Smoggy

+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.

Looking good Mikeyboy, puts my rats nest to shame.

Can you get signal umbrellas?

My Mum has a very good alarm pendant that she wears around her neck everywhere during the day, it has built in roaming sim and gps and will connect direct to the monitoring office and they communicate through the pendant, if they can't raise me they call emergency services, they have the code for her keysafe so police/amulance could get into the house if locked. If she falls it detects it as well as using the button and triggers too and as it doesn't rely on a base station it works anywhere in the country, once when desperate for the loo and trying to unlock the door it triggered a fall alarm as it was flying about round her neck and once when she forgot to take it off at night it triggered as well which was good to know it worked. This is the one. https://personalalarms.org/products/SureSafego?gclid=Cj0KCQiA-oqdBhDfARIsAO0TrGGv10I6PjGG-q3lAHDTc24hLtBkDVidaEnkhJZujT3ZiHr9f-HnJPwaAihVEALw_wcB

Sounds like you should be fine.

But use the non-toxic anti-freeze not the regular car stuff, it's lethal in the river.

My weed filters are both above water line although it's a fairly short run from seacocks and pumps, with the filter high you have to prime with the valve closed when empty but during normal use no different, chuck in some floating plastic balls and you can see the water level in the filter through the lid at a glance. Luckily I have room to stand in front of my engines and pour anti-freeze mix in while they run and can reach the key from there so can shut off once the filter bowl empties, could shut them off at the injector pump if needed. I hope you havn't split anything with your freeze up, the method you used was never going to do the job.

I would have thought a fuse of any kind on the starter lead will be pushing your luck on a cold morning, it's not a normal thing to do, that initial load must be a good few hundred amps.

It's only the screw on battery leads that are frowned upon, soldering is fine, if the soldering is hot enough to melt you want to be off the boat already.

Very nice, you'll soon have people queuing up as you arrive, for a hairdresser.....

There's plenty of non-covid bugs around at the moment, I've been absolutely floored for about a week with what started out as a cold but been negative all the way through, I'm not one for man-flu but starting to think this one may have been the real deal, the give away was sitting beside a banana knowing I needed to eat but just not having the energy.

That's got years left in it! Call yerself a yorkshireman, do you not have old coke cans and wire up there in the grim norf.

Yes autoterm are now latvian made, I wonder where the owners are based though???? They have a good name but I'd want to be sure where my cash was ending up now before thinking about one, not that I'm that keen on sending my cash to china either but I will take a good deal over a vastly inflated price based on a price fixing cartel.

Pozzick looks to have taken to his new home fine, especially if he let you dress him up. My pooch would have been out of that in a flash.

I wouldn't go with no.5, if a kid has gone through the ice an adult has no chance and will just be another casulty in the way. It will never be an easy one to call.

Hence the phrase "If chucked in by a numpty with the bits supplied panic."! These heaters have been around for years now and there just isn't the trail of fires and deaths that everyone seems convinced they must cause. I still have a working eber D4 and not about to change it while it's working, I fitted it in it's current position (original was so impracticle and had poor airflow) and it's passed 2 BSS tests in that time, both times the examiner had a good look at it so I'm not trying to preach to justify myself in anyway, merely pointing out that a well fitted chinese heater has no history to scare folk off continuing to use it, a poorly fitted eber will kill you just as easily as a poorly fitted chinaspacher. The kits shouldn't be advertised as "for boats" as the accessories just are not up to it but anyone taking the time to read through the pages of info online about them can fit one perfectly well and safely if they use the right parts, good engineers don't only work for boatyards.

If installed properly and as a replacement using original eber/webasto pipework and exhaust don't panic, it's a paperwork thing that's missing, there is no trail of fires as evidence. If chucked in by a numpty with the bits supplied panic. But remember some people do run around with scissors and other pointy things, darwinism is ready to catch anyone out.

If the rather nice twin tailpipes are the same bore as the rest of the system all it will do is cover the back of Trevor in exhaust soot, seen so many boy racer cars like it, the gas is happily exiting at a good speed and suddenly the pipework gets bigger, hey presto gas the slows down, same reason the silt builds on the inside of bends while the outside gets scoured. That twin tailpipe could be a bad idea.

More worthwhile for those of us that can take 500-600 litres but I doubt there's so many on the northern rivers, but that also makes the jerry cans more worthwhile with the price difference. Don't mention a certain riverside yard in brundall for prices.....

52.95p per litre is the duty rate on road fuel, it's not a percentage like vat, that is charged on top and I think it's still 5% on red. Edit: change that to 20%, 5% is for heating oil.

As good as church fen moorings then, nice!

Could you get into brudall from there or was it just surrounded by swamp?

Is that train powered by a volvo engine? Oh sorry that's steam not smoke.... Looks like a good trip out.

I've had to fill out a slip before and it took very little time and the details were very basic, can't think where though as it was quite a while ago (possibly on the witham). I got the odd one.... The red box contains a 12v tranfer pump which saves a lot of back pain and does away with diesel splashes in the river.