Smoggy

Unless you have a fear of water bourne chickens I would use ant foul instead... Assuming your fridge has a danfoss compressor you can get an add on controller with an extra temp sender that runs the fridge harder when the volts are up (charging or shore power) and lets it run a bit warmer when the volts are down and runs the compressor slower to reduce power usage, good for if you're sitting at a mooring for a couple of days after a run, I have one on my fridge and it works well. https://www.indelwebastomarine.com/int/technology/isotherm-smart-energy-control/

If you're tempted with the dripless seals I believe the asap orbitrade ones have a vent and feed port so you can feed some raw water from the pump and never have to burp it. Just make sure you don't mix metric and imperial measures as your shaft could be imperial. I also believe Guatemala shrinks on cold day....

But Griff you're a bloody Yorkshire man, you have balls the size of Guatemala, you can repack a stern gland in the water have a vax handy and pre cut the packing around the exposed shaft (ooer Mrs.) and it don't come in that fast, it saves the cost of a lift out.

See! Told you we gotta try harder, upsetting a Yorkshire man takes proper determination, or expecting him to get a round... Ow chuffing much????

We know you're kidding, you run and hide when something comes the other way....

Are there speed limits? When did they come in?

I'm sure the bylaws already cover it but without a set level.

But it's a BOAT safety certificate not a PEOPLE safety certificate, it was never about keeping people out of the water just about keeping them off a burning boat, the BSS don't care if the boat is sinking as long as it won't burn on the way down. You can have more people than berths, you have just ruled out lifejackets on a dayboat, it really isn't that simple.

BSS is not interested in people falling overboard, it's generally about boats not catching fire or exploding as that was the biggest cause of casualties back in the day, drownings are still fairly rare, you are more likely to suffer a crush injury while mooring.

I'm sure there's been times when I wouldn't have got onto a boat with me but luckily I was too drunk to know better so did anyway. Inland and river speed is a different thing entirely to high speed and sea while drunk.

Wait till his friend sues him for damages for life changing injuries.

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/suspended-sentence-for-boat-owner-after-injuring-friends-in-west-wight-cliff-crash/

In the same circumstances I'm sure they would, I believe the sentence was suspended.

We only have our own on board, we have a spare at home for when we used to take my mum out but only worried about it if we were going to sea and then would only wear them if going on deck, we rarely use them on rivers anyway except in the dinghy and that's not a certainty.

Maybe we need to put more effort into upsetting Griff!

We are doomed! Doomed I tell thee!

Probably border force having a clampdown on the Yorkshire border.

And of course the sheets of mat to put in between the crockery to stop it all rattling in tune with the grill pan when idling.... When we did the deal with snowbird the previous owner was going to clear the boat into a skip, we said leave it and we'll see what's not useful, glad we did as it would probably be a right PITA trying to find crockery that fitted the built in stowage spots, luckily he did take the ginger wig (although if he hadn't I would have worn it into a couple of pubs by now ).

I doubt you've upset anyone, you said the same as I did earlier in the thread (or was it a different one?) But making fitted things work is not the same as major changes, major changes are very much worth waiting a season for.

It's the idiots version of a pic, picaxe is an educational setup that uses a language similar to basic for small children and idiots like me.

Mine have 2 speeds options on the motor the rest is down to a home made controller, they need to be self parking motors to do that though. I also have a washer switch that does one side at a time and gives a single wipe when the switch is released, it's a mom-off-mom switch, great for salt spray that always seems to get one side or the other. The controller.

Mine are vetus and not that noisy, mind you mine are usually only on low intermittent, I suppose when it's worth using full on the rain likely drowns them out anyway.

What type of wiper motors are they?

You may need a couple of chunky diodes to seperate wiper motors depending on type if on one switch, a lot of the self parking ones can get out of synch and one will cross feed to the other and keep them going when you turn them off. I used alternator diodes in line to mine and they work fine but I have intermittent settings, it's not often it rains hard enough to need wipers permanently on at river speeds.