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Is it such an inconvenience though? Anybody who moors on a lock landing has volunteered their boat as a temporary pontoon as far as I'm concerned.

Thats just a web of flies

Just been driving along a motorway close to one of those places where they have big propellors in the fields, and one of them had a door in the base open, and I swear I could see a Morso in the bottom of it (a black one).

Taking more than his fair Cher of the resources eh!

I thought it relevant to the references to cast steel, obviously I was wrong.

I thought it worth at least a greenie? .....glad someone got it!

The sodium glas battery is only at the 'proof of concept' stage at the moment. It may never get out of the lab. Noises being made that are sorting the cathode problem. Not sure it will be goodenough?

....................................Let me stop you right there.This is a family forum

But we'd look daft if it turned out it was a single hander who did themselves a serious injury while working the lock. That's why it pays to establish the circumstances before laying into someone. JP

Perhaps Carlt studied physics with Bluestringpudding on the planet Clanger. Clearly a case for an OFSTED inspection and special measures. There can be no argument that both the colour and finish of a surface make a huge difference to its ability to radiate heat. Wood stoves do rely largely on convection, but it is the radiated heat element that warms your knees from the other side of the room, it is the radiated heat that warms the fabric of the cabin, especially at low levels where the warm convected air struggles to reach and it is the radiated heat that makes the cabin feel cosy. I have a Wallas convector heater that heats up quickly, is clean, very efficient and cheap to run, and yet I choose to lug coal a 1/4 of a mile to my boat, spend a great deal of time riddling, disposing of ash, and dusting the shelves, simply because my Squirrel stove produces a much 'nicer' heat, and that difference is down to heat radiation. However, if you don't trust science and prefer style over performance, then you enjoy your brightly coloured stove! Perhaps Carlt studied physics with Bluestringpudding on the planet Clanger. Clearly a case for an OFSTED inspection and special measures. There can be no argument that both the colour and finish of a surface make a huge difference to its ability to radiate heat. Wood stoves do rely largely on convection, but it is the radiated heat element that warms your knees from the other side of the room, it is the radiated heat that warms the fabric of the cabin, especially at low levels where the warm convected air struggles to reach and it is the radiated heat that makes the cabin feel cosy. I have a Wallas convector heater that heats up quickly, is clean, very efficient and cheap to run, and yet I choose to lug coal a 1/4 of a mile to my boat, spend a great deal of time riddling, disposing of ash, and dusting the shelves, simply because my Squirrel stove produces a much 'nicer' heat, and that difference is down to heat radiation. However, if you don't trust science and prefer style over performance, then you enjoy your brightly coloured stove!

To the OP. It's very pleasing that you are receptive to advice. so many ask for advice and then object when it is not what they wanted to hear! So, please, keep the questions coming, there is hundreds of years' worth of experience on this forum.

Well it's now mine. I seriously doubt it it is worth a serious amount of money but I don't care. I wanted it and got it and I love it. It's an original Chesterfield Canal windlass. I am told it's wrought iron I also bought a haggis! I am trying to work out how to share a picture of it when I am only on my phone

Thats where she's going wrong. No use burning bags, unless of course they are knitted.

I wouldn't touch it with yours, let alone mine.

I have found over years of use that just whacking more fuel on fire and/or opening the air thingy at the bottom everywhere gets mooch otter, just sayin like.

That's the one. (My opinion of it is pretty close to thebfg's )

You left off dreamer

I thought it almost, but not quite goodenough for a greenie

Surly you would leave a note if it was an emergency, concidering it was tied up and locked? Lets pray it wasnt there today with the 2 wide beams i passed on that section today

Oh go on then.

Is that allowed, making the wife sleep under the mattress?

Once you'd removed the pea?

So blocking a lock mooring when there is nowhere elts to tie up and from the previous lock cant see the other lock leaving a boat blocking a lock landing (and had i been a wide beam) blocking the lock too this is ok with you? That was the point of my posting this. A there are signs be it questionable as i was expecting it to say winter moorings B there was plenty of mooring below and above the next lock. C blocking the lock landing and lock. If it was an emergency why would you take 3 lines off. And the opposite side dispite the signs the boat would be in no ones way. For me a single boater this time it couldnt have been more in the way. I also add not that i would but i would expect to be moaned about if i moored like this.

You could get the Rolling Stones to do it

A note on that hydrometer... They are lovely to use but not that accurate or repeatable. I did a back to back with two of these units and an optical device. I think I remember that mine read about 1.285 when the other, and the optical, said about 1.275. There was also a repeatability issue but this can be reduced with careful use. The unit works best if kept upright, and the compensating disc tends to have a fair bit of stiction. They are quick and easy use so its worth taking two or three readings from each cell at first till you have got the technique for repeatable results. ...............Dave

THIS ^^^^^^ Unless yours is a 6V system which is exceptionally unlikely. If its a 24 volt system then four times the single Trojan battery voltage. The hydrometer. I think that when you suck sufficient acid into the devise the round "scale" will rotate. I think the reading is taken from the line moulded into the red plastic that is at about 7 o'clock by the 1.110 reading. You will need to keep the suck up tuber vertical otherwise I suspect it will alter the reading. That is supposition based omn experience because I have not instructions. Take and not readings from each of the three cells in a battery. If any cell produces cloudy or coloured acid the cell and thus the battery is faulty or very soon will be. All cells should read within 0.03 of each other if there is this difference or more then the low cell is probably faulty but give them a good charge, allow to cool and retest. The next step really requires you to compensate for temperature but within typical UK off charge temperatures it should be near enough to just take a reading. 1.300 = about fully charged * Around 1.200 ish = about half charged * 1.100 = fully discharged* * However the degree of sulphation will alter these readings. The more sulphation the lower the reading will be for any given state of charge. To asses the degree of sulphation take a rested voltage reading and compare the state of charge that indicates to what the hydrometer says. The greater the difference the more sulphation. NOTE - do not flick acid about, keep it off your clothes etc. If you get any on your cloths then even if you flood the area with water it is still likely to burn holes in the fabric. If you need to mop any acid up be aware that when on rag or paper it can spontaneously ignite when it dries so when done rinse the rag/paper in lost of water and dispose of while still very wet. If you get it on the skin it may well sting and go red, I have not known it to actually burn through skin but it certainly hurts when on places like the inner wrists etc. Wash off with lost of water if you do get any on skin. If in an eye its bad news so wash out and seek urgent medical attention.

In our case Ecofan was sat on a centrally sited Villager Puffin angled backwards into a short corridor leading to the rear bedroom. The difference was quite noticeable during very cold weather, don't know the actual temp difference but it changed an uninviting cold bedroom into a welcoming one. I don't know if anyone has tried one with the same layout as us but I think it's intrinsic to the debate/argument. Trying to prove one way or the other whether Ecofans work is pointless, no conclusion can ever be reached IMO because it seems to me all results are dependant on individual boats and conditions. Feel free to ridicule me!

A Thermos flask is a wonderful thing to have. It can keep things cold as well as hot. Both lovely hot soup and a choc-ice for afters for example.

But I presume you agree with the limited time on visitor moorings as they do make sense in busy areas. So how would you suggest CRT deal with the over stayers for the boaters that are not playing fair?

We went to the Floyd exhibition at the V&A last month, where about 50(or maybe it just seemed that way) of his guitars were on display.

Fred Karno of Circus fame ,had it built and used it for Entertainment purposes.D Gilmour has owned it for several Decades. It is named ASTORIA

I would struggle to believe there is a boater who hasn't infringed the letter of those requirements. That's why it all needs a degree of sensible interpretation and just maybe a little bit of tolerance. JP

"Oh yes they would"..... Seriously, if you read the report closely, you will see they take 56 seperate temperatures at various places round the room. To give the reader an indication of these temperatures, you create a heat map (as per the diagrams) from the 56 readings. This is typical of heat map simulation. You have 56 actual temperature points - you can then using the simulation software predict the temps at any point in between if you know some other data - such as air flow. This 'simulation' has been used for years in really critical industries - we used it in work to check the design of steam cracker furnaces prior to building a $1Bn industrial plant. Based on a number of measured temperatures you can accurately predict the unmeasured temperatures in between. It is interesting there has been little discussion on the paper - and most respondants have gone over to the other thread! I am still thinking it might be a spoof. In my career I both wrote and peer reviewed many papers and I would not be happy to put my name to this one. If you write a patent, you HAVE TO put in sufficient data to make it so that anyone 'skilled in the field' can reproduce your experiments and final data. Papers do not have that restriction but it is good practice to help the reader understand what you have done. For me in this paper, there is a big piece missing and that is a flavor of the recorded data - and not just the final calculated data. Therefore if I was writing it, I would have included a number of pairs of graphs (with and without fan) of the key temperature sensor readings with time, and at least included the runs where the extremes of fuel differential useage were seen. I then would have produced the heat diagrams for these runs for comparison. Without this data it is impossible to determine if the writers were missing so key variables that could wreck the final results. In the writers defence, they were not trying to demonstrate 'thermal comfort' (which is probably our only interest) so maybe that data would not be considered important, but in that case where is the data on fuel useage, ie which runs (and how often) did they need to refuel etc? So much information has been omitted to make it suspicious. On balance I would say it is a very poor paper (but I have very high standards). Is it a spoof? I dont know......but my personal experience does seem to accept the 2 heat maps published match up to with how our fan performs.

Top marks for the 24v system....

Things have move on a bit since that 1950s design! Although flying open cockpit on a calm sunny evening can be very pleasant!

As an aside, the sign is a very odd one. Despite the CRT logo, it says "CRT have requested". I suspect it has been made and put there by a local, not offiially by CRT, otherwise why not just "no mooring in this pound". "In line with usual boating etiquette?" What's all that about then? I call "bluff" on this sign.

Write a complaint to all the stove manufacturers that use any other colour, then Oh look - I have shiny white tiles behind my stove all the way up to the ceiling. The cumulative effect of those and my stove in whatever colour the stove is painted is probably better than the equivalent matt black painted stove without the selective surface behind.

and it is even more basic skoolboy fizzicks that room heaters work through convection more than radiation. "Radiators" is a misnomer. A black heater may well be radiating heat more effectively but emissivity of thermal radiation is not the main way to heat a room. Halogen and fan heaters are true "radiators" which is why they only warm you up if you are sat directly in front of them and an Ecofan wouldn't turn if sat on top of them. Painting your stove white or silver will not reduce it's ability to heat a room by convection by any (barely) measurable degree except by adding a very thin insulating layer. Putting a silver or white board behind it though will heat the room immediately in front of it more effectively (which is why halogen heaters have a reflector behind the heat source). Worrying about radiated heat is only really an issue if you want to keep heat out which is why those screens for keeping cars cool are silver on the outside.

Didn't buy any of mine. It's who you know! That snakey shanked one looks like it should work a winch of sorts - not something you could tuck under your jacket or belt comfortably. But if it's 'Chesterfield', and you love it - that's what counts.

You boil people?

And yet the whole point of a burner is to radiate heat not retain it so the (marginally) more efficient colour scheme would be black on the inside and white or silver on the outside thereby absorbing heat from the fire and kicking it out into the boat. The marginal difference allows aesthetics to play a role too... Just like the teapot.

It's a bit of a pointless question really. A bit like asking what's the point of having a cat. If you like having a fan on your stove then that IS the effect. If you like having a cat (or dog) around, what is the point of that? Answer, the same. A stove fan is rather like having a pet around in your bote.

If that is your real plan for use I would include a place for a built in diesel genny in the shell build, most are raw water cooled so mud box etc as well. You have 2 weeks to sort it

Maybe that's the answer, make them fish on the side where the fish are. They wouldn't be on a mooring and they wouldn't need to spend so much money on silly long poles.

Please take care! Messing about with the aerodynamic efficiency of these devices can have disastrous results. The are set in the factory to produce little or no draught whatsoever but bend the blades and they can turn into a hurricane producing monster.

The sort left on the floor at the end of a boot sale, rusty, knackered and not even worth the scrap value

If you combine this with dressing like Kirk Douglas' Spartacus you will be feared by all and treated with great respect and deference.