Tag Archives: Boating

Sep

04

2012

nbArianrhod is now sold

nbArianrhod boat has now been sold, b0atg1rl and I are now offering soyouwannabuyaboat.com for other peoples uses, If you are interested in utilising So You Wanna Buy A Boat please use the contact form to send b0atg1rl a message. We are now thinking about how to utilise So You Wanna Buy A Boat as a classified site for [...]

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Aug

30

2012

View our boat

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

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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Jun

18

2012

Boat Hunting

B0atg1rl and I went boat hunting for a craft to call our own, this outing started with a virtual perambulation of the normal haunts, and then a trip to North Wales; while poking around Chirk Marina we came across a boat that looks like it will make us a lovely home. We found nbSteven, a 57ft narrowboat, built in 1992 [...]

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May

29

2012

Share the Space, Drop the Pace

After abandoning ”The Two Ting’s” Campaign, and removing the Tow-path Cycling Permit, British Waterways, (Canal and Rivers Trust) in partnership with TfL, have had a cunning idea to make cycling and walking on the London Cycle paths to coexist in a more peaceful manor. Given that the canal towpaths round most of the route they are talking about do not meet the minimum standards [...]

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Apr

30

2012

Solar Panel Research

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

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

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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