----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Rushton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Re: Re: Re: Marine engines [but now on Consistent Rules]
> > I don't think it is a case of battery charging - more a case of > heating up hot > water and providing power for onboard mod cons. I guess I'm just out of touch. Is the typical hireboat now fitted with an engine fed calorifier rather than a gas water heater, and a 230V auxiliary alternator? > Whether this is > *demand led* > or a response to the land based tourist industry I don't know. > Presumably it isn't feasible at present to provide hire boats with > mains > hook-up, but I wouldn't be surprised, in the longer term, if BW > provide > moorings similar to those at Llangollen throughout the network and > hire boats > are provided with mains hook-up and designated overnight moorings :-( > Also following the touring caravan scene where the vast majority cannot exist for even one night without being plugged into a hookup capable of delivering the full 16 amps. There was a thread some time ago on a caravanning newsgroup about the need for hookups; those who experimented were surprised to find that the huge leisure batteries they had been lugging around for years were actually capable of running the 'van systems unaided for several days. A couple of years ago I saw a motorcaravanner leave a remote Highland site in disgust after complaining vehemently to the owner because the hookups could only deliver 5 amps. Increasingly there is also a tendancy to have two "Aquarolls", and spend the day trundling fresh water to the caravan and waste water to the disposal point. Some of this may be connected with the fashion in some quarters for showering at a frequency bordering on OCD. -- Niall ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
