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Many years ago I was told by an old boatyard owner that anyone who sets out to convert battery power to heat is on a road to nowhere.

A few weeks ago I had a mardle with someone who knows the boat well - it involved a great deal of tooth-sucking.

Gentleman single handers of a certain age who are careful about hydration might find one or two useful if kept within reach of the helm.

That looks very much like a ThermX heater - we have one as the only built in heating on No Worries. Its passed 3 BSSs so far and takes the edge off nicely but we only have a small volume to heat. In the depths of winter we try to moor by a 'lecky post and fire up the fan heater.

Paul, the £10.40 could be courtesy of a sparks working on the 'lecky point. We were fortunate to be moored at Dilham some years back when the points were being installed. We provided the guys installing said post with cuppas and a loo, when they finished safety testing and making sure the card reader worked they left us with just under a fiver on the meter!

My dear old Mum (a psychiatric sister tutor) used similar tactics on my kid sister. After a fierce interview without coffee anything left on the floor when she went out was bin-bagged and piled behind the garden shed. Eventually she started running out of Chelsea Girl going out schmutter - "Mum! Wheres my sequinned hot pants?" "Behind the shed, third bag down" She learned! 50 years on we still wind her up about it.

Do that don't? That did do!

There seems to be an awful lot of kipping going on.

It could be stink weed- theres shedloads of it at Fairhaven Water Gardens.

We have a Wavestream filter, it removes oil and other pollutants from the bilge pump outlet, dead simple cartridge filter. Passed three BSS tests so far, apparently you can drink the output but I've never tried it.

A cynical old curmudgeon might suggest it's a measure to obscure the identity of a boat that may or may not have just clattered into another boat and hammered off into the sunset leaving only a trail of empty Stella cans.

I well remember NorVic being the school shoe of choice and weren't those hideous sandals with a little flower cut out in the front and white sponge soles also made in Norwich?

Tuning was so much easier in the good old days - roll of chequered tape down the side, STP sticker on the back and a good dose of castor in the tank - jobs a good'un 😂

The only broad I wouldn't advise mudweighting on is Salhouse as it has a firm sandy bottom rather than black gloopy mud so the weight just rolls about rather than sinking in. If you must, the best holding seems to be in the bay near the island at the upstream end.