Oddfellow

It's not a link. It's a saved web page.

There is no "standard size" for tanks on any boat. Tanks are made to fit spaces and the weight needs to be balanced across the vessel to avoid severe listing to one side. Some boats may have a central tank, some will have diesel and water tanks of very similar capacities which will be mounted on opposite sides of the beam, some will have a water tank on each side which are connected to balance them. Obviously, if the boat is intended to berth a lot of people it would be expected to will carry a larger amount of water than a smaller one. Lady of Freedom had two large tanks under the rear decks. Way larger than the boat needed, but the weight was used for ballast to keep the stern end down. There is no "average". Sweet Freedom has a tank of about 38 gallons for 2 people, whilst Lady of Freedom, a boat initially designed to carry 4 people had about 100 gallon tanks and Fair Freedom for 10 people carried (at a guess) maybe 150 gallons across the beam in two tanks.

There are strict rules on where these vessels can navigate and, basically, it's nowhere near the bridge. They are told to go upstream and into Bridge Broad. There was lots of consulting with the BA rangers department before this opened for business.

The fact that the BA is now considering taking the Police to court for a report that revealed "the truth" by going beyond the remit of the report speaks volumes. The BA needs its cancer removing, fast.

The problem is that the BA uses it's planning department inappropriately. Rather than being a "fit for purpose" planning outfit, it's a weapon to be deployed in acts of retribution, retaliation, ethnic cleansing, whatever it thinks it can get away with and will pick fights that it knows it can't win safe in the knowledge that the opponent is likely to expend buckets of cash whereas the BA is largely carefree about it's own cash because it's public money.

The site is now owned by Landamores. Don't know what the sheds are used for.

The BA top management have a long-standing history of being remarkably vindictive and grudge holding. Its planning system is broken and has been for many years and the organisation is barely fit for purpose. It squanders public money like it's meaningless (because it is to them). This issue at Haddiscoe is as clear an example as you can get that there's a cancer at the top. It's been going on for a long time and the incompetence of the BA to issue a redacted email that could be unredacted (I know a little more about this than most) shows the lengths of untruths it will concoct to get its own way. This whole affair, as I understand it, is a result of failed negotiations over the lease of the land (which has had mooring upon it for a very long time as I am sure Vaughan can attest). It's vindictive in its motivation as it simply cannot be anything else.

Well, the A149 through Repps has about a 1/2 mile queue trying to get into the filling station now.

What a brilliant resource you are sharing there. Thank you. I remember those sheds as a child. I remember walking over the "bridges" between them and I remember looking at them in a much more dilapidated state about 16 years ago with a possible view to buying the site. I live up the top of the road and regularly walk down this way. Looks very different today.

This is going around Social; Media. It's worth reading.

AH, I see the problem here. I think you have the wrong understanding of the media. Well, most of it anyway. The media's role is to get you to read more, watch more, buy more. This is especially true of media that's in the hands of profit making organisations (and here I use the word "profit" to include propaganda). If the SUN can push the price of petrol up so that the scumbag petroleum companies increase profits and thus run more adverts and pay News Corp more money, that's their role. Don't ever fall into the trap of thinking that a newspaper or other media outlet is delivering news. It's delivering profit first and foremost and is very clever at disguising it as fact. Another big problem is that people see headlines and don't read the story. Most of us will be guilty of this. The headline's purpose is to attract you to a story and the story may be rather less sensational than the headline.

His English cousin, Jerry, was unavailable for the job.

Do you not think that a supermarket with a perfectly good logistics department is capable of not running out of bog paper? It was panic buying that lead to the loo roll shelves being empty in the first place. That fad started down under and got reported. There's a lot of blame going to the media for essentially "doing its job". If you write a book and put a cover on it that should be wiped with loo roll, you won't sell the book. If you write an article with a bad headline or a bad intro, nobody will read it. If you make a TV serial with a bad title, awful intro and poor story, nobody will watch it. The entire purpose of a headline is to grab someone's attention and get them to read on or listen on. You simply cannot blame the media for doing its job here. That's the lazy response. The cause of our current problems are The Pandemic, The Government response, Brexit and very specifically, the idiot public, many of whom I wouldn't trust to hold a door open.

There's a lot of blame going to the media for this. I say that's rubbish. I haven't seen a media report about fuel shortages. I have seen media reports that a handfull of BP stations are closed. Nobody has forced the proliferation of selfish aholes to block roads and running forecourts dry. I've abandoned a photography trip to Suffolk this weekend because I can't be guaranteed to get fuel for the mohome and further abandoned even a drive to Winterton because I need to be able to get my children to Norwich College each day next week and I am unsure of fuel availability to do that. That's a minor inconvenience. A major inconvenience is that (stupidly) the emergency services don't have their own supplies. Ambulances et al are struggling to find fuel whilst Eric Von ****** in the 1/4 mile queue for fuel has a coronary with the stress of not being able to put 10 litres of fuel in his take to get it to the full marker again. This must soon have a knock on effect for the HGV crisis that started this vicious circle; how long before road freight can't move because Karen from number 10 has filled her bath with Derv on the advice from "lood after yrself barry" from facebook?

I was going to start using a different deck paint product last year. I don't recall the name of it now, but it was similar to this: https://www.foxschandlery.com/kiwigrip-non-skid-paint-deck-system?ps=MjIzPTg5NDgmMjIyPTg3Nw==#223=8948&222=877 The reason I didn't was a discussion with the UK distributor who had been having some supply problems and told me that the shelf life of the product was pretty limited, so if I was to buy a few tins, they would need to be used within a certain time and if not would be spoiled. For me, that was a certain money loss as I could not, at the time, afford to get multiple decks prepped and sorted quickly. However, it might be an idea for your deck project. I am not sure that George at Ludham Bridge Boatyard isn't using something similar.

I didn't say I wouldn't flatten old paint and recoat. You have to be careful. You need to know what type of paint you have on the boat already before applying a new paint. 2 pack paints have an exothermic curing process. This means that they use a chemical reaction to generate heat. The result is a better bond to a properly prepared substrate and a longer life with greater scratch resistance. The problem is that the heat generated in the curing process can act like a hot-air paint stripper to an underlying single-pack paint. So, if you don't know what the existing paint is, applying two pack is a gamble unless you remove all the paint. Single pack paint can be applied to any surface but isn't as tough. Deck paint will need renewing regularly, especially if you don't make a good job of the prep and this is VERY hard on GRP decks with the anti-slip moulding in the gel as it's virtually impossible to get the paint out of the valleys without a sharp pick and a month of sundays at your disposal. A very high power pressure steam cleaner is often capable but few people have such an expensive machine (a good boat yard will have one though), but these can strip paint you want to leave in place too. Nothing that's worth-while is easy.

I can't imagine what you mean about pump access.......

There is a GRP safe paint remover that I can't remember the name of. That's because I found it simply didn't work. I will have it in one of my units somewhere. I could probably lay my hands on it if you wanted to try it. I have painted a lot of boats and there is no substitute that I have found for abrasives. Sorry, I know that's not the news you wanted. DO NOT USE NITROMORS.

I don't think they allow you to use Google from the black chair..... :-)

I bought hardly any Nanni parts due to the cost. I had contacts at various Kubota dealers who could provide all engine parts at a fraction of the Nanni cost.

That is a very simplistic take. Diesel bug thrives on the interface between the diesel fuel and the water layer. Whether or not you use FAME free diesel, there is likley to be water in your tank. It gets in off the deck filler and condensation and whilst it's true that the ethanol component of most diesel fuels on the river will also contribute to the problem, searching for and finding FAME free diesel will not prevent the problem. And, that's without considering the cleanliness of the yard's tank that's serving you the fuel or the tanker that delivered it to the yard. I am convinced that a tanker delivered 50-70 litres of water to one of my heating oil tanks last year as there's no way that the **&T that I pulled out of it that fouled a boiler had just been building up over time. I pumped gallons out of that tank, from the bottom using a purpose made pickup tube that, if present prior to the delivery, would have fouled the boiler pump yonks ago. My point being that the supply chain can be as much of a problem as your tank.

If this is in relation to the Natural Gas price rises, there should be no knock-on as Bottled Gas is a by-product of the petroleum industry: LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas. Incidentally, did you know that the odour is added to this otherwise odourless gas so that you can detect escapes? Did you also know that, unlike natural gas, it's heavier than air, hence incredibly dangerous in a boat because escaped gas just drops to the floor and bilges......

Sad news indeed. I haven't seen him for a while. He was always a lovely chap who I got on with very well. A terrible, sad loss.

There have been hybrid diesels for about 8 years now from Nanni........

One of the contributing factors to the closure of Freedom. Not to put too fine a point on it, Sick to the Back Teeth of nasty, entitled people. Never again will I work with the public.