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if you are going to do that you may as well bake your own bread, I do when aboard.

with Wooden boats all we ever are is custodians, and we have to do whats best for them in the long run, put right the bodges of the past and endeavor not to make bodges in the future. when she is done she will be a credit to your stewardship, and I am sure she will be ready for many more years of enjoyment.

my daughter had it a couple of weeks back and is still reporting feeling drained at the end of the day.

go electric - drink battery acid **** Disclaimer**** dont do this it may damage your health

before low tide it will be heading out toward the sea, after low tide it will be coming in from the sea. if you have to punch a tide, punching the incoming tide should be slightly less as you have the flow of the river with you, to counteract some of the incoming tide. if you go to great Yarmouth it can get even more confusing as the tide can be still flowing out of the Bure, while its rising, there is a period called low slack (about an hour long0 after low tide where the crossing of Breydon has neither tide against you, this is while the Bure outflows as that lags behind the tide, to head up the bure (if you have plenty of headroom, - or air draft as its called) you should aim to get there just after the end of slack, then you will have a gentle push all the way up the bure. if you need maximum head room, then its best to get there at low water, before slack

although I have tried several times to time my arrival at the junction of the rivers, or the new cut to coincide with tide times, its never that simple, the tide times are never spot on to the minute correct, so I have always ended up punching tide one way or the other, at least for a few minutes

in that case I hate to think what a pint of beer is going to cost in there.

it looks like you may be lucky with your dates with just a width restriction in place for most of your proposed trip.

here is the updated Broads Authority notice, restrictions and closures on the new cut until the end of April. https://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/419843/NTM-04-of-2022-River-Closure-and-width-restrictions-for-piling-works-at-Haddiscoe-Cut-Updated-12-April-2022.pdf Notice is also given that between Friday 01 April 2022 and Thursday 14 April 2022, Haddiscoe Cut will be open but width restrictions will remain in place for the second phase of the works. Due to additional works required to those advertised above, a width restriction will remain in place between Friday 15 April and Sunday 24 April 2022. A further closure of Haddiscoe Cut will be in place between Monday 25 April and Friday 29 April 2022. The channel in Haddiscoe cut will open on Saturday 30 April although a width restriction will remain in place until Friday 6 May 2022.

just a thought, but is the piling work on the new cut completed yet, there were some restrictions there that were supposed to go on for a few weeks. as for the tides, if you are going against the tide one way eg down the waveney then you should have it with you the other, Broads boats can punch the tide (slowly sometimes) but it shouldnt give any real problems other than additional fuel used.

both Lodden and Rockland can be iffy at low tide, but other than that I have generally had acceptable signal (both are OK if you can get an antenna high enough - I use a wifi hub with external antenna for data.

I think the point with Marthams is they only just scrape them through at anything under 6' at the bridge, 1/2" clearance is normal, getting 3" clearance is unusual. so if you are not used to it, it will always seem like they only just scraped through.

so the new voltage regulators arrived, and after a bit of testing I decided which one to use, the much bigger more robust units were chosen, this means mounting them standalone off the board, but I think that may be for the best these have a small LED display so you can read the input and output voltages, anyway today was a case of wiring them into the connectors, here is where my resolve not to repeat my plugging in mistake came back to bite me, to ensure I could not accidentally plug the battery in incorrectly, I had cut the pins off the output positive, only now that i was using an external voltage regulator, I needed those pins to plug into, Pooh was bothered again. still all it really meant was changing a socket for a plug, this done the lighting board was once again working, test time. of course this all took so long I didnt get any other lights wired in today, the model is now displaying her port side ready for work.

living next door to a property that gets rented ut to stag and hen does amongst other tenants, i have experienced the parties next door, its the hen do's all deciding to sit in the hot tub chatting away until 4am that are the worst, as its right outside my bedroom window, but live and let live, its usually just the first night, catching up with the friends not seen for months. so i let it ride.

we have I believe 2 of that type of power station on the national grid, first you need a good height difference to power a generator, next they are used to fill in the system with rapid response load (eg the ad break in the cup final where everyone puts the kettle on, the problem is that they can only provide power for a very short time

cant remember the term for it, but I know if you can stack 2 or more counters on a square, you can block players behind unless they stack 2 counters and throw a double (its also possible the terms we used at uckers at home were watered down to acceptable for children terms, its funny that I always assumed that uckers was a watered down version of the name to make it suitable for family play.

you could have volunteered to run the quiz in 2 weeks.

to appease the ladies, the dishwasher has gone on again with the dishwasher cleaner in it, (that was due to happen anyway) before it gets another load of washing up.

the answer is yes, flash riust, a few seconds with a scotchbrite pad cleaned that off though, and all traces of grease gone

no, they will be oiled as soon as they come out, or given a dunking in evaporust, then oiled, it will only be flash rust anyway

what?, I was only going to say all the oily bits are going in the dishwasher to be degreased. Now I know all the guys will understand where I am coming from, I was just worried it might upset the ladies, who think dishwashers are for knives and forks and dishes, or something.

plus of course the more complex it is, the more chances for it to go wrong.

you wait until I tell how I am going to clean and degrease some of the parts, it will shock the ladies of the forum.

I have an instruction manual, full of exploded diagrams, which is even better.

disassembled into liftable bits for cleaning