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Cheesey69
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I know I swear when I’m in the middle of a swarm of day boats playing mad max but it’s nice to see the place living, earning for the locals and spreading the word.
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Whats beginning to grate at my work is the effective pay rise those that work at home had.
no travel expense for instance, food etc and more time at home.
Some parts are grumbling about removing the London weighting allowance and pushing for more annual leave to compensate.
For me, all decisions are painfully slow, no cross flow of ideas and the gap between management and workers has grown.
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41 minutes ago, BroadAmbition said:
Erm point of order.
‘Bathtubs’ are certainly not the easiest to stern moor or moor opposite side to the helm due to a lack of vision unless there are mirrors / cameras fitted
Griff
Point of order again.
stern mooring?
lean out as far as you can, shout at your other half to attract the attention of on lookers, whack engine room into energetic reverse, shoot back at rate of knots, forget your leaning out, sandwich yourself against next door boat, miss your other half shouting stop because of ringing in ears and sound of tortured BMC, rearrange capping of mooring spot, relishing the popping of fenders, have a go at other half for being too slow, turn off engine and pose at another good landing.seriously your right, tricky but it sits well once moored and a great fishing platform all round.
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Inboard. Easy to work on. More secure and more options regarding power options. Eg battery charging.
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Hi all,
Love the information and the knowledge that just seeps of of the forum (no its not beer) but I saw this invitation to join NSBA and having never really heard of it first hand, I wondered is it worth joining?
thanks
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The BA is not a public health authority. We have a huge department for that.
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1 minute ago, Ray said:
I think, could be wrong, that they are saying you should still stay within your village, town, area of city. This is at odds with the govt. advice that you should restrict travel.
It may seem like splitting hairs but it makes a huge difference if for example you live 2 villages away from your boat.
Happy to be corrected if I've read that wrong
I’ve just had a local government briefing. And your right, BA is not following government advice
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Any distance to it? Read above. Minimise travel is a vast difference to stay local.
you must see that.
And I have. Have you?minimise travel means one journey instead of two.
it don’t mean stay local-
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Sorry BA, but your continued stance against motorboat owners instead of protecting and promoting their use is ridiculous.
when I stand at the waters edge and see canoe, paddle boards and yes sailing boats go by (with their engines on) and fishing boats and I wonder where is your voice during this pandemic?I know this is government but I fail to see any protest especially last November when we could use our boats but you said no
So, no. I think I will follow the law.
if I’m wrong I’m happy to stand corrected
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Down, and deeper on down.
As my dad said, Always use protection son because five minutes of madness could equal a whole lifetime of hassle.
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47 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
If it wasn't for commercial boating, wherries and lighters, I don't suppose the Broads would be what it is today. Perhaps not created for boats but certainly dredged and in many cases, adapted for boats.
Yes your right.
What I meant was that the canals are obviously man made rather than man made blending over time into a false natural state.
Then you don't get some shredded wheat vest wearing geezer in your face when you move a sign post to "Little Dribble" two inches to the right because a water rat named Tony wants to watch Man united versus Driveshaft FC on the box.
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The canals have vast stretches of tow path to moor on.
Free toilet facilities and provided water points. To be honest, based on my experience, Canals are very much better but then again, most canals run near services.
canals have more infrastructure to maintain.
But i think the canal trust gets a hand out from government.
Its a close run thing but I guess the canals focus is on the boats because the canals was built for the boats rather than everyone else.
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where does he/she keep pen and paper?
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The canal lock keepers seems to be more of a hobby
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The pay is pretty awful in this day and age.
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True and well said
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25 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
Get that, but do we want to throw away the last months of sacrifice and effort?? If we have to delay the end of the restrictions due to a surge in infection rates, how many more businesses will fail, how many more people will suffer mental illness resulting from the impact of redundancy etc. and how many more people awaiting hospital treatment will have their appointments put back because of Covid. BoJo keeps talking of a cautious approach, but the blanket approach of sending all schools back at the same time seems a bit like throwing caution to the wind.
Because what figure is acceptable? What price is life risky?
remember the slogans. Protect the NHS.
once the pressure is off the nhs and infections get more manageable then that’s job done. It’s not to stop people dying.
once the levels dip to around other seasonal illness job done.
Because, and I know this first hand, the real race is to get our economic engine going fast.
I suspect one of the bonuses of the injection is to enable the work force to work.
A debt bigger than the world war 2’s, massive unemployment, uncertain world outlook, waiting nhs lists bigger and longer than ever and Uk infrastructure creaking all need money.
It’s the health versus wealth debate and I think it’s time to address the wealth side.
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1 hour ago, Mouldy said:
I think it did. What I don’t understand is how a class of thirty children can mix together in a classroom and go to their various homes, potentially spreading the virus, but only two people can meet outdoors for a chat.
My view (for what it’s worth) would be to allow children who are in examination years to return first and phase the rest over a period of time to assess the impact. But what do I know?Covid or not these children are the future tax payers, scientists road workers etc. Learning to learn is a habit they can’t afford to lose. The input of education must be kept up and for these reasons I think the kids are the most important consideration
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They messed up in November and it’s about time they acted for the boater, all of us.
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Not much help at all, I have a Bermuda 34, BMC engine with hydraulic drive and although I've seen it many times, I can't tell you the make.
But as a side note, feel this model from 1974, never came with this as delivered or was never designed for this.
The drive motor and thrust plate have been added and the pipe work from the pump although neat, still look like an after thought.
To the stern right is a space that looked as if a diesel tank once occupied with filled in filler hole.
The tank is mid ships now.
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Oh the cleaning! will no one think of the cleaning?
The sound of pressure washers filling the air!
Finding that cloth you left lying around that's now a home to mould.
The moment of wonder when your water springs to life hopefully not to a spring.
piles of dead batteries.
cant wait.
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I enjoy my water garden on The Broads
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Totally. Might miss the food but I’m afraid to say it, pubs are expensive and non to special to let it ruin a break.
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1 hour ago, grendel said:
agreed, thats what Paul is saying, the use of centimetres or decimetres (100mm) is just something thats avoided, all measurements are in metres or millimetres, so a typical measurement would be 2.45m or 2450mm, not 245cm, or 24.5dm, why are the schools teaching cm and dm when they are generally avoided.
I know they are theoretically part of the decimal system, but its as bad as someone using the imperial measurements and quoting things in us survey feet, its fine over short distances, but over the longer distances the errors creep up:-
3.28083333333 US survey feet per meter
3.28083989501 International feet per meter
worse still is measuring by GPS, which gives the correct measure only at sea level.
I once saw the result of a site laying out the bolt pattern for a new pre built units building that arrived on site and were basically plugged together to form the finished building, the finished building was 100m long, yet as the bolts had been carefully laid out by gps, the site were telling the manufacturer that the prefabricated units were incorrect as they ended up 50mm short of the bolts installed at the far end of the structure, in fact due to the height above sea level, the carefully laid out gps coordinates had left the bolts 50mm further apart than a direct measure by tape made it, as you rise above sea level the curve of the earth increases the distance between gps points and a correction factor has to be allowed to enable correct measurements. similarly measurements taken up a steep hill will be longer than the same distance on the flat.
As a brickie agreed but I think it goes unsaid the ability of sticking a zero or taking one off or indeed moving the decimal point is very easy and automatic and that what makes it superior to imperial.
As to large distance, we use the metric system on the motorway network but ironically for the motorist we use miles and yards. The marker posts you see at the side of the carriageway is in kilometers and meters.
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Grease Is The Word
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Hi all,
what grease do you recommend for the stuffing box and the hydraulic motor thrust bearing?
thanks