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SWMBO is away!!
Life has returned to normal!The boat has normal order with bottles of acertone cans of antifouling toolbox a hydralic jack use to position the engine,bits of the replaced electronic ignition mixed together with old tea towels(its that time of the year)
Around the galley are jars of bamboo shoots bean sprouts, packets of chilly pepper, tins of cocanut milk bought while Lidel has promotion.The tables full of notes & for some reason charts 2122P 7050P & 6970P???? for the N.west & N.east Corsica & Elba??umm have to put those away!
Lunch has been decided as the cafè menue today is "mushrooms with quails egg" then "Lieu a au pineau" pineau being a drink made in the Charent,15 degrees??I think? sounds good!!We cant decide what wine to drink with it??Well leave that up to the cafè!!Cant aford to be specific!!A "bottle(one)" costs between 6 & 14€!! a liter of good open white wine about 4€!!!
This morning i was in a cafè thats has the IHT with a garraf of white wine from "Cassis" that the cafè has newly in stock!I always thought of "cassis" as that thick sweet drink (17 degrees??)that woman add to a poor white wine??
This was from"Clos Sainte-Magdeleine" they said it was very good!and thankfully not to expensive!!(this mornings was "offered"with fresh bread and ham!(paid)The day has got off to a good start!Lifes normal again!Woman do seem to bring big changes??
I was sitting at a table inside enjoying the warmth behind the cafès large window the cafè being accros the road from an old commercial and fishing port most of the boats still covered one of two being got ready for the new season which is now only weeks away!
Next to me was the notice board i read through the offers for baby sitters cleaners a 1991 Peugeot 205 Diesel with "only" 380000Kms for just 3200€!!(I wondered if anyone would buy it??)Then i saw an add for a heater!!50€ better still the add had a phone number and the boats place number
I called then walked across to one of the boats being got ready.There in the cockpit was the heater.Its called "Rivièra" attached to the first "R" is a read circle inside that is an inverted "c" with a red flam?
The heater is a gas one about 18 inches long x 12 inches wide and 12 inches deep It has about 20 heating tubes and burner at the end in a green box,its started with a "pizzo" and has a remote temp control.The dust cover has warnings in Dutch first then French,English & German in that order Has anyone ever seen one or know anything about them?
If we go to the Belgium canals instead of the Midi it will be idea!Stella has a list of absolutly forbidden heaters of heating "projects"!!
Last year it almost never stopped raining & was cool!!Now i always remove the taylors diesel and tank to clean and store as its far to hot even for Belgium in August!
Last year i made an alcohol heater!It worked wonderfully but had a design fault!I fitted it in the cabin it was a container of alcohol that i heated then the vapor from a tube with a multi jet nozzle heated a galvanized chimney section with house bricks inside,I got it going it heated & heated & heated!!The chimney glowed red then white hot and still hotter!
Stella thought it might melt or explode(so did i!!) and grabed her things and took then onto the key, eventually the alcohol was finished not before the heat caused the jet to roar like a jet engine!!Was quite impressive!I hadent fitted a fule on/off!
Stellas things got wet as it began raining again!!She was so angry i went to hide in a cafè which seemed to make it worse when she found me!
Later (weeks later) that forgoten i found an old webaso hot air heater for free from a garage that had had it in an old truck trailer.When i brought that back to try she refused to let it aboard!!
I set it up on the key filled the petrol tank with just one liter of petrol i hoped the rain would hold off,primed it then pressed the button to pre heat it then started it!It ran well!!blowing lots of hot air out but quite loud!
I got Stella from the cafe to come and look she finnished her coffee & we went back it was just begining to drizzel,when we got back the it had stopped blowing hot air and was glowing cherry red!i took off the petrol tank as the no off had rusted open a pool of petrol formed around the heater white petrol vapor was comeing from the heater!!
I went for a fire extinguisher while Stella grabbed her things and put them on the key well away from our new heater!She then asked me if i thought it better to put it just 3 feet beside the cabin window if it blew up or caught fire??She had a point!It began raining!!She was really angry!!
The last DIY heater was a blow lamp i found at a flee market smaller than the one i have now for the bread oven but heated well. I bought a galvanized chimney section with a "T" where the chimeny went,i put bricks in again and the blow lamp roared into the tube!!It heated really well and was controllable
After exhaustive testing well away from the boat,in an empty field, Stella watching through binoculars, it was approved! I set it up aboard using the existing chimney outlet,we waited until the weather was fine just in case she wanted to evacuate,she warned me what might happen next time if she has to take her things off in the poring rain again!!!
All went well!We had a warm cabin but not hot and controllable!Then one fine day she did the washing i went to the cafè.When i got back she had gone shopping,i got the heater going as it was late afternoon rain was forcast & it was only 12 degrees,
Sometimes the blow lamp would squirt a long flame and burn for a while before i reheated and tried again,its parrafin! This was quite normal it had done it many times before,i let it burn a huge flam inside safe!!
The next thing Stella was on deck going mad!!Stamping her feet and screaming at me!!It seems the flames had come out of the chimney and were burning her under things and the black smoke had blackened everything!!I stopped the heather and fled!!
After that we sat in blankets to read of spent the evenings in a cafè watching the rain or reading
She made me promise never to use petrol alcohol or parafin in a DIY heater again!!Angry she was she glowed cherry red with rage when she found me!!
This is a Gas heater!!So allowed!!I hope someone has heard of this make?????
Life has returned to normal!The boat has normal order with bottles of acertone cans of antifouling toolbox a hydralic jack use to position the engine,bits of the replaced electronic ignition mixed together with old tea towels(its that time of the year)
Around the galley are jars of bamboo shoots bean sprouts, packets of chilly pepper, tins of cocanut milk bought while Lidel has promotion.The tables full of notes & for some reason charts 2122P 7050P & 6970P???? for the N.west & N.east Corsica & Elba??umm have to put those away!
Lunch has been decided as the cafè menue today is "mushrooms with quails egg" then "Lieu a au pineau" pineau being a drink made in the Charent,15 degrees??I think? sounds good!!We cant decide what wine to drink with it??Well leave that up to the cafè!!Cant aford to be specific!!A "bottle(one)" costs between 6 & 14€!! a liter of good open white wine about 4€!!!
This morning i was in a cafè thats has the IHT with a garraf of white wine from "Cassis" that the cafè has newly in stock!I always thought of "cassis" as that thick sweet drink (17 degrees??)that woman add to a poor white wine??
This was from"Clos Sainte-Magdeleine" they said it was very good!and thankfully not to expensive!!(this mornings was "offered"with fresh bread and ham!(paid)The day has got off to a good start!Lifes normal again!Woman do seem to bring big changes??
I was sitting at a table inside enjoying the warmth behind the cafès large window the cafè being accros the road from an old commercial and fishing port most of the boats still covered one of two being got ready for the new season which is now only weeks away!
Next to me was the notice board i read through the offers for baby sitters cleaners a 1991 Peugeot 205 Diesel with "only" 380000Kms for just 3200€!!(I wondered if anyone would buy it??)Then i saw an add for a heater!!50€ better still the add had a phone number and the boats place number
I called then walked across to one of the boats being got ready.There in the cockpit was the heater.Its called "Rivièra" attached to the first "R" is a read circle inside that is an inverted "c" with a red flam?
The heater is a gas one about 18 inches long x 12 inches wide and 12 inches deep It has about 20 heating tubes and burner at the end in a green box,its started with a "pizzo" and has a remote temp control.The dust cover has warnings in Dutch first then French,English & German in that order Has anyone ever seen one or know anything about them?
If we go to the Belgium canals instead of the Midi it will be idea!Stella has a list of absolutly forbidden heaters of heating "projects"!!
Last year it almost never stopped raining & was cool!!Now i always remove the taylors diesel and tank to clean and store as its far to hot even for Belgium in August!
Last year i made an alcohol heater!It worked wonderfully but had a design fault!I fitted it in the cabin it was a container of alcohol that i heated then the vapor from a tube with a multi jet nozzle heated a galvanized chimney section with house bricks inside,I got it going it heated & heated & heated!!The chimney glowed red then white hot and still hotter!
Stella thought it might melt or explode(so did i!!) and grabed her things and took then onto the key, eventually the alcohol was finished not before the heat caused the jet to roar like a jet engine!!Was quite impressive!I hadent fitted a fule on/off!
Stellas things got wet as it began raining again!!She was so angry i went to hide in a cafè which seemed to make it worse when she found me!
Later (weeks later) that forgoten i found an old webaso hot air heater for free from a garage that had had it in an old truck trailer.When i brought that back to try she refused to let it aboard!!
I set it up on the key filled the petrol tank with just one liter of petrol i hoped the rain would hold off,primed it then pressed the button to pre heat it then started it!It ran well!!blowing lots of hot air out but quite loud!
I got Stella from the cafe to come and look she finnished her coffee & we went back it was just begining to drizzel,when we got back the it had stopped blowing hot air and was glowing cherry red!i took off the petrol tank as the no off had rusted open a pool of petrol formed around the heater white petrol vapor was comeing from the heater!!
I went for a fire extinguisher while Stella grabbed her things and put them on the key well away from our new heater!She then asked me if i thought it better to put it just 3 feet beside the cabin window if it blew up or caught fire??She had a point!It began raining!!She was really angry!!
The last DIY heater was a blow lamp i found at a flee market smaller than the one i have now for the bread oven but heated well. I bought a galvanized chimney section with a "T" where the chimeny went,i put bricks in again and the blow lamp roared into the tube!!It heated really well and was controllable
After exhaustive testing well away from the boat,in an empty field, Stella watching through binoculars, it was approved! I set it up aboard using the existing chimney outlet,we waited until the weather was fine just in case she wanted to evacuate,she warned me what might happen next time if she has to take her things off in the poring rain again!!!
All went well!We had a warm cabin but not hot and controllable!Then one fine day she did the washing i went to the cafè.When i got back she had gone shopping,i got the heater going as it was late afternoon rain was forcast & it was only 12 degrees,
Sometimes the blow lamp would squirt a long flame and burn for a while before i reheated and tried again,its parrafin! This was quite normal it had done it many times before,i let it burn a huge flam inside safe!!
The next thing Stella was on deck going mad!!Stamping her feet and screaming at me!!It seems the flames had come out of the chimney and were burning her under things and the black smoke had blackened everything!!I stopped the heather and fled!!
After that we sat in blankets to read of spent the evenings in a cafè watching the rain or reading
She made me promise never to use petrol alcohol or parafin in a DIY heater again!!Angry she was she glowed cherry red with rage when she found me!!
This is a Gas heater!!So allowed!!I hope someone has heard of this make?????
