hello happy new year and all that
although this uh video is from autumn 21 because i've just been i've got loads of stuff going
on at the moment which i can't wait to share with you later on the year and um yeah so
today's video is gonna be after i got stuck on the river the fire brigade had to actually
come and get me out i managed to the next morning um well here we go we're seeing the
naughty lass going upstream so against the flow a little bit and uh around on the um
the outside bend because you can see there's a beach there and it yeah that really beached
me anyway and this is Beal Lock on towards Knottingly - i didn't film much from this
town although it is a great stop the steam packet still 'pub of the week' but this video
is more about my boat safety scheme examination and to see if i passed because i've got an
old boat 1981 this was built a lot of things can deteriorate and go wrong but i've been
keeping up on my maintenance in general so hopefully that'll see me through let's see
what happens
got my bss today - boat safety scheme - examination chap on board called Rhys is having a look
at ventilation about um my oven and all the gas and electrics just to make sure it's not
going to suddenly blow up injuring myself and and any anyone else who's near the boat
that's the whole point of it
but while he's doing that i've got some spring cleaning even though it's it's autumn i mean
literally the leaves are falling as i uh as i say this where i'm moored here it's quite
a nice little space just to get everything out and have a look at what i need and what
i don't need
last time i failed my bss because of this (propane gas) bubble tester and a few other
things but this is the one i'm worried about i hope i hope it's all right and i'm actually
going to get through
looks fine
so i don't even know how the bubble tester works!
Rhys: so it diverts the gas through the little window of fluid you press and hold the button
down for two minutes uh and you shouldn't see any bubbles in that time if there's bubbles
you know you've got a gas leak right so you shouldn't see any bubbles in
your bubble tester I get it now, I get it!
What do you think Rhys?
We're all good!
Good for another 4 years Robbie!
uh basically if you go online to the boat safety scheme website and there's a little
section called find an examiner okay and you go on there it's all done in areas so you
go to your location and you type in 'find examiner'it brings up the list of names and
you can see who's closest to you and you can ring up a few ask what their price is you
know see if they seem nice or not what's the most common thing that people seem
to fail on?
um batteries aren't secure the battery terminals uh aren't covered so you could drop a spanner
on the top of them and short circuit the batteries uh another thing is ventilation it's not a
fail but a lot of boats don't have enough ventilation for their uh for the appliances
they got on board as well so that's something to watch out for um and it's surprising how
many boats do have a little gas leak you know when i come to test it what one that you're
not even aware of?
yes yes that's it quite often you know it's been like that for a year or two perhaps you
know so you just so it's good to check it and make sure everything's okay you know it's
really important right well thanks so much reese for coming to traveling out here to
Rhys: you're welcome Robbie: to see the boat
Rhys: you're welcome and uh yes see you in four years maybe!
Ha ha yeah four years that's great it sounds like a long time but it soon comes around
and now i've got a pay you have I?! uh yeah unfortunately
oh no Well Rhys has just gone and i'm really happy
that he has passed my boat so everything is in order - there is one item that he said
i need to probably attend to but I've forgotten about that now haha no it was to do with my
um stove so around the collar of the stove i need to replace what's usually known as
the fire cement it's actually just some 'heat mate' sealant and i've bought the wrong sealant
there's two different types basically i needed to get the higher temperature one so uh yeah
i'll nip out and get one of those and reseal it apart from that everything's good for another
four years so i'm well happy!
now just gotta sort out all this crap...
right things are looking good i found some brass plaques that i thought i lost including
one that says ripon canal and one there says the Tardebigge flight and then i've got a
few things that maybe might might be worth something perhaps i can ebay these uh some
things i'm just going to take to the charity shop the things i'm definitely gonna have
to keep because it's like things like the magnet and ear defenders and spare rope and
i've got this which i've put together i'm quite proud of this but also i've discovered
people send me stuff sometimes to try out um i don't like to really feature products
on my channel but i'll tell you about this because i think it might be quite a good idea
i'm going to try it marine 16 diesel fuel complete i don't really know anything about
this but i've been sent it and apparently you can just add this 1,000ml/1 litre it's
sufficient to treat a thousand litres of fuel (1/1000) my tank is full at the moment so
i know there's about 225 litres
i'll use a quarter of this that should do it and then i'll not have to worry about diesel
bug combats all of the effects of using biodiesel and ultra low sulphur diesel gives lubricity
cleaner easier starting reduces emissions improves fuel consumption reduces fuel line
and injector deposits to zero i don't particularly understand all of those things but um it can't
hurt can it
put in a bit much but it does say overdosing won't harm won't harm anything so job done
i guess that's all i have to do is just pour in a bit of liquid i think it helps if you
pour it in at the bottom of the tank before you fill up but i just keep mine topped up
anyway because yeah condensation within the fuel tank doesn't sound good to me anyway
that doesn't sound like something i want it's one of the causes of diesel bug apparently
but i really don't know enough about it to me it's just one of those things that gets
said and i don't know if i've got any proof that diesel bug is a thing but if there is
more biodiesel about on the system then maybe it's something i should be worried about anyway
i'm not worried about now because i've just put that stuff in it so a thank you to marine16
for sending me this and the cleaning stuff that i've now gotta use because i'm talking
about it!
just about to set off again it's a new day i've got a new look because i've just been
to the barbers um just down the road and which i can definitely recommend they're really
really good and as you can see what a close shave turkish barbers they don't mess around
you know i've also been to the local yeah sort of sandwich shop got um coffee and a
bacon and egg panini um panini just because I'm posh really because they don't normally
serve it like that but they're very accommodating i can recommend well i haven't actually tried
it yet but i can recommend the service it was very friendly going back to the boat safety
scheme it is partly set up so that pollution incidents are much less common and i'm not
talking about rubbish like this that i'm just fishing out just so it doesn't wrap around
my propeller i'm on about oil and diesel any kind of fuel leaking into the watercourse
i'm just about to set off but i've noticed some pollution that i've i've reported before
because this is what you can do if you see diesel or petrol or whatever leaking into
the canal which i can see happening right now you can ring up the environment agency
and report it and i've done that and hopefully won't see that happening again but as i'm
about to move off i'm not gonna know so if you're a boat and you're passing let me know
if we're still seeing a discolouration in the water
before we head into pub of the week castleford uh i just need to thank a few people here
they are being indicted uh inducted to the crank it crew this week! greg and sylvia boehmer
ed de quincy charles paul sheila moore chris watkeys steve mitchelmore tim knight and let's
not forget producer Craig Goodship thank you everyone yeah thank you so much let's hit
the pub!
welcome to the griffin inn in castleford this is on lock lane that's right by where all
the boats are moored and these are your hosts kevin and wendy and this is their lovely pub
and it's in here that i got a glimpse of what i might be like in 20 years time sat in a
pub holding court with three lovely ladies probably boring them about canal history um
and then later on as kev points out sitting in grumpy git's beer garden just one of several
classic pub novelty signs that um kev's got here you've got the man cave um little fire
outside as well pot bellied fire would you call it and a lovely little garden i didn't
expect to see that if you look on the griffin's facebook page you'll see that there's loads
of music events going on and quizzes and all sorts but if you look around the place it's
more of a sports pub really because of all the links to leeds united football club or
castleford tigers which are the main (rugby league) team in the area and all of the games
are televised on sky sports and there's also a dart board there too looking at the beers
i actually wasn't drinking because i had to drive that day so i just had a coke but talking
to the landlord he had some interesting things to say about running a pub, drinking and also
car insurance have a listen to this well my wife were fetched up in a pub and
my mum used to have a pub and that so... but we don't think it's right for customers
to see us drink behind bar We never have done and we never will do
your insurance might be say £150 (it's definitely not that it's a lot more than that!) ok well
my insurance probably because i'm a landlord and this is my own pub could be 450 pounds
because i'm more liable to drink because i'm here behind bar and that more than what you
are what a customer is that is a sobering thought i wouldn't have
thought that was amazing yeah it is well seems like I learn something every day
i'm going to leave you with this song here by fairground attraction because the video
which i glimpsed in the pub featured a band on a canal and this canal is actually the
regents canal but completely unrecognizable to what it is today
hello there ey up!
thank you so much for watching this video i really hope you enjoyed it i certainly enjoyed
making it and yeah there'll be many more to come i'm doing a lot more on the canals these
days so you should see a lot more content from me if i can pull my socks up and get
my finger out!
loads of stuff to look forward to - i'm turning 40 this year so i'm gonna have to have a little
little bash at some point - looking forward optimistically and i hope it's a fantastic
year for you too - cheers for watching bye-bye and keep on cranking! never.
stop.