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Right, Just noticed a red puddle where I left the barge earlier, quick taste revealed it was antifreeze, not blood.

Anyway, seems to be piddling out of a small hole on a bracket... thing. (on the attached photo circled in toddler-green crayon)

So, what is it?
 

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Yeah, red and sweet is deffo antifreeze/coolant, ATF is a darker colour and I would get that by smell rather than taste and also sheer bliddy slipperyness!
 
Jon Dor said:
You could probably get about 18 or so narrow boats in Jondor...like sardines in a can!!!
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Maybe half a dozen, maybe a few more. A full size working boat is 72 foot by 7 foot beam.
My boat is only 65 foot by 7, lucky I don't suffer from size anxiety! :D
 
Turboman said:
Maybe half a dozen, maybe a few more. A full size working boat is 72 foot by 7 foot beam.
My boat is only 65 foot by 7, lucky I don't suffer from size anxiety! :D
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Hahaha...I figured the minute I sent the post that I bet you had a 72'-er! Jondor is 114x17'6"x10'moulded depth. After a play with the plasma cutter, we'd still get a good few down under the coamings
 
Jon Dor said:
Hahaha...I figured the minute I sent the post that I bet you had a 72'-er! Jondor is 114x17'6"x10'moulded depth. After a play with the plasma cutter, we'd still get a good few down under the coamings
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There used to be tanker narrowboats operating a similar trade to Jondor, on the canal system, as you would expect.

They sometimes used to carry oil, sometimes tar. It was considered an easy cargo by boatmen, as they didn't have to load or unload it, it was just pumped into the tank.

It was also a hazardous cargo at first, the whole hull, apart from the engine room, was used as a tank, no partitions, no baffles.
Several boats sank when the load slopped backwards or forwards in the hull, causing one end of the boat to go under water.
After a time, the yards started building the tankers with several smaller tanks within the hull, and the problems ceased.
 
Turboman said:
There used to be tanker narrowboats operating a similar trade to Jondor, on the canal system, as you would expect.

They sometimes used to carry oil, sometimes tar. It was considered an easy cargo by boatmen, as they didn't have to load or unload it, it was just pumped into the tank.

It was also a hazardous cargo at first, the whole hull, apart from the engine room, was used as a tank, no partitions, no baffles.
Several boats sank when the load slopped backwards or forwards in the hull, causing one end of the boat to go under water.
After a time, the yards started building the tankers with several smaller tanks within the hull, and the problems ceased.
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I think there's still a few guys dispensing fuels of all types from their narrow boats along the network.
Jondor has two full-width, full height tanks that she used to transport gasoline in! Additionally, she had five full width x 4.2mts tanks welded together, with full height longitudinal solid steel partitions to stop the heavy oil from sloshing about. Nice to see fellow boaters amongst the land-lubbers here on LZ!
 
Jon Dor said:
I think there's still a few guys dispensing fuels of all types from their narrow boats along the network.
Jondor has two full-width, full height tanks that she used to transport gasoline in! Additionally, she had five full width x 4.2mts tanks welded together, with full height longitudinal solid steel partitions to stop the heavy oil from sloshing about. Nice to see fellow boaters amongst the land-lubbers here on LZ!
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There are plenty of fuel boats, trade is good for them due to liveaboards.
I rarely use them myself, I don't use coal, but I do have three diesel tanks, all of which are slow and require patience to fill, the fuel boats are always in a hurry, so I go to places on the bank that let me fill the tanks myself.

Plenty of boaters on LZ, both Inland and Yachties. I think there are more boat owners among the senior members than there are Landrovers! :D
 
Sorry about this @Berk, thread seems to have derailed a bit, but then you did say you parked the barge!

Anyway, I once had a mate who went to NZ to try and start a business flogging boat alarms. He reckoned that 1 in every 3 NZers had a boat of some sort.
Watcha reckon? (he never made it work, had to go back to being an engineer!)
 
Currently in the section that should have been labelled "now train as a gynaecologist"
 

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