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  1. Whine, whine, bloody whine. It's one day and not even a full day at that. Money was raised for a very good cause. I pay my tolls as well but enjoyed just sitting on the boat watching them swim past us, in fact I have the utmost of admiration for them. I never saw any boats being held up at Beccles and from where we were sitting it looked a very well organised event. We look forward to watching it again next year hopefully. Some people are just unreal.
  2. Just seeing a post on facebook about fitting a new engine in a boat and it got me thinking about this again. Is there any particular reason boat engines don't run a conventional cooling system ? I assume it's to do with overheating in a confined space and maybe a cooler exhaust side of things ?, but we run both big and small engines in enclosed spaces at work and have never yet had an issue with overheating.
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    Rats

    Not on a boat. but have had them chomp through part of the wiring loom on a teleporter forklift, and through the cables in a timber framed house. Neosorexa gold generally sorts the little buggers out.
  4. I bought one of these last year to use on the boat 1byone ariel very impressed with it considering we leave it in the cabin while watching tv, I just bought another to use at home on the spare room tv to save messing about with a proper ariel.
  5. So you missed the part where he said there is no culture in the area :( A boring programme, but TBH I find John Sergeant a bit of a boring presenter.
  6. As a suggested above, try using raw onions, they work wonders on paint fumes, I see no reason why it won't work on diesel, has to be worth a try. You do need quite a few though.
  7. I had a propex in a camper I built and doubt I would fit another, it made an annoying gurgling noise when the burner was on, it was sent back to Propex to be checked and it was how it should be apparently. Although the quality of service from Propex was very good.
  8. The genuine Plannar heaters get quite good reviews but compare the wattage used on the 4kw which is way over webby's and eber's and it's air output on both the 2kw and 4kw units is way under both webby's and eber's on full power. That said they are cheaper so a bit of a trade off, also the 4kw uses pretty large bore ducting 100mm iirc.
  9. There is a facebbook group for the chinese heaters, they have a lot of error codes come up and heater plug failure is really common, also consider that they are not CE market, if anything went wrong the insurance company may be a bit funny about it.
  10. I have looked at the Planar heaters from a UK dealer, my concern with them was the fans shift roughly 20% less air volume than ebers or webastos, also the 4kw version runs 100mm ducting which means enlarging all the holes the duct runs through. Quite a saving though at half the price. I think I may get a Chinese 5kw one for the workshop, at the price if it lasts a year or 2 then I would be happy with that. There is a facebook group for the Chinese heaters
  11. Being a Viking once you get that done will she be able to get into the cabin OK, we had a look at quite a few vikings when we were buying our boat and most had very steep access to the cabin.
  12. We did consider that as it would have made life easier especially as we could have brought her home for winter work, but then we decided to go bigger and towing 26 foot by 10 foot had too many problems, mainly width and weight. If buying smaller it's definitely worth thinking about.
  13. Getting the mooring first is going to cost you and if you are like us finding what we wanted took ages and was still a compromise. Originally we wanted to moor on the north broads but decided to find the boat and moor her on the south broads which was far easier to find a mooring, we can move her north at a later date if we want to.
  14. We paid nearly half what everyone else was asking for the same model of boat we bought, but she needs loads doing to her, the others needed bits doing but not as much as ours needs, if we were having the work done by someone it would have probably been cheaper to have bought one of the dearer boats requiring less work, it's only because I can do it myself that it has worked out a good deal. That said, a few months after we bought ours one of the other sellers called me to say he was dropping the price a fair bit and were we still interested.
  15. Makita seem to be very popular kit to steal, it's very annoying having your tools stolen and grates in your head every time you think about it, unfortunately that is probably the last you will ever see of it. Sadly there are also people out there who are happy to buy tools even though they know they are stolen, which makes them no better that the thieving scum that took them in the first place.
  16. There is this site https://arbsafe.co.uk/ Arborists can register the serial numbers of their kit on there, you can then check stolen serial numbers if buying kit. When my 360* digger and Ifor williams trailer was stolen from the farm the police weren't even remotely interested in looking into it, even though we knew it was still travelling on the road on the back of a lorry when we reported it.
  17. We spent ages going all over the place looking at various boats, as we looked our brief changed. We were originally dead keen on a Viking 20, however on the off chance we came across a Shadow 26 and once we has been on it we realised that spending a week on a Viking along with the dog is the weather should be rough would probably start to become a challenge after several days. Whilst looking we met some very nice people, but we also met more than our fair share of lunatics who weren't really sure they wanted to sell, or agreed a price then changed their minds (happened twice). TBH my next purchase would probably be from a broker, purely because of some of the hassle we had with private sellers Our brief was small, because of my diet having room for my girlfriend to move about and cook was pretty important because we do not eat out at all so a full oven was a must have, a shower room that you could at least move in, hot/cold water, a decent heater and the dining area needed to be somewhere you could just stretch out in comfort if the weather was bad without messing up the sleeping area, preferably Diesel, shaft drive, ideally able to get under Potter bridge, but we did forego that one in the end, we had to make compromises or it felt like we were never going to end up on the Broads. We ended up buying a boat that needed quite a large amount of work doing to her, but we were aware of this and paid accordingly, luckily most of the work I can and have been doing myself, I quite like messing about anyway, for me part of the fun is just getting away from home and business, but we considered that virtually all the boats we looked at required a fair few pounds spent on them anyway to bring them up to standard due to their age, so if we spent it on this one at least we knew what we had, one thing we did notice though was buying away from the Broads saved us a fair amount, even after we paid to have her hauled over. Someone once warned me " whatever you buy you will end up spending on to get it to how you want anyway".
  18. Our Sara was a rescue dog, I always said I would never have another dog after we lost our Springer "Willow" to liver failure at just under 3 years old, she was a stunning dog and I cried like a baby when we decided she had been through enough and it was time to let her go. Sara was offered to me before she was going to be handed in to the rescue centre, due to the family she was with splitting up, she has been a fantastic dog, she purrs when you sit with her and make a fuss, although she is currently having issues with a Histiocytoma on her nose, she is terribly lazy but loves being on the boat.
  19. Needs a big flashing sign on the forum front page to remind people like me I just clean forgot about it.
  20. This will be our first full year of owning a boat on the Broads, costs certainly do add up, although we bought our boat knowing it needed a lot of work doing to it and we paid accordingly, I am quite lucky that I am able to do most of the work myself, but the one thing we have found that has really added to the costs is actually getting to her and back, because of things back home we have often had to go back in the evening and return the next morning and it has certainly worked out quite expensive. Wouldn't change it for the world though, although it would be nice to actually get her traveling up the river sometime soon :)
  21. 12V compressor fridge would be the way to go imo. Fitted one in a motorhome several years ago and wouldn't fit anything else now. Need to fit a new one in my boat as soon as I get it ordered, Have always liked the Vitrifrigo fridges but they are dearer than others out there but very energy efficient. The Webasto cruise range look quite decent on paper.
  22. I know a person who runs a sawmill near Edinburgh who may be able to help, he can arrange transport. If you are interested message me and I'll sort his number out.
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