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Don't take this as I told you so but now I'm sailing on the open seas the previous owner of my boat drummed it into me to maintain a spares box with one each of anything that could reasonably fail. Filters, belts, fuses, wire, nuts and bolts and yes, impeller. Also, I change mine every year and clean the heat exchanger. Now I know why.

My lord, I rest my case! And members of the jury, see above posts!

I'm going to stick my head above the parapet here but I find that a lot of posts turn into discussions more suited to message programs rather than forum posts by members who know each other well and the whole topic spirals into friendly banter that has nothing to do with the topic. This gives the feeling that you have wondered in to a friends discussion. I remember a thread that turned into a discussion on shoes although fun it meant you had to wade through a page of nothing important that really could be messaged to each other. And duck

The dogs good I suppose...how is it at putting out fires?

Something like this thought process. Users on river? Not a lot. Our paying travellers who will moan and claim delay compensation to our franchise? More than a few. Hmm, who's more important to network rail and who's going to make the most noise and cost votes to whom ever?

In the Med, that's nearly how we do it. Nearly all marinas are stern on so we drop the anchor, keep that line tight as we motor back ready to pick up the lazy lines for the stern. Believe me the cross winds are quite something but the bow is steady and from personal experience at eccles, that is how I do it.

How about, "Fancy an early one Bob?" "Can't got a lift at 4:15" "Nah, tell them we have a problem and we will do it first thing tomorrow."

This not a fanboy forum is it? Or is it beginning to turn into one? All opinions are equal as long as no one gets insulted. And no ones opinion is more equal than others. The big danger is forming a little gang of opinions that no one is allowed to comment on.

I'm sorry I did not think it was compulsory to read this thread. My mistake then. That's probably why you dislike the thread so much. A lot of people said much the same to me when I bought my westerly Longbow and taught myself how to sail. Really hard to hear them as I sail off into the big blue.

Why break a gas tight connection? No guarantee it would seal again. Turn water off, drain out as much as you can, leave tap open to provide room for expansion

More birdwatchers, more people visit with knitted vests made out of shredded wheat, more they want to freeze The Broads in time and more the boating community gets pushed out.

Guilty as charged. I don't mind a Tescos bar selection with a great meal cooked on board at a fraction of a night out in a pub. Spend more money on the boat then..

As an aside, who has a sight hole fitted in their engine compartment in order to inject fire suppression?

Sometimes you get an unresponsive throttle because some boat yards set tick over high so that the high power alternator can charge the batteries. Sitting at 750 revs won't do it. So you will notice tick over at about a thousand. Most pumps won't let you set it this high unless you adjust throttle lever stop and you end up getting a big dead zone on the lever. Trouble is this still Will push you through the water fairly briskly makes slow manoeuvres tricky.

Was it a holiday park?