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  1. I can't tell you how pleased I am to hear that the disadvantages of led 'tunnel' lights are being recognised by a user of one. I quite understand why they are attractive as it sounds like a great idea to be able to really light up the tunnel ahead with such a powerful lamp - until you meet one coming the other way!
    3 points
  2. I take ages and ages to boot up. My laces are miles too long. Aldi boots. I have to wind them round and round the back, in and out of fairleads ending up with a massive chunky triple bow just to use them up so I don't trip over them.
    2 points
  3. I think the problem here is that the OP is not managing the thread properly. I'm relatively new to the forum but you have to learn the ebb and flow. After asking a fairly obvious question which I think the OP answered by post 5, he then disappeared for a few hours which was a bad mistake. Do not post then go AWOL. This lot will have turned lead into gold by the time you get back. If you do go AWOL, then when you get back, keep repeating the question. This lot are like goldfish with an attention span of the last 15 posts at most. The main problem though is no seems to care about London!
    2 points
  4. Why should the consent [if needed] last only until the first flooding? Are you suggesting the boat will end up on the land? It happens, of course, but is preventable. I have been mooring my boats on tidal waters since 1990, with around a 5’ range between neaps and springs, with occasional flooding of the bank, at times up to 14” deep over the bank twice a day. Once in a very rare while other people’s boats have hung up on the bank [and sunk as the tide went out], but that should not happen with the appropriate cautions being taken. Indulging in silliness, I would agree that CaRT consent would be required for any planing; aside from speed limits having to be broken to achieve this, other relevant byelaws might militate against the practice. I have seen a photo of a narrowboat built in Brentford by a former business partner of mine, planing down the Thames with a massive outboard at the back. Frankly, I would think getting a boat up on the plane would be even easier on a flooding river if you pointed in the right direction.
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  6. Cool. Its impossible to quote costs including any borrowings. Personaly with the one boat living on has been cheaper than the costs of the house. The difference in housing bills are enormous all five of my kids are hugely different as my grandsons is. Glad I'm not young
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  7. I believe BOAT stands for Bring Out Another Thousand. i would still think it's cheaper than keeping a house in good fettle.
    1 point
  8. That makes for an interesting situation. Most boaters would still regard that as a no-go area for mooring so they will be in nobodies way and might possibly improve security in that area. If the rules are to be applied fairly then CaRT will have to move them on but this will only displace them to other bits of the K&A where they will be more in the way and possibly more visible to local residents. ..............Dave
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  9. Happy Birthday to Great Grandma Smelly!
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  11. This would tell you when your coal scuttle was full without knowing how big it was, but might not be right as you empty it. Mike the Boilerman would have two and neither would work properly. This would definitely glow, but folk would argue for hours about whether it made their boat warmer or not... and no-one would ever really know.
    1 point
  12. Not on an appropraite waterway, they are not!
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  13. Fair enough! You weren't also drinking it after filtering it through bread, I hope! The sailors amongst us might be interested to learn that, when the brass cannons outside a building I worked from needed cleaning, the job went to a civilian contractor who cleaned and lacquered them. A few months later, they looked as bad as ever. There was something to be said for 'men under punishment' with a tin of brasso or 'wadpol'!
    1 point
  14. Please don't be tempted to bring faith into the argument anyone, or you'll upset the radical Ecofan fans. They'll come and blow up your boat, but only a tiny amount. You'll might not even notice it, which is just as well because you won't find any solid evidence to prove it.
    1 point
  15. Only if you discharge the batt to 10.5V. Otherwise it's just a distraction that confuses people.
    1 point
  16. Tut tut. No wonder you had to hand in your bell bottoms! I feel a rescrub might be in order.
    1 point
  17. Me neither, life is way too short. I reckon some folks would probably polish brass if you let em, sick world innitt.
    1 point
  18. Something on the scale of 1963 would absolutely cripple this country beyond belief. The manual workers are not available to keep anything moving on the ground. Distribution chains for all retail would fall apart and there is no longer the stocks of grit /salt that would be needed to keep roads open for more than a limited period. It will happen again, 2010 was a small warning - a notable event in our recent memories but nowhere near the length of time or depth of cold/snow that 1963 gave us.
    1 point
  19. Don't tilt it down, because the reflection off the water is also dazzling. Tilt it upwards to illuminate the tunnel "roof".
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  21. And how long to get 3 coats of bitumen on? More than that if drying times adhered to. Normal stuff should be left overnight before recoating and 36-48 hrs to dry before wetting. I don't care anyway for me keelblack was an easy option.
    1 point
  22. Mine was in on a Saturday morning, finished by Wednesday night, water back in dock overnight Friday. Where the time saving does occur is that by the time you have been round the boat and finished one coat you can start the next one immediately rather than having to wait 24hrs so 4 coats in a day is easily doable.
    1 point
  23. Remove it in September, store in a safe place til spring and then refit to the stove.
    1 point
  24. I've come late to this topic as I was in hospital just over a week, getting home on Thursday afternoon, and quite busy since catching up on things. As the ad under discussion has disappeared, I suppose it's doomed to stay off topic so I'll say this. Routemasters, like other buses, should be all red if run by LT, and some other local colour scheme if not. If I go down to Eastbourne, I expect to see a yellow and green Southdown bus, not a red one. Apart from Cliff Richard taking one to Greece, were Routemasters much used outside London?, I don't know. As to buses sinking, a Routemaster is going to go down faster than most being open at the back.
    1 point
  25. This video of Tench at the 2017 event says you are not remembering correctly...... Not necessarily - Minnow seldom attends that one, I think!
    1 point
  26. Although it doesn't give away too many clues in the external pictures, I think "Titan" may be wooden or possibly GRP topped, not steel. Does it say, anywhere? Whilst what looks lik horizontal planking on the back is often faked in steel, I can't imagine why it would have internal beams across the cabin top if it were a normal steel one - they are hardly decorative are they, so probably there to hold the top up. If my suspicions are correct, it's an eye-watering price for a more than 40 yera old non steel topped boat. Also if interested, find out what Parsons gearbox it has, and talk to someone like RLWP of this forum about potential issues and likely availability of spares. I would imagine that for most Parsons boxes they don't come new off the shelf! No opinion on Evelyn - it looks so horrible externally, I couldn't bring myself to look, (!), but if you are looking at both 1976 and 2000 built boats, I reallly think you need to sort your thinking out on likely differences between purchasing 41 yeras old and 17 yeras old, before investing too much time in any particular example.
    1 point
  27. Use the moon. That's what I did for my evening cruise yesterday, in the proper dark. I could even see the stars. Plus proper nav lights of course.
    1 point
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  31. When I bought my boat it was blacked with Intertuf 16 which is bituminous. Since then I've used Rylards with no adverse reaction. As Tony says, the number after Intertuf is important although it may likely enough be 16 if it's common blacking. A diesel damped rag will turn black on bitumen iirc. Incidentally, Rylards Premium is thinner so penetrates well, is shiny and slightly more diesel resistant than other bitumen. Rytex is thicker and a more matte finish. Folk often use a combination of coats using the two.
    1 point
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  33. The minimum recommended diameter pulley for the "A" section belt of that type (Fenner Twistlink) is quoted as 80mm or 3 inches. Someone at Fenner obviosly cann't convert from mm to inches! They really don't like anything smaller, especialy when well tensioned.
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  35. Can't access their instructions at present as on mobile but basically pressure wash, wire brush off any loose remains, paint with fertan, wait 24hrs, wash off remains of fertan, then you are good to go. That lot took me 2.5 days then 2 days to get 6 costs on (it dries quickly) followed by 2.5 days drying. The most important bits are cleaning off the fertan and at least 48hrs drying time. When the boat is out again in 2019 I will let everyone know just how good it was or wasn't. J
    1 point
  36. Myself and my neighbor used keelblack so far so good but full and proper preparation is the secret
    1 point
  37. For what it's worth, I'm STILL planning to use keelblack - (http://www.keelblack.co.uk ) having met quite few people this year who swear by it.
    1 point
  38. I use a link belt with a similar set up to you and have no problems, but the belt I use is a different construction to that shown in the pictures. Have just checked and type I use is called 'twist link belting'. edit ' Fenner twist link belting '
    1 point
  39. You haven't wired up your EcoFan wrong have you?
    1 point
  40. No, the capacity doesn't reduce with temperature. Only the rate that the battery can give up charge reduces. Well OK it depends on how you measure the capacity. Capacity is normally measured by draining the battery at a constant current corresponding to some proportion of the AH capacity until it reaches the terminating voltage of typically 10.5v. A cold battery will reach that terminating voltage sooner, because towards the end the chemicals can't react fast enough. But the charge isn't lost, its just sleeping! If you leave the battery to rest and/or drain it slower, the remaining charge can be extracted. In other words, you can get just as much charge out of a cold battery as a hot one, it just takes longer if its cold. So in the case of the voltage check, you just have to leave it longer for the true open circuit voltage to become apparent. Since boat batteries are not normally fully discharged at a constant rate, that measure of capacity is fairly irrelevant. Certainly if the desire is not to go below 50% for cycle life reasons, there is no need to take temperature into account to decide how much AH can be taken out.
    1 point
  41. I think you need to think about that statement. Nick says the same (perhaps that’s where you got it from?) and he’s wrong.
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  42. They do indeed, and make a terrible mess too. I wonder if I can find a picture? Richard Here you go:
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