StillCruising

I remember my grandparents had two very similar looking back rests in the 50's. When my grandparents moved house we inherited them. My mother later told me that she that they had been salvaged from a damaged local first aid post during the war (grandfather was an ARP). The ones that they had seemed wider and the shaped wooden cross piece fitted the bed frame to stop it sliding through or moving sideways. That said I was young at the time so the memory is a bit vague.

I very nearly became a victim of Co poisoning from the Ascot in the bathroom of my first house. I was saved by the timely visit by a friend. It is something that I will never forget.

Those coasters were mighty scary the first time I met one. I remember being amazed at how the water flowed out of the dykes when they they came along. Someone once told me that they brushed the bottom when they were full up.

9lts an hour, is that really true ? My old 1800cc BMC only used 2lrs an hour or maybe slightly more if punching the tide through Yarmouth.

For me winterising is not just filling the fuel tank, pump out, emptying the water tank etc but to bring home all the duvets, sheets, pillows etc so getting a boatyard to winterise doesn't work, it has to be a visit and because of the travel time has to be an overnight stay. I'm retired so I was able to go on Tuesday and come back Wednesday, this would not have been possible if I was still working and I sympathise with folk that have been caught out.

My boat is at Broadsedge and I suspected that this lock out would happen so allough highly inconvenient due to a house move I winterised on Tuesday and yesterday now I'm dammed glad I did. For me living so far away it would be too much to do the winterising without an overnight on board even if David hadn't locked the gates.

We use a fleece blankets instead of a bottom sheets on the beds and winter weight duvets. Hot water bottles are a must in my opinion.

There seems to be some confusion as to what the RH Load icon is showing. The load is just an output from the control panel which you can use under conditions that you can set. It is sometimes used to power a light on a timer for instants. Personally I don't use this facility.

The solar panel is generating 14.8 volts at 0.6 amps, the MPPT controller is converting it to 13.5 volts at 0.6amps. I have a 100watt panel and have seen up to 20 volts being generated but the controller manages it and converts to the voltage and amperage required.

Re the last restriction, I thought that the majority of the Broads are classified as tidal. I agree with Vaughan about the 24 hour watch but it doesn't actually say that.

Good luck with the drying out, dry heat and plenty of ventilation is the way to go. Fortunately its never happened to me but did happen to a friend a few years ago when his seacock froze and cracked partly sinking the boat. He was fortunate in that he had shore power available and we ran two large dehumidifiers for a long time to dry it out.

I have a large raw water filter mounted on the bulkhead. With the engine off I close the seacock and undo the lid of the filter. Start the engine and pour the antifreeze into the filter where the pump will push it around the engine until it appears at the exhaust then turn of the engine and put the lid back on the filter. I always pump all the water out of the fresh water system, leave all the taps open and take the pipes off the pump.

Unfortunaty I don't have the original box, as I got got more track etc I transfered everything into a bigger cardboard box.

I still have my Hornby O gauge clockwork goods set, I haven't progresses far have I 😂

I'm always willing to help others provided I don't put myself in danger and have done so for many years. It's remarkable the different reactions you receive when offering help ranging from people being unbelievably grateful to others that tell you to bugger off (yes its happened more than once).

Radio Luxembourg otherwise known as Fabulous 208 was originally on the long wave, it changed to the medium wave in the very early fifties.

I can swim but don't like to, when I'm on deck for whatever reason I always were a life jacket. It just makes sence.

We had to do that a couple of years ago. The faithful BMC 1800 was roaring away and we were making 2mph past the yacht station. Karen told me that the ranger was shouting at us but our exhaust was pretty much drowing him out. Thinking that there may have been something wrong I dropped the throttle just long enough to hear him telling us to slow down. By this time we had lost all headway and were in danger of going backwards, even at full revs it took what seemed ages to get going again.

I have used Fuel Set for years. It did well in the Practical Boat Owner tests in fact it was their Best Buy.

Thanks Q for proving that my memory is failing. The redicoulas price that petrol had got to was 5 shillings a gallon, but draft bear was only around 2 bob (10 p) a pint and a lot of that got drunk back in the day !.

Wow what a trip down memory lane. I started work in 64 as a trainee electronics engineer on 3 pounds 15 shillings (£3.75) week. When I started driving I remember a public outcry because petrol had just gone up to half a crown a gallon (4 gallons for £1). I went to college with people doing an apprenticeship with a well known company and their rate was 2 pounds 10shillings (£2.50) per week.

Back in the 70's I had a Bentley S2 which I used in a part time wedding car business.one day due to a very early morning return from a distant job I decided to take it to my day job and parking in my normal parking spot which happened to be in front of the MD's office window. I heard on the factory grapevine that the MD had be trying to find out who the car belonged to and during the morning I was called to his office where I was politely asked not to bring it to work again ……… unless I was prepared to take him his clients for their pub lunches ! He had a Ford 1600E Cortina firms car.

Ditto Vaughan's Comment

I have just been scanning some old photos. This was my MG in the 70's, for those who know me, yes I had a lot more hair then. As a group of friends were really big on Rovers (and pubs), mine is the '90' on the RH.

I haven't had any problems with the site.