JanetAnne

I believe it's a risk that can be managed by consulting the appropriate health and safety bod. Now the risk has been identified you will be pleased to hear that they will protect you from the wetness until the water is turned into dry water and you can be trusted to go near it again.

My mother in law is quite happy to take those type of calls and can keep them talking for hours. She has Alzheimer's...

Boiling water is risk on a boat especially one underway. So, having identified the risk it must be time to remove all the kettles or nail them down! Am I the only one on here fed up with having other people think for me

I'd forgotten yours. Lol Wow! How cool can you get them to run? Are we talking chilled or ice cube making?

A couple of years ago I had an Isotherm that kept refusing to cool properly. Couldn't find anyone to repair it but the local caravan dealer suggested giving it a good shake. They have a problem with vans sitting in long term storage and the gas settling. So I took it out, carefully turned it upside down and back a few times and then left it overnight. Next day I reconnected it and it worked fine. Still is. Of course any fridge shaking is at your own risk but in my case it was either shake it or bin it so I had little to lose.

I am one of the lucky ones who grew up amongst the hire fleets in the 70's. At the end of each season I got to take a couple of mates for a week on one of the boats. I usually managed to beg, borrow or steal Emerald (Newson Boats if you want to look it up) and am sat here now realising my first week away we were all age 15! The following year was Topaz and then Emerald again in 1980. We even left our bikes in the customers car park.

At the point they condemned London Rascal to the 'no longer a suitable hirer' bin the whole policy lost any credibility.

As a rule of thumb I believe that your mudweight should come in exactly the right size to be a- just not quite heavy enough to hold the boat and b- just too heavy to haul back aboard once you realise a!

I'd heard that rumour as well

As long as they can be seen by the ranger there is no specific requirement to stick them to the hull. There are many yachts out there with their number hanging from the bowsprit and cruisers with numbers hanging from pulpits.

Maybe Doug is flushed with success?

Or the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, now so famous it has its own Wikipedia page!!

well spotted Peter

Now if that is one of the Waveney Princess class (later the Aston Cairn class) one of the four definately still exists as I have mentioned elsewhere at times... And if its the shorter Waveney/Broadland Lion class we have one of those as well... lol. Sorry about the second picture, its all I have with me!

Yep, and if he'd re-thought that 20 times he would still have written it

Teddies have rights too you know

When they recently renumbered the A12 heading north from Lowestoft into the A47 they sent a man out covered in high vis in a transit with stickers and a step ladder. No renewal of signs, just a simple sticker with the new info stuck over the old. Cheap and effective. Maybe someone should give BA the number of the sticker suppliers?

We used to be able to cope with anything. Now elf and safety stops us.

Is it not about time we left these bridges open and offered the rail travellers a replacement boat service?

2262 texts in January and a fraction over the 2400 minutes allowance And I had to get one of the grand kids to text me how to find that information

If people are coming armed I'm wearing one of these.

And so London Rascal would be declined a hire should he suddenly decide to expand his Captain Blog series, many of which were solo hires? Well, over the years, we have all blamed Freddie Laker, the weather, the value of the pound, brexit, the BA and whoever else we have seen fit to along the way but I do sometimes wonder just how much the hire industry are to blame for their own downfall?

I have fitted a few of these now. For boat use they need some additional items to bring them up to spec (the exhaust silencer is not a sealed item, the diesel supply pipes are not to BSS and so on) which takes the shine off the initial saving. For a camper van they are more plug and play because the whole thing is 'outside' so the above is either not relevant or doesn't matter. This makes them very attractive. By the way, a 2kw unit will heat a coach built autosleeper or my pop top transit to 24 degrees in about 20 mins!

Managed to read Coot Club for the first time last season finally This year my target is to read The Big Six. Can you tell I don't get a lot of time to read for pleasure?

I do hope Mr wildfuzz has kept the keys safe for all our sakes