Smoggy

If you have a stereo with aux in socket you could get a lead and use that for a sound boost too.

What a ghastly thought!!! They wouldn't have much choice on that one and the rspb and such would love it.

You shouldn't need a soundbar on a boat, modern tv's tend to have crap speakers (design flaw or what!) but how far away are you going to be on a boat?? If you get a good signal on another tv the cello should be no different, I have a feeling (no actual experience) the ballade is a powered antenna so would need a 12v supply if that is the case, if what you have works for your use stick with it. My waeco fridge has an external box inline that automatically uses 240v when available and 12v when not if you get fed up with switching over every time.

It will be interesting to see what they can actually do if you just say no to the mooring fees at ranworth and reedham, does the bylaws give them the power to issue fines for non payment? I can't imagine it would be anything a magistrates court would be interested in as there's no actual law broken so small claims court would be the only option for them, a lot of hassle to get their tenner.

They'll likely push the quay heading in as far as they can and chop them all down to the same height afterwards so may not end up much different. Pozzick looks so unhappy with his new existance....... NOT! And Seren doesn't look over stressed either.

My moorings went up by about £50 this year, not bad as it's the first increase I think since 2012. I don't have a huge issue with the 13% but obviously I'd rather not have to pay it but the mooring fees are another matter, I don't think they'll happen and agree with the "make it look like a win for boaters" theory.

It happened on one of the thames bridges not long ago so very possible.

Aluminium anodes seems to be the choice for brackish water these days.

Well done MM, I was unaware you had a version of sanity, you certainly kept that well hidden. I bet it was stored alongside all the other stuff you've put somewhere for safe keeping never to be seen again. Have another libation just in case.

They tried to introduce a charge at reedham before and got told to Go Away by the parish council I seem to recall, I don't believe they have the authority to do so.

No matter how long I'm out or how much access I have to a charger I've never had a tenner run out of power at an awkward moment on me yet.... I've started switching back to cash for a lot of stuff now, I never did like contactless but it was handy during the worst of covid. And walking into the side door of an engineering place waving a card just doesn't get jobs done nearly as quick or cheaply, very handy when I needed to get an outdrive steering link welded in Boston so I could get the boat back across the wash to home waters....

The very same bridge with my old plague ship (the RLM31) moored in front of it back in 2009, the flood level marks are up near the open windows on the pub (kings arms not slug & lettuce) so quite a height, that was a cracking trip out as we started in St.Neots and went via wells and hull and came back via torksey and lincoln, we made it as far as boroughbridge, the goal was rippon but the water levels were rising and the final section had a least one low bridge so we turned around and headed back downstream, 2 weeks in total for the trip.

The flood level marks in the kings arms at kings staithe are interesting while you are in york, assuming the pub is still open.

At least it's not going around the wier yet, it has been known to.

Rydlyme is the descaler most of the sea goers use for cleaning raw water cooling systems, should be a bit kinder to the metals than some options. Of course if you were to fit a bigger pump you could always use a restricted tee fitting and have some exit via a separate skin fitting instead of fitting a lower capacity impellor, would also act as an anti-siphon loop for the exhaust (not that you need it on the broads).

I always shut the seacocks when leaving the boat even in summer, it's good practice, as for thanking richos for the wire reinforced hose, if it's between seacock and raw water pump it's vital otherwise they would collapse as it's a suction pipe. Glad all is good.

Poor old Fishy still gets grief over that but when he said "there is no hurricane" he was absolutely right, hurricane force winds maybe but not a hurricane, must have been 15 years later they finally worked out what happened and gave the phemonenon a name.

Breydon water is the yare, the bure turns later. Best time depends on air draught for the bridges on some boats, nearer lw is better for me, lower boats aim for lw +1-1.5 for low flows.

When I approach my mooring I don't go by tide tables or aweigh app for tide direction, I go by the froth from the sewage outfall, I call it the turd of tide. Similar to FF's approach.

There's a deep low pressure to the north of Scotland with a southerly wind pushing it back, east coat tides come down the North Sea and ebb back up.

Did you manage to get rid of the vacuum bog?

I'll take the fridge if no one else wants it, I'm thinking of under a bench at work so if someone wants it for a boat give them priority.

There's nothing worse than seeing your pink unicorn shivering with cold, it deserved a blanket.

+1 on that theory.

One of my raw water pumps is a sod for NOT self priming (the other one is always fine) so do be aware of water flow, if there's air in the system they are not guaranteed to self prime, my weed filters are above water line and level with raw water pumps so I leave seacocks closed and fill the strainer bowl and give the engine a quick spin first to check the level drops before topping again and replacing the lid, then open the seacock and fire it up. Mine are VP not BMC of course, I've never got to the bottom of the one that does not always prime, I've swapped pumps from side to side and fully rebuilt the pump including machining the rear face and fitting a jabsco wear plate but it's still the same one that plays up.