Smoggy

So if you put pedals on would it be fine, even if the pedals are hardly useable? Wouldn't be a scooter anymore.

I expect a marina gets through a lot less fuel than a roadside garage but still has the same insurance loading so not surprising they are a good deal more expensive, they also don't have competition 5 minutes down the river.

I found them more interesting than patronising and even re-learned a few things, but don't ask how fast I rode home afterwards... Don't get caught too keen on traffic lights though, that course made no sense and was a total waste of a morning, all psychobabble claptrap.

You didn't get the option of a speed awareness course then? Saves on the points, I've done a couple....

Let's just hope it works against any upcoming variants that show their heads.

My clubbing days never started, I have been dragged into a couple and hated every second of it, gimme a pub anyday! I did however have a great sunday afternoon meeting up with a couple of friends I'd not seen since last july outside a good pub and lashings of beer, bliss! Now roll on two weeks time when they open properly.

If that was on the stern on end I'd have rafted up to it and clambered across it.

As pm'd Griff, let the fridge go to proper usage a a fridge rather than bits of a fridge.

Got my invite to book 2nd jab, 9.30 on a Friday night. Roll may 12th.

Get over it Ian, you got caught, just accept it! Proper naughty boys are more sneaky and get away with it.

And of course just because you think you can get back on your boat from the water doesn't mean you can, it is far harder in reality than it looks even on a water level bathing platform. And you don't have to be that close to a boats stern to get in trouble, a reversing prop can suck you in, to start a 6 ton boat moving from a standstill needs 6 ton of water moving the other way.

Keep at it, must be doing you the world of good.

The trouble with a centre line is that at somewhere like reedham with a good tide running as soon as the boat starts to bob out the boat gets a 1.5:1 advantage over the person holding the line increasing as the angle gets bigger, admittedly if running into the tide and holding stern line only it's even worse. As long as you don't let the angle get going they're ok. I have my mooring lines long enough so they all run to the stern so I can step off with both but that is also a bad idea on a hireboat with inexperienced crew, I doubt their is a perfect solution with anything boaty.

All the bss regs can be found here. https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/media/268789/ecp-private-boats-ed3_rev2_apr2015_public_final.pdf

The very same indeed, I moored up at st.neots marina for a good few years as it's only a shortish walk from home for me, one of the owners just lives across the corner from me.

No we're still here, I mean they are still here.....

It was scared up there by the far more fearsome beasts that prowl the southern rivers.

Are you going for large inboard or twin outboard?

Assuming it's a new fridge with danfoss compressor, the energy saving add on cotroller is a good extra that changes it's behaviour depending on supplied volts running just below freezing when charging and using the colder food as an accumulator to run at a lower setting when the batteries are not being charged, costs about £150 extra but does appear to work. Makes for an expensive fridge mind. If you get no other takers Griff I'd be tempted in your offer as parts to make a custom chiller box, better than landfill but better if someone wants it as is.

You have to take the OVRC off the back, it'll get you a bad name.

Now that would be a bloody good night!

Yes, it makes a crunching sound when you run out of space....

You'd have a job to read my number and it has the BA issued numbers on in the right place, they are faded to nothing in just 5 years, I did get a ranger boat giving it a long looking at last weekend and was waiting them to moor for a closer look but they carried on. I have new vinyl numbers to go on but not till next visit.

It's pining for the fjord, trouble is it's on a skilso..... You must have got your map of scandinavia back to front when you bought your boat.

Duck tape will also hinder it drying out.