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    Diesel Emissions.

    in Broads Chat

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    8 hours ago, LondonRascal said:

    The thing is marine engines (especially in small river craft) are just car and van engines at their heart the base engines on which they are built are many years old - it is why we are only now beginning to see common rail diesel engines entering the smaller marine engine market, yet these have been the mainstay of cars and vans for several years now.

    I think change will come. It always does, one day.  We are aware that shipping moves many thousands of containers in one bulk carrier and they get along a fair rate of knots as they cross the worlds seas. They also pump out masses of emissions and while it is all well and good to say for the tonnage they carry per mile verses the emissions they produce for that it is not that bad, it is still bad what comes out their funnel's and there is no getting away from that. A lot of this is because heavy oil is burnt when in open seaways because it is cheaper.

    Despite this, there are now murmurings about how things could be improved so if that is just beginning to be talked about for shipping I could see recreational boating finding itself being looked at for emissions one day too. I short don;t rule it out. 

    I doubt anything too drastic will suddenly happen, you may get the Broads Authority want to adjust Tolls to take account of engine type, age and horsepower and calculate some crude emissions scale based on such and charge accordingly. But the bigger issue I can see is as country after country line up to ban diesel cars, and sales of such are falling through the floor, where would the base engines come from that the likes of Beta Marine and Nanni marinise?

    I could see that being the bigger issue where they get harder to source and cost more whereby the likes of Toyota might eventually set an end date for the manufacture of diesel engines and then Ford, GM and so on follow suit. I am sure the Chinese would only be too happy to step in with the tooling to produce these older bases but would the buyers of Beta, Nanni, Vetus etc be so keen to buy what they may see as a cheaper 'clone' of a once reputable engine manufacture?

    On a closed river system that the Broads is, I could see one day a proper infrastructure of electric charging points - in the meantime I think what will happen sooner than any of that is the resurgence of small, perhaps even turbo charged, clean burning petrol engines on boats. Morden fuel injected engines don't suffer quite the same woes in damp environments, are very quiet, offer a good amount of power for their size and weight leaving only the big elephant in the room to contend with: Highly flammable fuel in large amounts on boats.

     

    I could be (and fairly likely am) wrong but I thought all the big ocean going boats (container ships, ferries etc) had to be fitted with ‘scrubbers’ these days to bring the emissions down? This was, I believe, one of the main reasons Brittany Ferries was decommissioning some of their older fleet (which they’re now not)

    A Bite To Eat

    in Broads Chat

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    15 minutes ago, vanessan said:

    That’s a good theory. I cook fish and chips and even homemade burgers and chips at home and they are definitely not fast food! 

    I had to add all the ‘non-plates’ as living just outside Brighton more or less anything goes...

    A Bite To Eat

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    2 hours ago, ranworthbreeze said:

    Hi Simon,

    Fish & chips hardly comes under the heading of fast food, when ever think of fast food I think of a dodgy burger or MacDonald's version of a so called breakfast. 

    The Chippy at Loddon is well worth a try, the same can be said for the one at Blofield (near to the school).

    Regards

    Alan

    I tend to favour the theory; does it come on a plate (also plank/slate/insert other non disposable culinary substrate here) if yes then it’s not fast food, this does get blurry though when you get a burger, or fish and chips at a pub, but no rule is infallible...

    A Bite To Eat

    in Broads Chat

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    Big fan of the Bridge at Acle, nothing out of this world, but just decent pub grub, decent portions, sensible pricing and a great welcome, we will be making a point of stopping there in October, also rated the Lion @ Thurne, so will be heading there too, and hopefully the white horse @ Neatishead this year as the tide times are slightly more favourable for Omega and Ludham Bridge...

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    Lads Week

    in Broads Chat

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    Griff, you’ll have to let us know your itenary nearer the time and we’ll try and coincide somewhere along the way, presume you’ll be heading South? We’ll be staying North, but sure our paths will cross.

    Lads Week

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    1 hour ago, LondonRascal said:

    5th to 13th October this year.

    Exactly what I was hoping, we’re up on Omega again 6th-13th, so will hopefully see you about!

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    To Survey Or Not

    in The Broadscot Lounge

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    Can’t speak for a boat, as I’ve never brought one, but in terms of houses, never had a survey done, didn’t see the point, House had been there for 200 years in that instance, hadn’t fallen down, and I have a useful network of friends who cover most of the trades, so should something untoward come to the surface, I’ll make the most of what I have and deal with it.

    I guess it’s similar to Robin’s situation where he knows what he’s looking at, and has a network of friends who can help him if it goes wrong.

    Also, small matter of the fact it’s his money, and therefore his choice.

    The building surveyors I know have so many get-out clauses in their contracts, they can walk away from pretty much anything anyway.

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    Independence - Updates | Maintenance & Care

    in General Discussion

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    I'm sure this has probably been thoroughly investigated, but I wonder whether the controllers are out of sync with each other and need recalibrating/resetting. I know this happens on car electric windows from time to time (not an entirely different set-up really) as they have up/down (forwd/aft) and you can have multiple switches operating the same motor (think drivers side control, operating pass side, and rear windows).

    Just a thought, as I say I'm sure it's been investigated already. I had to reset the windows on one of my cars the other day, and it struck me it was a similar sort of issue.

    Independence - Updates | Maintenance & Care

    in General Discussion

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    I need to catch up, still only half way through part II, the printing Industry having been at a stand still more or less since November has gone mental this last couple of weeks (at least for us, sadly not others as we lose yet another few from the landscape).

    Like the name of the rib, my grandmother was always known as Peggy, despite being called Marguerite Ellen, never knew why...

    Independence - Updates | Maintenance & Care

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Londonlad1985 said:

    This was a pleasant thread at the beginning. But people seem determined to pick arguments and post "comment bait" I've obviously taken the bait, but I hate waking up to 20 e mail notifications telling me how petty the internet is.

    Happy Tuesday everyone. 

    I think it’s the time of year, as someone’s already mentioned, people can’t get out on the rivers and get frustrated, and ratty. I’ve noticed the same on a popular BBQ group I’m a member of.

    This of course isn’t an excuse for bad manners, merely an observation 

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    Sea Sickness - Oh Joy And Glee!

    in The Norfolk and Suffolk Coast

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    Luckily I don’t suffer on Ferries (good job being mother lives in France, the 12 hr Portsmouth - St Malo crossing is fairly regular) but we did have one crossing last year where it was very rough, and the captain apparently made the decision to sail ‘across’ the storm for 4 hours so we could have it behind us for the remaining 8 hours, I was in the top bunk and spent the night holding on, and alternately being crumpled up at one or t’other end.

    one of my ex’s dad had a motor sailer about 35-40’ out of Broadstairs or Margate and I was hanging like a rusty gate on that thing...

    Independence - Updates | Maintenance & Care

    in General Discussion

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    So happy to see this happy conclusion to an amazing adventure which Robin (and Charlie, Howard etc) have let us be part of.

    Robin, you’ve done something most of us only begin to dream off, fair play mate, I hope it’s everything you wanted and more, and if you’re not bored of visitors, maybe Ems and I will come and say hi at the latter part of the season.

    well done all involved, you’ve represented the friendly forum in the most amazing way possible!

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    Independence - Updates | Maintenance & Care

    in General Discussion

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    Keep up the good work guys,  sorry I didn't get to meet you all in Brighton, was out celebrating the 3rd night of my birthday (it became 4 in total) Griff, you're a hero, and hope Robin recovers soon enough, very brave to tell people something he didn't need to.

    I know I struggle on anything smaller than a cross channel ferry on the sea when it's rough so understand how it feels.

    God speed and best of luck for the remainder of the journey.

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    2018 Calendar - In Case You Are Wondering..

    in The Broadscot Lounge

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    8 hours ago, VetChugger said:

    Hmmmm, seems I'm going to be the grit in the calendars vaseline!

    Afraid I'm not impressed. This may well be because I have been spoilt by previous Broads versions. They were always glossy pictures (I know some prefer mat) also, a separate page for the days so more room for entries and notes.

    i took the measurements off a previous hard copy of the NBN calendar I was supplied, so layout is verbatim that layout, as I’ve learnt from many years of working in the design industry one cannot please all the people, all the time, sorry it hasn’t hit the mark for you.

     

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