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Living on a Narrowboat
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostLesson learnt - carbon monoxide alarm.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostBuy a new gas device and have it regularly serviced. Many new safety features designed to prevent these situations. The CO alarm is another line of defence."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostServicing is more important as a CO alarm is the last line of defence as lots of people especially children don't wake up to alarms like that.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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For the record, I've never actually spent any time on a narrowboat. It's just a pipedream of mine.
I am a keen gongoozler though and spend hours leaning over the railings at the end of the beer garden of the Barge Inn in Bradford onAvon watching novices making a pig's ear of entering and exiting the lock.
I should really hire one for a week. The problem there is that the configuration of a hire boat isn't to my taste & I'd be going for something decked out in a more traditional style with woodburners etc. The boats one can hire seem to be more like caravans inside.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostBuy a new gas device and have it regularly serviced. Many new safety features designed to prevent these situations. The CO alarm is another line of defence.Originally posted by SueEllen View PostServicing is more important as a CO alarm is the last line of defence as lots of people especially children don't wake up to alarms like that.Originally posted by vetran View PostIndeed but newer devices will have flame supervisors & oxygen level detectors both of which regularly save lives.Comment
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And for anyone who enjoys reading about Narrowboating, I can highly recommend Terry Darlington's excellent Narrow Dog to Carcassonne in which he takes a narrow boat (and a dog) from Yorkshire to the South of France.
And the amazing thing is, people, he does the whole journey without the boat leaving the water.
Yes, that's right! He takes it throught the treacherous tidal waters of the Severn estuary from Sharpness to the mouth of the Avon, up the K&A to join the Thames at Reading, out to Tilbury and then across the channel to France.
I didn't even know that a narrowboat was capable of thisComment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostAnd for anyone who enjoys reading about Narrowboating, I can highly recommend Terry Darlington's excellent Narrow Dog to Carcassonne in which he takes a narrow boat (and a dog) from Yorkshire to the South of France.
And the amazing thing is, people, he does the whole journey without the boat leaving the water.
Yes, that's right! He takes it throught the treacherous tidal waters of the Severn estuary from Sharpness to the mouth of the Avon, up the K&A to join the Thames at Reading, out to Tilbury and then across the channel to France.
I didn't even know that a narrowboat was capable of thisComment
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View PostI know some of the Dutch barges have boards on the side you can slide down as a keel in open water. Did he do it in a 6foot narrow boat?Comment
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I would think lack of Freeboard would have been the main concern. And only having a single piston Petter capable of propelling him at 6 knots might have been a bit of a risk as well.
I have a vision in my mind of a Canal barge crossing the English Channel in my head now. Smoke curling lazily out of the Galley cooker chimney, washing hung out over the prow, some poor geezer hanging on the tiller at the back and the steady putt putt putt putt of the Petter derv engine...,Comment
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