Category Archives: Transport

Apr
30
2012

Solar Panel Research

by Philip McGaw

I am wondering how much energy we use from nbArianrhod’s batteries (3 x 110Ah) per day; I know this number will change over the course of a year; and that most of our peek energy requirements come from gas rather than electricity; however on average we still run the engine about two hours every day [...]

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Apr
25
2012

Book 4: Living Afloat

by Skippy

Peter Underwood’s (@Livingafloat) “Living Afloat” was a book that I picked up when it was free on Kindle; I follow Peter on Twitter where he is an active member of the #boatsthattweet group. The Kindle book seems to be unavailable; however you can still download the PDF files from Norbury Wharf Ltd’s Site here. This [...]

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Apr
20
2012

Solar Panels

by Skippy

A long while ago I met up with Amy, and James from nbLuckyDuck, and one of the things that was intresting is that for a large part of the year they are off-grid with using a 136W flexable solar panel so very rarely run the generator. there has been discussion about other cost breakdowns here, and a lively chat [...]

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Apr
19
2012

Dundas Basin Elsan Point

by Skippy

The Elsan disposal point at Dundas Basin on the Kennet & Avon Canal was taken out of service back in November 2011 and has remained broken since; British Waterways plan to have a temporary elsan point operational some time in April, with full repairs coming on-line in August this year. BW say the cost of this temporary disposal point at Dundas while it [...]

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Apr
12
2012

02 and the nanny state

by Philip McGaw

I finally got an answer back from O2 regarding the blocking of my website; it would appear that they have unilaterally decided that skippy.org.uk and 365.skippy.org.uk are Parental Controlled… The Website status checker  when you type in skippy.org.uk gives you this screen: Which to be honest is about as much use as a chocolate teapot; and gives you no information [...]

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Apr
12
2012

O2 have blocked my 365

by Philip McGaw

  My Project 365 site seems to have been blocked from being accessed over 3G by O2, I have written about my feelings on O2′s content blocking before, most people I assume have already got pissed off with it and bitten the bullet since and ‘verified’ themselves since content blocking was imposed in March 2011. The restrictions are at the DNS level, meaning [...]

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Apr
10
2012

Return of the Marauder

by Skippy

My Suzuki Marauder has turned up;  it was stolen from Random Zero‘s way back in September of last year; Random Zero and I are waiting for the police to give us full details on the muppit who stole her, with a view to starting procedings against them, or (if they are a minor) their parents [...]

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Apr
02
2012

Book 1: The Somersetshire Coal Canal

by Skippy

Roger Halse’s “The Somersetshire Coal Canal – A Second Pictorial Journey” “This new volume provides readers with an in depth look into the Somersetshire Coal Canal. The previous volume of old photographs of this delightful short canal, which branched off the Kennet & Avon Canal just south of Bath, brought together what was then considered [...]

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