Smoggy

Nah they were battery powered.

Whats wrong with pampers?

Buy a spare charger off fleabay, cheap chinese junk is fine as you wont use the power adaptor, cut the lead and graft to an unused usb cable, black to black, red to black with pale white tracer. I did it as an experiment as the charger says 5.5v output, I guessed it would be dropped to something like 3.7v in the vac so gave it a go. The green light flashes while charging and stays on when full, my usb socket shows amps drawn and drops to 0 when charged so charging regulation must be inside vac, I stayed on board and checked temperaturee first time and all was fine.

I did the bow V berth area as that is where we sleep, I used 1/2" celotex where I could and the foiled bubblewrap stuff where it needed to be flexible, I did foil tape all the edges so the condensation didn't just collect behind it. We did get water running down the vinyl panels in the berth in winter but that has gone now, it will be there somewhere but not in my bedding. I'd like to do my cabin but not going to take down the old vinyl unless I'm replacing and that will have to wait due to lack of bearsedness. (there's a new word for you, feel free to use it but royalties are payable in beer!) The airmat stuff is good under mattresses but not cheap, it gives a bit of air flow under them. Windows are a lost cause. but a karcher window vac is great only downside is you can't use it upside down for steep angled screens or the water comes through the motor, I also made up a lead so it could charge via a usb socket instead of being reliant on mains for charging.

I've added insulation to each panel I've had off mine, not yet done them all as it's a lot of hassle if they are not coming out for another reason. Cuts down on condensation lots.

It's the same on cars, people use the horn to communicate things about the anchor (or at least I think he said anchor...).

Absolutely, don't even think of spraying it on! I use a 1:4 mix with water and brush on doing as much over land as possible.

I have heard of folk using thompsons water seal to good effect but not tried it myself (yet), for algae prevention patio magic works a treat and is much cheaper than wet'n'forget but has the same active ingredients, isn't it amazing how the cost drops when they don't put a picture of a boat on the tin..... I've used fabsil on the seams of a vinyl canopy and it never quite stopped leaking, not tried it on canvas.

No worries I wasn't taking personally in any way, and to be fair I would be guessing if I tried to name which was which.

I do know though, they are daft names for ropes.....

Not mine, double braid dockline for me, always run back to the cockpit and hung ready for use without having to go along the decks at all and you have more control if you can step off with both fore and aft lines, usually tethered behind elastic tiebacks and always tied off in the cockpit when at sea. I thought there were no such things as ropes on boats, just lines/sheets/halyards/cables/warps.

On the rivers lifting them everytime you leave a mooring is just 'playing at ships' the same as neatly coiling lines on the foredeck, they only work when they are down and walking along the sides of the boat underway just adds to the chance of a dunking, on the sea they need to be safely stashed, I tuck mine up on the decks behind the guard rail stantions as they can't go anywhere from there till kicked in but many frown upon that as well. Some just take it all too seriously, nearly as bad as the wearing of captains hats.....

I think I would pretty much agree with all of that.

If there's a spare seat I could sit and watch that with you, maybe give a running commentary (or just insert the bleeps), sounds like good entertainment.

If you're not careful they'll start using phrases like 'lying arthwartships' and things, there are some wierd words in boating but you get used to it in the end. When you have klingons on the starboard bow you may have problems, or may have just had a glitch with the pumpout....

With that airdraft you are better mooring on the southern rivers even if it means a bit of travelling to the boat.

May not have proper HIN but I'd have thought it would have a builders number at that age, my princess is 1982 and has a plate with yard no. at the helm.

Like checking the tide tables and weather forecast?

I doubt the authorities care as it isn't on the navigation but a private side cut, I would imagine the guys at the yard may shift it to at least the bank to clear the way, I know the marina as I moor there and have to say was relieved to see it round the corner from my mooring but do feel sorry for the owner for sure. I would imagine insurance won't be a problem as it's a requirement of the yard it's in (unless it was set adrift from the yard opposite to avoid spreading, I don't know their requirements).

1852 metres if I remember correctly, although a minute of latitude is a different distance depending on what latitude you are at due to the planet being an oblate spheroid. There is no bottom on the east coast, the water just gets much thicker.....

The dutch are very good at pumping sediment and creating new land, maybe a new tourist attraction for yarmouth could be formed out to sea using the spoil. Dubai is well known for this. Yarmouth could have this.... Quite fitting I think!

Is the river at PH staying up because hickling is emptying through it? And does that end drain through the land direct to sea by much? Just questions, I know nowt!

I think the pole referred to in the fens is at whittlsey mere, the land has not sunk it has eaten itself IIRC, when the land was drained and the peat dried out the air got in and set the microbes at work and the result is the fields get lower and lower, a lot of the roads and houses around there sit high above the fields on firmer ground because they were built on rhoddons which were old river beds where the deposited silt is far more solid that the surrounding peat. I would imaging a few of the straight line villages around the broads are on similar ground for the same reasons. The post in question is surprisingly high seeing as it was buried to ground level when it was put in, there is now a new one beside it and the old one is on a concrete base. These are sketchy fact so may be liable to the odd trumpism (or cock up) as it's quite a few years since I was there.

And memories of Terry Wogan come flooding back....

Not everyone has the luxury of a skeg for protection but settling gently into soft mud shouldn't do any real harm as long as theres no hard lumps under your mooring.