Smoggy

What fitting is it? Butane I assume, I have a half full 13 bottle of similar age but can't find a fitting for it as it's 20mm not the usual 21mm and I think the depth is different from any 20mm fittings around. If I could find the right fitting I could decant the gas into 4.5kg bottles.

If you have festoon fittings sheridan marine do what they call a butterfly bulb, loads of light but a much nicer yellowed light and very little power, I changed all my saloon lights to them but had to solder/glue them into my old fluorescent fittings.

I can believe it...

Will you shut up just for once! It's terrible down south, the crossing is lethal, the pubs are awful, and the beer/wine is six times the price! Don't do it it's just not worth the risk, once past yarmouth all the rivers are uphill in both directions so it costs twice as much in diesel, there's even vampire wombles roaming. It gets worse, people like me are there....(enjoying the peace and available moorings, alledgedly)

Have you tried using bait?

The internals looked like new when I stripped it, no signs of wear anywhere just the corrosion issue, the thermostat was caked in crud but a quick blast with ground walnut shells bought it up like new and after a soak in duck oil and a few heat cycles in the oven it appeared to work fine so got away with that, £98 for the gaskets and £25 for new mounting rubbers (industrial price not honda price) and £5 for the welders breakfast and job a guddun! A 6/8hp honda for >£220.

It's getting there! Should shove my little rib along nicely when I get it back together.

I can't believe those evil paddleboarder types are so attracted to the sounds of a screaming child, is there no satisfying their twisted fetishism? Good job no one fell in near wroxham Bridge as that could resulted in certain doom! Top marks to the paddleboarders that stepped in when needed, most would be there if aware of the issue but if you don't know you can't help.

Walton is about 3 hours after gy HW and it's about 60NM so I'd leave gy at 1/2 flood so you can get under haven( I think your airdraft is about the same as mine and I work on it not lifting) and get the best of the tide down and arrive at stone point around 2 hours before hw with plenty of depth and if you get it wrong it's still rising, follow the buoys and you'll be fine. At half tide you'll be flying past Aldeburgh ridge, there's less pot markers if you go outside whiting bank and watch for the 5 litre oil can markers around pye end and medusa channel near the Walton entrance as they're barely visible. Disclaimer: this is from memory and after 3 newcastle browns so do your own passage plan... And I've not been in to Titchmarsh for a few years.

On the rivers and in cars the chances are you won't have issues, cars have small tanks and fair quick turnover and river boats can have a big bug issue that never reaches the pickup, give the boat a proper shake up and it's a different matter, the average trip across breydon isn't a proper shake up, that said I've never worried about fame fuel but dose it well.

When I changed my tanks I cut the bottoms out of the old ones to have a look, I recon the caked sludge was 1/2" thick and would only move when properly shaken about, unless good access to inside tanks for a scrape polishing only goes so far, but it certainly helps. I spent a day with big filters and pumps sucking from tank drain and returning via tank vents while battering across breydon on and off throttles which took a fair bit out but never fully got rid of the crud, in the end it was a weeping seam that clinched the deal to replace them (I think the sludge was keeping the fuel in) which involved lifting both engines out to get access, since then I've been overdosing with marine 16 at every opportunity. Hope we're not scaring you off your trip coolcat. On my previous boat I'd had the tanks out to weld new top plates in and fit sumps and had hoovered the insides before fitting the new tops, topped up in ely and on the return trip had a blockage caused by a lump of crud stuck up the pickup, I had to sort it while swmbo took the helm on one engine in horrible sea conditions just out of wells, not fun and I was probably a hideous shade of green with my head down the engine bay sloping diesel everywhere.

Get that fuel treatment in well before heading off to give it time to work and carry plenty of spare filters, practice changing them and bleeding the system as it's no fun at sea. Check east coast pilot website for most recent chartlet of stone Point, once into the twizzle you'll be fine but Titchmarsh has a cill so look out for the depth gauge board.

I can do that at work myself but gonna coat the inside as protection anyway so not going to worry about it, it's not as if the cooling system runs under any real pressure on a small outboard.

Didn't use the piston skirt in the end, had a couple of otherwise scrap magneto housings that had an almost perfect shape section so chopped them up. Had a skim down today till the rest of the face just started to show signs of the cut then finished off with a sheet of emery on a surface table by hand. That'll do it I recon, can consider buying the gaskets now. Gonna give the water jacket another blast out then paint inside with a couple of coats of urethabond 104 as it sets rock hard and resists most things and will sort out any porous bits in the welds. Got a couple of small bits in the exhaust ports to weld and dress then the head will be sorted. Looks like I got myself a cheap outboard.

Not sure if they still answer the phones, they were getting a lot of abuse during one of the heatwaves and announced about not monitoring phones because of it. A situation generally caused by stupid rude idiots

Reedham bridge are usually on VHF CH12 as is Somerleyton and Yarmouth radio.

Now that IS worrying, if anyone is passing thorpe st.andrews can they stop and put my fire out please.

Now you're being silly, I'm trying to work out what DIDN'T cause it, especially as it didn't happen.

So now we have established there was no fire maybe it's time to start speculating about how the fire didn't start and what didn't cause it so we can all avoid not having fires in the future. I'm guessing it didn't have a cheap Chinese heater that wasn't poorly fitted that failed to burst into flames due to it not having a supply of fuel and lack of volts, both lacking down to it not existing. Who's next?

Do you think a forum trip to snowdon would help us lot or are we mostly a lost cause? 🤔

I'm a bit confudled about how a mould could be mistaken for a burnt out boat.

Didn't think there were any cake options at hardly mill, just a pontoon and a mill.

According to windguru (lowestoft) the wind on wednesday morning should be mostly southerly so it won't have a lot of breydon to whip across just hug the red post side of the channel, it might get a bit bumpier for the last bit as it turns more south as the tide will be running the opposite way by then but I wouldn't let it put me off. Just don't feed the monsters on the way over.

Many care homes, some you can get a hug too.....

Then try the southern rivers and pubs.