Simplistically, a ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship. But you could debate this for a long time. I have done. To quote a friend (and Ship Science graduate) that I have posed this question to in the past: “There’s no right answer because there […]
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Some more books, Book 13 I read on the train too and from work, I have got some more free Kindle books to read soon, and some other books to re-read and hopefully finish, but first: Book 13 – Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship It has been more […]
This boat is on our old morring, she is a Beautiful, spacious, unusual 45′ narrowboat for sale in Manchester city centre: Moored at New Islington Marina, Ancoats (10 minutes from Northern Quarter). The waiting list for this city-centre marina is currently two years. This is a great opportunity to own […]
I downloaded Random Nerd’s Build a Home Automation System for $100 and started testing it out, A while ago I aquired a Fish Dish (not sure where from), It’s a small PCB that fits on the GPIO header of the Raspberry Pi. I set up NodeRed and MQTT on the […]
With winter coming to an end (we hope) and the hot water on our boat coming from two sources; the fire and the engine, it was looking like the kettle was going to be the only way to make hot water. However after some random googling I found something called […]
More than a few years ago, I bought myself a Remote Control boat, a Kyosho Wave Master: The WaveMaster is a semi scale model of an F-1 tunnel hull racing boat. Tunnel hulls work by trapping a cushion of air between the hull and water to reduce friction which allows […]
While reversing out of our mooring at New Islington Marina we suffered a slight technicals issue… the engine stopped making happy happy noises and started sounding sad. So to continue our way up the Ashton Canal to Packet Boat Company we had some help… A big thank you to all […]
Tas, Bob and I headed over to the National Model Engineering and Modelling Exhibition 2015 in Harrogate.
Following on from the plans to put a path in between the Chips building (Ancoats) and New Islington Tram stop , over the Ashton canal, this is what they have managed to achieve! A chain is 22 yards! the path is approximately 44 yards long, or 2 chains long, but […]
On Saturday I went along to the Canal and River Trust’s National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere port (on the Shropshire Union Canal) for the Model Boat Show.
For a while I have been planning on cleaning up the Photovoltaic cable run on nbSteven, on Amazon I found these MC4 (Multi connect) (5 Pack) and these Y leads. According to the Datasheet the they are rated to 30 A at 1000 V DC which should be more than […]
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a moveable navigable aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell in Greater Manchester, England. It carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal. Bob joined us for our trip back up to New Islington Marina, but since we were on the Bridgewater canal near the Barton […]
57ft Aqualine Manhattan Narrowboat cruiser stern. 57ft Aqualine Manhattan narrowboat in good interior condition powered by Isuzu 35hp diesel engine with 40 gallon fuel tank and stainless steel propeller shaft. Steering is from large cruiser stern with teak seating/rail. Layout comprises double bedroom to stern then moving forward large bathroom […]
One of the workshops at EMF Camp was Matt Little’s workshop on off grid solar Photo Voltaic, however due to being stuck in traffic I was unable to attend it. as some one intrested in off grid living (being on a boat and all) After the fact I spoke to […]
For my boat automation system I plan to use RJ45 sockets and cat 5 cable for interconnecting the master and the nodes. Some nodes will have their own 12 V supply for larger loads, but ones that are just for switches and other transducers (sensors) will need to have 12 […]
I found the following code extracts for the Arduino (I have a Diavolino) to work with the RS485 shield from here: Code for the transmitter: Code for the receiver: And a guide for the R-Pi shield (from here). Putting the two together (I don’t have two Arduinos and shields) so […]
The Link Sprite RS485 GPIO Sheild for a Raspberry Pi alows you to make use of (abuse) the RS232 port in the R-Pi’s GPIO as an RS 485 Port. There are several good advantages to RS 485 over 232 and some awsome ones. RS485 is capable of both multidrop and […]
Under planning proposal 106102/JO/2014/N2 there is a plan to put a bridge, and access in from the Marina side of the Ashton Canal to the Tram stop. Application Form Photographs Proposed Plans Supplementary Information It looks like the hand rail work is either like for like on the bridge, or […]
The Association of Continues Cruisers is now operating outside its constitutional remit. this is not opinion, this is a fact, where my opinion is present in this post it will be written as such. The Constitution was the central document for the ACC, it was front and centre on the […]
Over the weekend I received a letter from Julie Roscoe (head of planning at Manchester City Council) informing me that application number 104709/FO/2014/N1: “erection of a part 2, part single story building to form a new 2-form entry school with associated car parking, landscaping, play areas, boundary treatment and vehicular […]
We have been looking for a new stove to put on nbSteven fora while. Bob suggested looking at a Boatman Stove from Northern Fabrication Services. The Boatman stove comes in two options, one without a back boiler, and one with. The back boiler allows the stove to heat water, since […]