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Phil Rushton | 1 Mar 2008 01:04

Re: Generator use was Re: Red Diesel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Millin" <roger.millin@...>
To: <canals-list@...>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:18 PM
Subject: [canals-list] Generator use was Re: Red Diesel

> Ron wrote:
> > I've done that with a genny, then someone always moors next to 
> you.... 
> > Boats are like buses, you never one on it's own...
> 
> Yes, it's amazing isn't it? However, in that case I have no conscience 
> as I was there first. But to be honest, by the time they've come along 
> and moored up our whole wash cycle is hardly 2 hours so they are 
> inconvenienced for a relatively short time. It's not like the b$st$rds 
> that run their 240V tele all evening, putting their genny on their back 
> deck, just in front of your front deck, so that they don't hear their 
> genny running while they watch tele all evening Grrrrhhhh!!!
> Roger

It is always worth carrying a few potatoes on board ..............
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Roger Millin | 1 Mar 2008 11:03
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Generator use was Re: Red Diesel

Brian asked:
> How is the gear change now. did you get a permanent fix for the 
crunchy 
> change?

After I had done some home-engineered mods to reduce the rate of oil-
pressure increase to the clutch plates and found an improvement, I 
contacted PRM and their technical director admitted that I was on the 
right track. He sent me FOC a mod, developed by one of their overseas 
agents, that did the same as my mod but in a better, more highly 
engineered, form and that has been installed ever since. The 
crunch/clunk is now quite acceptable, even for the sensitive ear of an 
engineer ;-)), and I've been running with that mod fitted for years now.
It was just a matter of working out what could cause the crunch and 
then, with the knowledge of how the gearbox worked, coming up with a 
mod that could alter the gear selection characteristics. 
Roger
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Roger Millin | 1 Mar 2008 11:12
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Generator use was Re: Red Diesel

Phil suggested:
> It is always worth carrying a few potatoes on board ..............

I would have liked one for the gob of the boat owner who pulled in in 
front of me one summer evening and then proceeded to set up his genny 
on his rear deck (right in front of my boat). When I protested that I 
was enjoying the peace and quiet of a lovely summer evening and didn't 
want to listen to his genny all night he, at first, suggested that he 
was only testing it (So why had he gone to the trouble of chaining it 
to his deck then? He also couldn't hear me speaking to him because of 
the noise of the genny) then admitted that he and his family wouldn't 
be able to watch TV all evening now. He then threatened me that as he 
liked a lie-in in the morning that he didn't expect to hear me set off 
in the morning.
Yes, in that case, I could have found a very suitable receptacle for 
the potato ;-))))
Roger
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Steve | 1 Mar 2008 12:32
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Re: Great-grandfather

Hi Colin,

Upper Wharf Street is still there, but sadly it looks like the whole 
area has been turned into carparks, warehouses and factories from the 
Live Search Maps photo,

http://tinyurl.com/2m69r5

Steve 

--- In canals-list@..., "Colin Shepherd" 
<colin.shepherd <at> ...> wrote:
>
> My great-grandfather John William Ryan was born in Upper Canal 
Cottage Wharf
> Street (or Upper Wharf Street) Salford.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone know if its still there ?
> 
>  
> 
> Colin
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Neil Arlidge | 1 Mar 2008 13:00
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Re: Narrow boats in wider waters (was: onboard AC power)

Brian from sunny Suffolk wrote:
> qwertybjg explained on 29/02/2008 :
>> --- In canals-list@..., "Neil
>> Arlidge" <neil <at> ...> wrote:
>>
>>> I hate to annoy you Adrian, but when I am bored with Ireland it is
>>> straight to Europe, where we will probably knock the whole system
>>> off in a  couple of years, including all the bits where you can't
>>> get your barge!  ;-\)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - Shannon Reg 7410
>>> Read about the TNC Irish travels at:
>>> http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_07/index.html
>>>
>>
>>
>> I shall be looking forward to the trip reports!
>>
> Join the queue

You've got a long wait!...you're more likely to get the WWW doing round the 
world big tin ship reports. She already has her new set of virtual friends 
on the cruise lines lists/blogs. The good thing with these, if you get well 
known with the cruise lines (these lists are HEAVILY monitored), they give 
you goodies*....all you get on the British waterway lists is the 
increasingly paranoid BW monitoring / politic (I could go on and on and 
on...)
Personally I would like to just dissapear into the ether, like so many Brits 
that end up boating in Europe.
(Continue reading)

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Neil Arlidge | 1 Mar 2008 13:08
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Re: removing signwriting

Roger Millin wrote:
> Brain wrote:
>> Why "Registered at Norton Canes"? It that where she was built?
>
> Of course, it's where all the best boats are built isn't it Terry and
> Dave? ;-))))
> See: http://www.nortoncanesboatbuilders.co.uk/
> 1068 makes Arun 7 boats before Albion Terry.
> Roger

AFAIR Arun was 1998?...that makes it a fair bit older than Albion????

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Read about the TNC Irish travels at:
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Bruce Napier | 1 Mar 2008 14:02
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Re: Re: onboard AC power [was: .. bore glazing ..]


On 29 Feb 2008, at 20:36, dvdobbin@... wrote:

> brucenapier1@... writes:
>
> That's  exactly what I'm using for this. I use a USB extension cable to
> put the  dongle in the porthole above the laptop.
>
>
>
>
>
> ??!!!!
>
I'm sorry, you have a problem with my dongle in the porthole?

;-}}
––
All the best

Bruce

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into 
the green valleys of silliness.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Michael Askin | 1 Mar 2008 15:51
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Holidays 1998 Video

Hi Folks,

For those who have a couple of hours to kill, have a look at my
holiday video from 1998.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D57AC88E4E993681

Highlights include the trip through Liverpool, across the Mersey, the
Weaver, and ship canal. Also the "Wizard of Oz" WRG panto!

The above is a play list which has all the videos of that set in it.
It will play one after another if you click the relevant link.

Cheers,

Mike

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http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
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Roger Millin | 1 Mar 2008 16:02
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Re: removing signwriting

Neil wrote:
> AFAIR Arun was 1998?...that makes it a fair bit older than Albion????

And Albion's shell was 1999 - 2000 so, at Graham's build rate (about 4 
per year), that's about OK. The fit out was longer, another 18 months 
to be precise but the shell was as described.
I'm afraid Neil that you'll soon have to admit that as you get older 
time appears to fly by. It's called old age me old mate! ;-)))
Roger
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Neil Arlidge | 1 Mar 2008 16:02
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Re: Holidays 1998 Video

Michael Askin wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> For those who have a couple of hours to kill, have a look at my
> holiday video from 1998.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D57AC88E4E993681
>
> Highlights include the trip through Liverpool, across the Mersey, the
> Weaver, and ship canal. Also the "Wizard of Oz" WRG panto!
>
> The above is a play list which has all the videos of that set in it.
> It will play one after another if you click the relevant link.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike

Wait till I do youtube intallments of the TNC 2000 BCN Silver 
Challenge...only 18 hours :-)

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Read about the TNC Irish travels at:
http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_07/index.html
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