Narrowboat and UK inland waterways ( canal and river )
A community for UK inland waterways enthusiasts. While boating is our main topic. Any UK canal or river based discussion is allowed.
Rules:
1: Be polite. If you have nothing good to say, say nothing. I am not banning rants. Just asking folks to take a min and consider the wording. I want every waterways user to feel welcome here. We should then be able to build a resource where folks can ask for advice as they plan some event. This means walkers cyclists fishermen boaters all have help and advice to give relevent to other users.
So please feel free to tell folks about an event that are things hard for you. We all enjoy joining in on the odd rant. But remember to use wording referring to the indevidual not the community they are a member of or activity they are partaking in. This way others with the same needs can learn from your needs from them while expressing their own from you.
I know this sounds like I am talking to 5yo. But really I do not want this to become Facebook like. In the way groups often attack each other.
2: No SPAM or sales ads. If demand exists. We can create a boats for sale wanted community. But please let's keep them off this community.
3: No NSFW. No one need narrowboats gonewild. Trust me you don't want me to join in so don't temp me.
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She's beautiful!
She desperatly needs a cleaner paint job. Previose owner had no idea about keying to the previose coat.
In the next year or 2 we plan to paint it midnight blue with orange accents. Obviosely keep a bright white roof. Makes a huge diff in the sun. But as most of the roof will be covered in solar next year. Again we are not sure how that will work heat wise.
White top is the only way. Made a huge difference just cleaning and repainting the roof when we got our boat. I can't imagine what it must be like to have a dark topped boat in this weather!
We have a couple of largish panels towards the stern (above our bedroom). I'd say it keeps the heat off somewhat. We got a deal on bifacial panels, so perhaps this summer when it gets really hot we'll put some foil down on the roof with the double win of reflecting heat and maybe adding a few more watts to our solar input. Not that we'd need them on the hottest days of course... Although a small A/C unit is probably within our power budget for those days now I think of it!
Ours is very much in need of a paint job. When we painted the roof, we sanded back and fertan'd some rust spots on the side, with the good intention of painting the sides later. That was a couple of years back, poor thing! Maybe this year.