Tag Archives: Task 22 – Live on a narrow boat for at least 6 months

Mar

26

2013

Harry Beck Style Canal Map

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 [...]

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Oct

02

2012

Cunning Plans

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. [...]

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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

21

2012

Springer for sale

UPDATE! nbArianrhod is also listed on SoYouWannaBuyABoat.com. Tomorrow (Thursday 23rd), b0atg1rl and I will be down at her, as we have a couple of viewings, If you want to have a look, or want further details, please contact her. ‘nbArianrhod’ is a 40ft Springer, built by Springer Engineering, of Market Harborough she was built in the [...]

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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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Jun

15

2012

Hippy’s cause trouble

Some of you may think I have some hippy tendancys; being that I live on a boat, and that I plan to be as off grid as I can, bma and I have over a number of years had a smiler talk; he is a fan of Greenpeace, the Green party, and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). However [...]

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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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