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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 25, 2017 19:38:15 GMT
EXOL PRIDE another new tanker parked opposite us. Blimey, these tankers are looooooong! Next to it is BATTLESTONE.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 20:24:47 GMT
Roger, Roger! Loud and clear! We are used to being WARM in Finland as houses there are built properly. T-shirts and shorts for us at home in Minus 30 Centipedes. Burning the forests to keep the cold out and deprive future generations of arboreal familiarity is our aim! Bollocks to people who sit in pub 'beer gardens' in the chilly wind and pretend they're enjoying it. Idiots. Dinner not long finished, the carnage viewed from the patio (along with an ever hopeful bonehead laying under the table ) A balmy 17° on the 50p asda thermometer Sat here in a T shirt and jeans 👍
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 25, 2017 20:28:49 GMT
+25 in kitchen, stove been going half an hour. Did u see the news about a big chunk of Antarctica coming loose? Sub-Saharans need water, we're sorting it!!
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Post by JohnV on Jul 27, 2017 12:15:22 GMT
Finally in the dock !!! just waiting for it to completely empty. The other barge came out last night (Swinderby, a very large tanker barge) I tried to get some shots but it was too dark and the flash on the camera was just not powerful enough. Very very impressive bit of boat handling (by the drydock owner) the barge was so long that it's back end was touching the opposite side of the river while it's bow was still inside the drydock !!! After it was out it set off backwards down the river ...... to cap it all this morning he came back passed me heading upstream to his base ....STILL BACKWARDS !!! He must have turned round somewhere down stream ...... I don't know why he was going up to the base backwards ....... Possibly there is no place o turn round up there, but he still had to negotiate a couple more lifting bridges !!! SAM_0835 by mudlarker2, on Flickr As the wheelhouse was going past, I said to the skipper ...... "After that display last night, if Icock it up in a barge a third the size I'm going to look a right plonker " Fortunately it all went nice and smooth and steady
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2017 12:25:59 GMT
That's wicked John.
Are you going to get them to fit a tunnel over the prop ?
If you can't get the boat down further in the water it might be a very handy addition !
And maybe a bowthruster (giggle)
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 27, 2017 15:18:17 GMT
You get used to driving large vehicles, such as buses and Boeing 747s. Exon Pride came in using bow thrusters. Some more painting for us if it doesn't rain again. Getting ready for our departure. If we go past kris at 5am we can test the new horn!
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Post by patty on Jul 27, 2017 17:15:21 GMT
. If we go past kris at 5am we can test the new horn! Let us know how that goes...actually on reflection I'm sure Kris will
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Post by peterboat on Jul 27, 2017 18:30:59 GMT
I would stop so he gets the full value of it he he
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Post by peterboat on Jul 27, 2017 19:16:16 GMT
You get used to driving large vehicles, such as buses and Boeing 747s. Exon Pride came in using bow thrusters. Some more painting for us if it doesn't rain again. Getting ready for our departure. If we go past kris at 5am we can test the new horn! Pride has just departed our moorings so you might get to see how big he is if you meet him on the way
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 27, 2017 20:41:36 GMT
It's been here for two nights parked opposite us. I've never really thought about ships, but they are quite interesting. Narrowboats look like water flees next to big 'uns like that. All these huge waterways and not in proper use, criminal waste of resources.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 7, 2017 22:45:40 GMT
I'm livening up this zombie thread to give Foxy (and anyone else interested an update on my drydocking) I have known for a long time that the prop on Sabina was too big a pitch. It causes massive noise vibration if you try and push the revs beyond about 1100 rpm with no increase in speed. One of the jobs was to get the prop off and get it re-pitched. (Woodwards is only a few hundred yards from the dock so ideal) The prop nut was (unusually) made of steel and did not want to come off. It finally surcumbed to the combined efforts of two hefty guys, a 4 foot pair of stilsons with a scaffold pole on the end and a lot of heat. It unscrewed about 3/4" and then got tighter and required more sweat and more heat to get it off. Once removed we found that the end of the shaft was very badly damaged, the threaded section should have been about 2 1/2" long but there was only about 3/4" of thread the rest was totally mullered. The inside of the nut was pretty grim as well. Dave Woodward from the propeller place came and had a look and reckoned that there was insufficient thread left for safety even with a new nut. He gave me a ballpark figure for re-pitching and making a new shaft which I decided was the best thing to do. The propeller came off without too much drama but the sand trap behind the prop was totally banjaxed, heavily corroded shield (also steel) and sacrificial wear plates of brass worn to probably half their original thickness. Inside the boat the shaft terminated in a large heavy flange that bolted to the intermediate shaft. we removed the intermediate and slid the shaft into the boat to find that it was too long to come out that way (well at least without removing the gearbox !!!). Obviously with the large flange attached it wouldn't go out the other way. We could not see how the flange was fixed to the shaft, we tried everything we could think of to get it off. (even Dave Woodward came back and had another look and couldn't see how it was fixed) I had been threatening it with a Paddy's motorbike but it was not taking any notice (Peterboat kept suggesting trying more normal methods first) By the next day we still could not get the damned thing off so cutting discs it was and the shaft (in three sections ) and bits and pieces were delivered to Woodwards. When we got the shaft out of the boat and turned it face up in bright light we found that what we had taken to be a recess machined into the flange was actually A completely circular nut that totally filled the recess and looked like part of the flange!!!
it just unscrewed and the flange popped off with a little tap The original shaft was 2 1/4" mild steel but they are doing the new one in stainless (He says he has an off cut that's big enough and will cost much the same) The pitch on the propeller is almost double the correct pitch and as it's a heavy gauge they can re-pitch it. they are going to make a new cover for the sand trap and new plates for it. I still have to remove the sacrificial bronze plate that backs the sand trap which is my tomorrows job (It is worn to less than half it's original thickness and the nuts which were originally deeply recessed are now on the surface and worn down to only about a 1/4" thick) I am still going to have an anti cavitation plate fitted but as they reckon that the finer pitch will reduce my propwalk I might just have a flat plate like many of the HJumber barges rather than the half Kort nozzle like some Dutch barges ........ I have not made my mind up yet.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 8, 2017 7:03:42 GMT
Well, you're in the right place to get all this done. When it's finished and you're driving up the Knottingley & Goole you'll be happy knowing it's all - literally! - shipshape down there.
13kg gas bottle to buy today, logs (if I can find some), and to go through paperwork. Rained hard last night but I think the paint was dry enough to repel the water. kris asked how we charge our batteries and I said just with the alternator when we're driving; with 240v here I put the automatic/intelligent battery charger on and all three lights (the max) came up quickly so looks like the alternator has done its job.
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Post by peterboat on Aug 8, 2017 7:59:49 GMT
Glad to hear that things are going to planish throwing it down here so expect it will be the same there? so no blacking or welding going on?
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 8, 2017 9:17:00 GMT
1015 - not raining Sowerby Bridge. As seen through Wetherspoons' window. Heavy cloud. Bit chilly (stove is pumping out acrid coal smoke as we speaketh!)
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2017 9:17:19 GMT
Glad to hear that things are going to planish throwing it down here so expect it will be the same there? so no blacking or welding going on? Welder is working inside engine room at moment, raising starboard side of tank so that the sump and drain are the lowest point. I have been re-shaping the floor plate round the water inlet for main engine to accommodate the new valve (has a bigger handle) Hopefully it eases up later as I will be trying to get that plate off the stern tube to take to Woodwards. It's got to be off today or it will delay him. With a bit of luck we will get a long enough dry spell for me to get it done.
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