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Post by dogless on Sept 14, 2024 6:54:11 GMT
We all have our own excitements ... laundry day for us ... such fun.
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 14, 2024 6:58:53 GMT
We all have our own excitements ... laundry day for us ... such fun. Rog Yes, I'm off to the launderette this morning. Then I'm going to give the boat its bi-annual hoovering. I don't like to use the Hoover too much as I feel it wears the motor out.
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Post by on Sept 14, 2024 8:45:34 GMT
I think some mild conversion work and making the taskmaster into a solar electric camping launch is the right idea. If I take out the central separator I can put a long enough bed in there. Mount a 355w solar panel at the starn end which hinges up on a frame to form a shelter of sorts.
Not a winter Boat but would be nice in fair weather.
Its a nice easily driven hull and wide enough to be stable. I'd not want to sleep in a canoe or a tent.
space for about 5kwh of batteries which when charged should give about 10 hours cruise.
Not sure it will be self sufficient but there are some overnight moorings with charging points on the River so it would be feasible to do a run from Maidenhead to Lechlade and back using the electric hookups as backup. Also carry a small 4 stroke outboard.
Could be a nice way to see the River. I do like being near the water.
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Post by kris on Sept 14, 2024 8:48:55 GMT
Yes but have you sold your toy trawler yet?
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Post by dogless on Sept 14, 2024 9:14:44 GMT
Laundry done.
Blue skies and sunshine 🌞
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 14, 2024 9:29:48 GMT
I went to the launderette. Now I am going to fire up "Hiroshima", the World's noisiest generator, and hoover the boat.
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Post by kris on Sept 14, 2024 9:30:55 GMT
Fascinating.
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Post by dogless on Sept 14, 2024 9:41:22 GMT
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 14, 2024 9:51:38 GMT
Yes, I'm pleased to report that Slam Transport repaid the money I was stopped the previous month. So quite a good payday although Slam Transport's wages officer was on holiday for the last two weeks in August, meaning that she prepared wage slips mid-month before she went so I won't receive overtime payments for the last two weeks of August until the end of September. So this month's pay should be quite good too, especially as I also worked a Saturday this month. September is one of my two expensive months of the year, I bought the boat in September so things like mooring fees, mooring permit and insurance all fall due then. In fact, on Monday it will be ten years to the day since I motored out of Aqueduct Marina on her. On 12 August 2024, psychopath, pervert, and pathological liar, Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon, also known by his own chosen internet name of ' Mr Stabby' - posted the following blatant lie in the pages of this forum :- "I live in a house in Kent where I pay Council Tax and am on the electoral register."Fact is, that despite claiming to live in Kent, . . in a house for which he says he pays Council Tax, and is on the electoral register, . . this psychopathic pervert has in truth for the last 9(+) years lived permanently, full time, on board a canalboat for which he can't obtain compulsory third party insurance due to not having what insurers define as having 'an insurable interest' in the boat. To get round this insurance problem at every annual renewal, Coventon obtains a technically worthless insurance certificate from his insurers by means of a less than completely truthful Proposal declaring that he owns the boat, with which he then usually succeeds in conning C&RT into believing that he's complying with the third party cover requirements in the boat Licence T&C's. In the early part of this year C&RT became aware of the problem with the questionable third party insurance cover on the boat, and that is what kept Shit-for-Brains at home on his mooring all of this year, . . instead of going out on his usual Summer cruise. Shit-for-Brains shares this uninsured boat (which is owned by someone else who probably does actually live in Kent) with a life-size inflatable rubber doll, and moors and keeps it for most of every year, with a number of other residential boats, on the field moorings at Colehurst Farm, Rugby, CV23 0PT, alongside the (North) Oxford Canal, close to the villages of Stretton-under-Fosse and Brinklow. For some reason not yet discovered or known, 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon also tells, and repeatedly publishes on the internet, lies about where and who he works for as a driver. Whilst pretending that he works for a company called Slam Transport, with depots in Coventry, Darlington, Dunfermline, Gourock, and York, the truth is that he's employed by a specialist logistics company called Hi-Speed Services whose Midlands depot is on Swift Valley Industrial Estate in Rugby. For anyone understandably wanting to give this serious nutter the widest possible berth, this 'selfie' photo of him waving a (Army rifle) bayonet around in public on the stern of his uninsured borrowed boat will be helpful in identifying him :- *
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 14, 2024 10:09:55 GMT
Convicted child rapist Tony Dunkley who has been imprisoned a total of three times for sexual offences against children, 4 Forest Close, Cotgrave, Nottingham, NG12 3JN One look at the photo and you can tell this is a "wrong 'un".
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Post by metanoia on Sept 14, 2024 10:15:52 GMT
I went to the launderette. Now I am going to fire up "Hiroshima", the World's noisiest generator, and hoover the boat. What happened to your "robot hoover"- or did Shania take it with her when she took off?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 14, 2024 10:22:14 GMT
I went to the launderette. Now I am going to fire up "Hiroshima", the World's noisiest generator, and hoover the boat. What happened to your "robot hoover"- or did Shania take it with her when she took off? It died. Then I bought another one and it wasn't any good. So I bought an upright Hoover on ebay that was being sold as "spares or repairs" and the seller said it had no suction. I could see from the photos that it was just full up so I bought it, emptied it all out- even the hose was completely full- and then it worked. Having said that it's just snapped its drive belt. I've ordered a couple more.
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Post by dogless on Sept 14, 2024 10:23:51 GMT
A couple ? How much hoovering you planning Mr Stabby ! Rog
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Post by brummieboy on Sept 14, 2024 10:26:04 GMT
Yes but have you sold your toy trawler yet? You obviously miss the interesting bits. He gave it to a mate. Keep up or keep out.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 14, 2024 10:40:09 GMT
A couple ? How much hoovering you planning Mr Stabby ! Rog Actually I've just had a better idea. I'm going to leave the Hoover on the stern deck for three weeks and see if that does anything.
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