grendel

I seem to recall there have been issues at thorpe green around this subject, not BA owned or run, but local council.

bearing in mind this applies just to the BA's own fleet, How long will it be before you are comfortably moored up, plugged into shore power to run a heater or boil the kettle, and an all electric BA launch, or other pulls up and demands you move or unplug so they can recharge their batteries, as i cant see them waiting their turn to get on the post. or you get to a mooring and find it occupied by a dredger that has pulled in for the night to recharge for the next day, I can forsee a lot of unhappiness occurring if this becomes the normal situation.

most places have a christmas moratorium on planned roadworks in december, so most roadworks will dissapear today, and spring up again in january.

all the ones I have spotted have been subject to the depredations of the hire user, and not repaired after, perhaps this is another result of not having a dedicated boat building team on site, or maybe they are just too busy to keep repairing them.

there are a couple of hydro twin lake stations just for this eventuality, they can be producing full power in just a few seconds, they let the water from the top lake power the turbines when necessary, and pump the water back up overnight when there is spare energy.

as of right now the wind cant be blowing as its only producing 0.76% of our energy, mind you thats more than solar at the moment.

I learned a neat heating solution today, on occasions lidls and Aldi sell heated car seat covers, these run at 12V and output around 50-60W of heat, now you dont just need to use these on car seats, you could for instance put one on the bed and warm your back and rear end. they consume about 5-6A, so if you used one for 10 hours overnight it would use 50-60Ah of battery power, a lot less than a small fan heater, as you are only heating yourself that is in contact with it, not the entire boat (I have also found that this will happily run off my portable solar power bank). I sincerely doubt you would need to run it for that length of time as it does get nice and warm. certainly an option I will be testing next year when aboard.

I was about to say that during the winter the BA will often ignore the 24 hour rule and allow people to stay for 48 hours before taking action at most of their 24 hour moorings.

the plastic takeaway tubs are also useful for small parts storage as they stack well, I have a ton of these awaiting use, and a ton more already in use.

I had the option to buy some for my air fryer, instead I bought 3x 1 litre pyrex bowls, £4.50 each, its a no brainer a 1 litre glass, reusable, and recycleable bowl for £4.50 or a £1 foil tray, if i use the bowl five times its paid for itself over a foil dish, and it just goes in the dishwasher to clean it.

thats not the air draft, its the cabin roof draft

I have a 650W one from energizer, i used it on the boat this year and basically with the 100W solar panel it never got below 78%, and I was using it for all my laptop, dvd player, phone charging etc, I have also used it at home to charge my cordless tool batteries. the only thing I will say, is secure your solar panel to the boat - they dont float, and the wind will catch them, just at the wrong time.

no, all I know is I can get under everything but potter heigham at 6 foot, and potter heigham at 6 foot 3"

the brass plaque on the dashboard of Broad Ambition displays the varied options for height (except the mast is now taller)

as i understand it, it was just the boat that was sold.

sold, there was a message on facebook saying so.

actually, I dont watch TV except on rare occasions such as the Queens funeral, and maybe Charles coronation, so I dont miss something I never do anyway, I have way too many other things keeping me busy and spending my time on.

I dont know, but in mine crumpets are just a few minutes with the cheese on top for the last 60 seconds

I dont take a TV, never had reception problems.

on one of the main routes through canterbury, they keep putting up road closed signs, so far they have managed to shut one exit from a roundabout for two weeks, now every weekend they are shutting the other exit, the problem is whichever exit they shut the diversion is via the other exit, the other problem is that when i do my shopping i go to shops down both exits, so now to get to both shops, its a 2 mile diversion to get to the other shop, also there is a sneaky shortcut that goes past the end of my road that gets round the weekend closures, also the signeage is the same whichever route is shut, so it stays there all week when neither road is shut, confusing yes, and to get out of my road i am faced with queues of traffic

I have a small electric one on a pole for trimming my apple tree, I also know a lot of people who have gone over to the big 48V ones with standard size blades (18-20"), both because they are quieter,(not needing to run while between cuts, and dont use fuel, they charge a spare battery while cutting from a portable power bank, and can keep going all day just swapping between batteries, they use them both for cutting down trees and clearing brush.

maybe bought on a different waterway and transported by a company not local to the broads.

low loader forgot to check his air draft, maybe he should have checked with the bridge pilot?

as has been mentioned before the availability of fuel and pumpouts on the southern broads is getting to be an issue, with large distances between areas of availability, brundall is i believe the only place for either on the yare, and other than that you have beccles or burgh castle (I will be happy if proved wrong as long as you let me know the other locations.)

with the son having won a big order to build boats for Richardsons, and the parents presumably retiring (or reducing their duties to just the land based accommodation), there was presumably nobody left with the time to run the busy hire fleet, thats how i see the announcement anyway.