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On 25/07/2019 at 19:37, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
Yes, but unless it has a very powerful inverter, you should`nt use hairdryers or straighteners as they have heating elements that require a lot of power, possibly more than a 1000w inverter. As for shore power, yes, you can use most electrical equipment. Re straighteners, you can buy 12v items, which do work, and can be run of the 12v ciggy lighter socket. Karen has a set which she always uses if we`re moored with no hook up. You can also get 12v hairdryers, but they take ages to work if you have a lot of hair (so perfect for me then
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When we had our hand-over, we were told that on no account should we use a hairdryer on the boat.
The message was slightly undermined by the fact that there was a hairdryer in one of the cabins.
Hard-wired, and no doubt 12 V, but....
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5 minutes ago, oldgregg said:
In case anyone is wondering... A 1KW electric heater (ie not a very powerful one) would damage (not just flatten) a single boat battery in well under an hour.
1KW at 12 volts is 83 amps, probably more like 100 by the time you've added in the conversion losses of an inverter.
Indeed. It's not just a question of how beefy the inverter is...
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50 minutes ago, grendel said:
I wonder just how many people investigate the supply network when considering new appliances.
I wonder how many people would know how to investigate the supply network?
I wouldn't!
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24 minutes ago, EastCoastIPA said:
And as I found out if two heterosexual single males want to hire a boat you have to pay the same sex extra deposit!!! When I asked for extra bedding as there would be guests joining us for the first weekend and we would need to be able to convert the settee in the saloon I was asked the sex of that couple as well! When they found out it was a heterosexual couple suddenly the extra deposit was waived. All a total nonsense really. Not naming the yard as it was 16 years ago and the ownership of the yard has changed now anyway.
To some extent I think it's one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't situations.
After two weeks on the Broads, I can quite understand the desire to charge an extra damage deposit to groups of young lads out on a boat together.
Putting an age restriction on would probably be illegal. You could leave it up to discretion when booking or taking on the boat...but that becomes contentious. A blanket policy is easy to implement, but then leads to the implication that a same-sex couple are more likely to do something silly to the boat then a heterosexual one, which is unfair.
Thinking about it, a policy of an extra deposit for any same-sex group of three or more might work better. At least then you'd only get the anomaly when two or more same-sex couples share a boat, rather than just one...?
Herbert Woods mention damage deposits for same-sex groups, but also mention for any non-family group. But that could also be a can of worms - what is a "family"?
Of course the easiest solution is to charge everyone the same damage deposit. I looked recently at hiring on the Caledonian Canal and they wanted £500 from all comers.
I think we paid a fairly hefty deposit on Lough Erne.
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3 hours ago, oceandawn said:
There is a wonderful app now available to enable sufferers to monitor and self manage the condition.Trials so far have resulted in hospital and GP attendances greatly reduced.GPs can arrange it.
There really is an app for everything!
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18 minutes ago, ranworthbreeze said:
They could be closed all year round for me Peter, the same goes for fishing.
Are you sure?
It wouldn't bother me directly if everyone stopped fishing, but looking at the large fraction of boats I saw with people fishing from them, I don't think it would be terribly helpful to the hire boat industry.
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Compulsory viewing for (almost) the whole household last time round.
I had the privilege of a visit to Fawley Hill, where it was filmed, earlier this year - that's some garden railway!
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4 hours ago, Chelsea14Ian said:
Should be three puffers.
I was wondering but didn't like to ask...
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31 minutes ago, Kron said:
Came to take the mudweight out and it wouldn't budge, even with both of us trying. Had to go and ask someone from Richardson's if they would be able to help. Felt a bit guilty because we are not on one of their boats
. One of their chaps came to help and it still took 2 to pull it up. It was certainly not going anywhere!
I nearly had that problem.
Our skippers' manual said if that happened to reverse the boat slowly to pull it out of the mud.
It didn't explain how you get the quay behind you to reverse as well...
We spent a night there, and found the staff very friendly.
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2 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
Isn`t it all under redevelopment?
Well from what I read above it's got planning permission...which doesn't guarantee that it will go any further.
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46 minutes ago, Broads01 said:
I took this picture in May and if you compare to Coryton's picture you can see how much it's deteriorated. I was going to ask when I took it, what was the building used for originally. It has the look of air traffic control about it.
Good grief - it's gone downhill fast!
Being pedantic, it looks like something from a ground control tower at an airport (but a bit too low down).
It certainly would be nice to see something done with it - it's not exactly the most pleasant welcome to Great Yarmouth (not that the yacht station is a thing of beauty)
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Oh dear.
It wasn't looking that great a couple of weeks ago. But better than that.
As for having someone take your ropes, when we arrived in the yacht station fairly close to low tide we were quite a long way down and I had to scramble up to get the ropes on.
Maybe if we'd waited someone would have come and helped, but all we knew was that they would come along and make sure we had them tied properly to cope with the tides (which they did), not take a rope in the first place.
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20 minutes ago, Kron said:
Once he was on dry land he explained that he was lucky to still be here as he had actually been heading for Yarmouth but after the gales of yesterday he had eventually made it in at Lowestoft. His boat did not river worthy let alone sea worthy. He also admitted on being short on fuel and asked if we would tow him across Breydon the next morning and up the Bure seeing as that's where we were going. I explained that we were only a hire boat and we weren't allowed or insured to do it. (He tried asking another hirer later and got the same answer). I'm not sure he would be able to make it across on his own steam and felt sorry for him but certainly we would not have taken on such a massive responsibility even it had been our own boat.
Good grief!
It takes all sorts, doesn't it?
I can't think of a worse place on the Broads to try towing someone than across Breydon and through Great Yarmouth.
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1 minute ago, vanessan said:
It is a lovely quiet spot and very sheltered. You only know you are close to civilisation when a train rumbles across the bridge.
Actually, now you come to mention it, I think that was the point that I realised where we were.
I was doing something in the cabin and not paying attention.
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10 hours ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
We`ve taken 43ft of Lightning through Bridge Broad. Lovely quiet place to mudweight, and quite sheltered too.
2 hours ago, SwanR said:So no-one ever really mentions Bridge Broad. We've always wondered whether you are allowed in there ... that's the one just the other side of Wroxham Bridge? Is it an "in one end and out the other" kind of place or "one way in and out"?
We took a detour/short cut through there on the way back from Coltishall.
It didn't occur to us there was any reason not to. It looked perfectly navigable, and we didn't see any signs saying that it was private, or that it was too shallow, so I'm a bit surprised that people don't seem to normally go in there.
Did we miss something?
Here is a view of us coming back out again towards the BA moorings.
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1 hour ago, JawsOrca said:
There does seem to be bit of speed feast on at the moment, I'm wondering when I'm going to get the leaflet because I thought the top speed is 6mph on the broads?! The ranger boat on the Ant was safety tucked away in her cabin this morning so it's hardly a surprise. It does seem that no one gets that it's wash first then speed but I guess it's always been the same.
I think part of the problem is that a speed limit is easy to keep to, at least if you have a GPS speedometer on your boat or phone.
But it's less obvious what your wash should, or shouldn't, be doing.
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3 minutes ago, vanessan said:
Which half?
Do we want to know?
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1 minute ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
I guess I`m alone not liking to feel like a goldfish in a bowl when moored then and a lot of materials used internally fade in colour from exposure in time.
Won`t have that problem with a light tint.
I see the point about fading.
I don't have a problem with people peeking through the windows if the curtains are open though.
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20 minutes ago, vanessan said:
My sentiments entirely. I am a big fan of large windows in a boat, like marshman I don’t have a problem with curtains. Some of the newer boats appear to have large tinted windows with tiny areas that open. I can’t see the benefit in them but I may be missing something.
Clearly it depends on the level of tinting, but the trains from Cardiff to London used to have heavily tinted windows - presumably to make it easier for people to see their laptop screens.
They made a nice sunny day look overcast and an overcast day look dreadful. And at night you could barely see anything.
The new trains have nice clear windows, and blinds.
(Well actually the windows aren't clear because they don't ever seem to be washed and they are filthy, but apart from that...)
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1 minute ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
I`m wondering if people realise that with the lighter tints the view from the inside looking out is hardly restricted at all.
I think what I don't realise is the benefit from tinting windows at all.
In particular I found it quite odd to pass a boat and not to be able to see the person at the helm.
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I'm not a fan of tinted windows.
When I look out I want to see what the view really looks like.
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36 minutes ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
I think these types you refer to were so designed to stop all normal traffic, but would allow emergency vehicles continued crossing, but at the drivers discretion of course.
The idea is that - since the barriers come down automatically when a train is approaching - any vehicle on the crossing when they come down can make a safe exit.
For very good reason, emergency vehicles are not permitted to pass flashing red lights under any circumstances.
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13 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
The man/ women on the gates has waved me through a few times so agree with you there but there must be a system in place for the stuck low loader.
As in my previous post, I believe there will be.
But there are plenty of level crossings in the UK which don't have anything to prevent a train approaching with a vehicle stuck on the crossing - these are the ones with "half-barriers" that just cover the side of the road for traffic about to enter the crossing.
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25 minutes ago, ranworthbreeze said:
The sad thing regarding the level crossing at Brundall, is that the cost of the new system would keep the 4 staff that cover the shifts on the crossing could be employed for the next 50 to 100 years at a fraction of the price that the new system will cost when completed.
A man on the gate knows that he can let the odd car through before closing the gate, a automatic system just flashes the warning lights and closed the barrier , it does not take into account that a low loader has bottomed out just over the crossing and is blocking the crossing, it does not happen often but it does happen from time to time.
I find it surprising that a level crossing replacement would be so expensive - staffing costs these days are huge.
Also, I believe that the crossing will be replaced by a full barrier crossing which will be monitored by CCTV - the signals protecting it will only be cleared when someone has looked at the screen and checked that nothing is blocking the crossing.
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. One of their chaps came to help and it still took 2 to pull it up. It was certainly not going anywhere!
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And I believe the move is supposed to be towards all-electric houses...no gas heating or cookers...