Category Archives: Day Zero

May
22
2013

The Duck is back for sale

by Skippy

There has been some bad news from Amy, and James of nbLuckyDuck: Unfortunately we learned last night that the person (whose offer we accepted on the Duck back in late February) has changed his mind about buying the boat for personal reasons. So the Duck is back on the market. Tonight we are moving it [...]

posted in Boating, Canals, Friends, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months | tagged with , , , , | No Comments

Apr
28
2013

A tail of two Fram’s

by Skippy

A while ago I did an oil change on nbStephen’s BMC (Leyland) 1.8 litre Diesel engine. Taking the code off the side of the filter I went to the lovely people at Direct Filter Supply’s (0161 330 5538) to get a new Fram PH2857A. Unfortunately not all FRAM PH2857As are born equal. And they only [...]

posted in b0atg1rl, Boating, Narrowboats, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months | No Comments

Mar
26
2013

Harry Beck Style Canal Map

by Skippy

The first diagrammatic map of London’s rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.[3] Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only [...]

posted in b0atg1rl, Boating, Canals, Cartography, Geeky, Narrowboats, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months, Transport | tagged with , , , , , , , | No Comments

Oct
04
2012

230 Volt System

by Skippy

While b0atg1rl and I plan to be continues cruisers for a while, but when we are hanging around in an area for a while we hope to also be able to use shore supplies, nbSteven came with 4 x Single sockets on a 230 circuit that would be useful to use when we need 230V [...]

posted in Arduino, Boating, Geeky, Maker, Narrowboats, Off The Grid, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months | tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Oct
02
2012

Cunning Plans

by Skippy

There is a cunning plan, and that cunning plan is to escape… escape the west, heading east we plan to first go… um… west to Llangollen, because b0atg1rl has never done the Llangollen Arm of the Shropshire Union canal (bit of a mouthful) on her own boat; and well I have never done it at all. [...]

posted in b0atg1rl, Llangollen Arm of the Shropshire Union canal, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months, Uncategorized | tagged with , , , , , , , | No Comments

Oct
01
2012

The Bed room is finally (half) finished.

by Skippy

After having nbSteven for just under three months now, and having lived on her for two, we finally have the bed room finished… well it’s how we wanted it in the short term. A long while ago on a trip to IKEA we picked up two BETYDLIG curtain poll clips, one BETYDLIG poll, and some [...]

posted in Boating, Canals, Narrowboats, Off The Grid, Shopping, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months | tagged with , , , , , | Comments (1)

Oct
01
2012

Where the Themes meets the Themes and Severn Canal

by Skippy

Following on from my previous two posts; this one is based on my 365s location, b0atg1rl and I were standing in Lechlade. Lechlade is just downstream from the junction between the River Themes (River Isis), River Coln, and the Thames and Severn Canal. Again its under the control of the trust. The Trust is working to restore [...]

posted in b0atg1rl, Lechlade, River Thames, Task 8 - Walk the Themes, from Source to Port of London, Thames and Severn Canal, Thames Walk | tagged with , , , , , , , | No Comments

Sep
19
2012

Solar Power on Boats

by Skippy

A while ago I looked at Solar Panels (Photo Voltaic) and did some research, (including reading a very hippy book [Electrosmog anyone??]) Tom of nbWaiour wrote this post about nbDestiny’s solar panel mounting system, which he says appears to be “electrically controlled and ‘self-seeking’”. Solar Trackers are not unushal in comercial PV instalations, however they are quite unusual on narrow [...]

posted in Arduino, b0atg1rl, Boating, Canals, Geeky, Narrowboats, Off The Grid, Task 22 - Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months, Teensy | tagged with , , , , , , | Comments (1)

« Previous Posts