Category Archives: Off The Grid

Apr
07
2013

On Continues Cruising and JSA

by Skippy

my contract with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) has not been renewed, so for fun I am now without a job, one of the things however I am allowed to do in the UK while applying for work is apply for JSA (Job Seekers Allowance). I am trying to do this without ending up claiming [...]

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Jan
25
2013

Boat for Sale

by Skippy

Amy and James’ of nbLuckyDuck, are putting nbLuckyDuck up for sale; nbLuckyDuck is an awesome boat, and would make a great first boat Summary Lucky Duck is a 48ft traditional stern narrowboat first registered in 1986, with a reliable BMC 1.8 engine. It sleeps 2 + 2 on a sofa bed, makes a great live-aboard [...]

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Nov
06
2012

Wireless on a boat

by Skippy

Despite living in a marina, right next to the wireless box arial, We have very little signal (red arrow on the side of the building 60 foot away). Looking at the router, it looks like it is a TP Link WR841N, while this £20/30 router could work well in a house, it suffers from being [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Aug
30
2012

View our boat

by Skippy

Following on from Springer for Sale b0atg1rl and I will be down at nbArianrhod on Friday and Monday. If you want to come by Frouds Bridge marina and say hi. Please contact us via SoYouWannaBuyABoat.

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Aug
12
2012

An update

by Skippy

It’s been a fair while since I last wrote an update to my blog; back then b0atg1rl and I were looking for a boat; since then we have bought ourselves a 58ft Semi-Trad called nbSteven (the name will be changed when she next comes out the water!), b0atg1rl is currently bringing her blog about life afloat [...]

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