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18 hours ago, annv said:
Hi Cal in which case you haven't got a combined charger/inverter which is safer and a lot less money two items takes up more space, more wiring, boat yard would go for combined one, safer/less money/less space. John
No we have separate units which we are happy with. if either breaks we replace that one part rather than both.
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11 minutes ago, finny said:
Out of season boating is vastly underrated. November is a brilliant month for boating the whole of the broads just seem so peaceful. No fussing getting a mooring or a decent meal even though the nights draw in it became one of our favourite times to visit the broads and still is
Finny
We love winter cruising on our own boat but it is set up properly for it unlike some of the draughty hire boat designs.
Would we hire in November? I guess we would but we would choose the boat design carefully and avoid one with sliding roof or canopies.
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48 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
You would think this should have been a very simple issue for the boatyard to sort out. If the batteries are not being charged by the alternator its not hard to work through the setup to suss out where the problem is.
Agreed.
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1 hour ago, annv said:
Hi Cal They don't work that way, if shore power is present the inverter is switched off automatically, the charger will only charge the batteries, you will get mains power to the sockets, if shore power is switched of the inverter switches on and provides mains power from the battery's, the charger IF BATTERIES NOT CONNECTED will provide 12 volt power from shore power until the shore power is switched off this is for when batteries are removed you can still run the 12volts side ie winter lay up, the charger will only work when shore power is on. John
Depends how the boats are wired up. If that is how it is supposed to work on that boat then something else is very amiss.
I know with our boat we have to check before we switch the inverter on that we have switched off the battery charger!!
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1 hour ago, Cal said:
Sounds like an alternator problem in that case.
Just thought about this further. If you had the inverter switched on and the battery charger switched on then depending on how the boat was wired it could well have been trying to charge the batteries from themselves which would explain why the alternator couldn't charge the batteries quickly enough and why they were flat even after cruising.
If that is the case then the boat isn't really set up for novice hirers who would not understand the boats electrical systems!
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5 minutes ago, 750XL said:
My apologies, my technical knowledge isn’t that good (as you can tell).
Either way, the batteries wouldn’t charge despite cruising with the engine 6+ hours a day
Sounds like an alternator problem in that case.
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12 hours ago, 750XL said:
I’ll hold out on a full review until Waveney River Centre have responded to my email.
But in short, the batteries wouldn’t charge properly via the inverter which meant we couldn’t use the oven/hob/microwave/kettle/toaster for almost half the holiday - presumably the point where the shore power charged batteries finally went flat. Disappointing for a £900 boat, along with the additional costs of having to eat out + half a fridge of wasted food.
Looking at previous reviews of this boat dating back to August on Hoseasons, it doesn’t seem like an isolated one off issue like we were led to believe...! Disappointing.
Batteries are not meant to charge via the inverter!
The inverter changes 12v power from the batteries to 240v power. You can not charge the batteries via the inverter as that is just taking power from the batteries not adding it!!
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I like how they have filmed it on a nice calm day. Not once have we been over that bar and it has been that calm
The channel looks to have straightened out a lot since we last visitied.
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People thought we were mad leaving our berth this evening in the wind. But we were wind off from our mooring and snatching on the ropes which would not have made for a comfortable evening.
So we upped sticks and travelled the half hour to the next village which is much more sheltered. Still not calm by any stretch of the imagination but with the wind on the nose it will be far more comfortable.
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1 hour ago, Mouldy said:
Wonder how many hire craft will not be back at their home base tomorrow as a result. Not saying that closing it is wrong, but how many hirers have not taken the potential for closure into consideration when planning their trip.
The yards must come across this all the time. I know we have cocked up before when we hired from Barnes and decided to moor the "wrong" side of the bridge for our last evening rather than in the yard.
Of course come 8am when we set off to take the boat back the bridge gauge said no!
Rang the yard up and they sent a lad down on his bike to have a look if we could in fact get back. He drove the boat (Joy) up to the bridge and then disappeared out of the front door. It was very close. So close that the lad and the OH walked it through rather than driving it.
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I think it is safe to say that Christmas won't be "normal" this year. There certainly will not be any large family gatherings allowed.
We have resigned ourselves to Chrismas this year being just us two and the dog. I'm sure we will make it special anyway.
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I'm intrigued as to why an older and therefore generally considered wiser old person was in McDonalds to start with.
Surely by now you have realised the food is rubbish
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44 minutes ago, stumpy said:
For us the only game changer is temperature - we moor in the services basin at Broadsedge which seems to be the first to freeze over!
We are lucky on that score. Our mooring is one of the last to freeze over in the marina and the first to thaw.
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25 minutes ago, Smoggy said:
If you happen to own a karcher window vac or similar the make boating in damp weather much easier as you can use inside steering positions and clear the misting easily as you go, I've seen many a hirer sitting on the top steering position in the pi55ing rain because the inside helm is well and truly misted up, <smug git mode> always cheering sitting in my saloon with the eberspacher blowing at the screen and wipers on a good intermittant setting. </smug git mode>
I know we shouldn't but we always feel smug when we are out in the rain on the river here snug, wamr and dry under the canvas and we pass narrowboaters gimacing against the wind and rain stood on the back of their boats at the tiller
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40 minutes ago, RS2021 said:
When it rains and you put the heating/kettle on to keep warm, depending on the design of the boat you can get the inside windows misting up. Only some of the very latest hire boats have demisters like cars, so take something to de mist with you. If the screen is a long way forward from the steering position, then one of those log handled ones you can buy for cars is useful.
The wind can also create small waves on the water. Some boat designs, particularly 'low wash hulls' experience a phenomena known as hull slap on the bow of the boat. If that's where you bed is, then it can result in a sleepless night. If that's the case, then think about where you moor, or if side on which way round you moor.
We find that the water lapping on the hull sends us to sleep!
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We have boated in all weathers over the years. Rain really doesn't bother us in the slightest nor the cold, you can get wrapped up warm and stick the heating on.
Having a small, lightweight boat it is the wind that is the worst weather for us. But we are stupid enough to head out in that as well.
We are out on the boat for a couple of weeks as of tomorrow evening and will be packing clothing for all eventualities. We love boating at this time of year but the weather can be a proper mixed bag so we go prepared for anything.
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Sorry she is not for sale now. We have decided to keep her for a little while longer.
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20 hours ago, Regulo said:
Thinking about this further, most of these groundings seem to have occurred as boats approach Breydon from the Waveney. I can almost guarantee to see scour marks in the mud every time I come through, where boats have had a "near thing" with the mud. Perhaps on that approach, direction arrows could be called for?
We have almost done it ourselves heading back to Yarmouth!
The sun was at an angle where you couldn't tell the colour of the posts easily and we were not really concentrating as we should have been and we almost merrily followed a hire boat onto the mud. It was only at the last minute we took note and realised the error and were able to change course to avoid going aground!
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34 minutes ago, Speleologist said:
The definitive source is the MAIB site. No investigation listed there. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-accident-investigation-branch-current-investigations/marine-accident-investigation-branch-current-investigations
I'm surprised just how many fatal boat accidents there are on that list from 2019 and 2020. Certainly not all of them make the headlines.
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It would have to be a very small water tank to need refilling every day!
Ours is small and we can do three days without needing a refill.
We tend to hire 4-6 berth boats when we do hire on the Broads rather than take our own boat and the toilet holding tank always lasts for the full weeks hire.
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10 minutes ago, ranworthbreeze said:
The news this morning has bigger implications than hire boats redistricting down to six berths. What will happen to the pubs that are working within the previous corvid rulings, how will this effect the return back to schools and how will this effect supermarkets and shops in general. Many Community Centres and village halls have only just started to open again after planning secure Corvid 19 guidelines.
It shouldn't be too much of a problem for the pubs. They are only catering for smaller groups at the moment anyway.
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3 hours ago, grendel said:
except for the fact hovercraft are not allowed on the broads.
at the speed limits generally planing hulls cause more wash (the wash reduces once they are up on the plane)
displacement hulls (generally the type seen on most broads cruisers are limited to the efficient speed by a factor of the length of the boat (where the wavelength of the wash equals the length of the boat is the displacement speed), so a longer boat is capable of going faster, but wash is a factor of the shape of the hull and how the water reacts at the chines and stern of the vessel.
so without going into it too deeply, a well designed hull may well have less wash than one of a different design - as an example most martham boats have a low wash design, and barely produce a wash up to about 4.5mph, and not much after that unless you try and push them above the dispacement speed. whereas most fibreglass bathtub type boats will have more wash at 4mph than a martham boat at 5.5-6mph.
with all these factors in play, setting speed limits has to have a starting point.
Our boat is a nightmare on the Broads, but we love it so we still come to visit.
It is a little planing hull. On a good day in tickover it can do the lowest 3mph speed limit, just, and at that speed it will be making barely a ripple on the water.
Yet get it to 6mph on the stretches where this is allowed and the wash it makes is far too much and isn't acceptable. We have to slow down.
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We have used the Cadac quite a few times now and find it really easy to clean as it is.
The only issue we have with it every time is that we forget how the thing packs away in it's bag so we spend ages trying to figure it out
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Irstead surely?
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Neighbours From Hell.
in The Broadscot Lounge
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We had the neighbours from hell in our last house and endured them for 12 years. Loud noise, banging on walls, threats over the hedge. She even accused me of assaulting her and I had the police turn up where I work to question me. Now this is the mentality of the idiots, the alleged assault took place when we were not even in the same city, we were away on holiday and could prove that!
We went down the formal complaint route with the local council and that lead nowhere.
In the end we just moved house to get away from them and get away from the area. Best thing we have done.