Smoggy

You mean Bells dyke then, I'm sure it's now owned by Bell boats.

Should have just moved it to the southern rivers, no such problem then. We rarely venture to the northern rivers.

The finned device is a blocking diode that charges both battery banks with no back flow to kill the engine battery, if the alternator has no external controller you won't be getting fully charged as diodes have about 0.7v drop across them. Do you have a working charge light at the helm? Normally the alternator is excited by the 12v through the charge light bulb to the field coil and it goes out once charging as it's a route to ground till it starts charging then there's 12v to both sides hence the light goes out, no voltage differential. If someone has replaced ignition lights with led lamps you need a resistor across charge light to excite alternator, often a rev will kick it in due to residual magnetism. Read it 3 times and ask again as I've been drinking....

A good harness that can be grabbed with a boathook is often plenty and more comfortable for the dog, most dogs will swim fine instinctively it's the getting them out that is the fun bit. Dog lifejackets can be very hot over fur.

Mine is not winterised just the big engine bay vents blocked with pipe lagging and the deck shower drained down, I will be up next weekend and will leave it with a splash of non toxic anti-freeze through the raw water system and the taps left open and de-pressurised and a splash of anti-freeze down the bog but that is as far as I'll go, it's sat in a river that rarely gets below freezing and daytime temps are still showing as plus figures so it'll be fine, I did minimal during the beast from the east and it was fine then too. A lot of folk panic too much about the slightest whiff of a frost, a boat out of the water is at far more risk of frost damage. I like it to be quickly useable during winter for weekends when the fancy takes me, usually just a quick prime up of the weed filters and turn the key and job done, taps splutter a bit as the air comes out but that's it.

What did it say? "WARNING! Don't eat yellow snow"

What breed of dog is it?

So back on with the questions for "persons of un-disclosed type of live on a boatyness".

I've never thought of "liveaboard" being in anyway disparaging and neither have narrowboat dwelling friends of mine, however they wasn't so keen on the term "coffin dwellers" as they are so often known on grp canal cruisers, well it's the shape of the boat innit . I've never had an issue with being termed as "tupperware" or "stinkie" in my grp mobo and usually use the terms myself, people are so thin skinned these days, whatever happened to the british thing of taking the pee out of ourselves?

220-240V same as anywhere else.

I advise everyone to check for stray currents every day! Just raison awareness.....

The A11 works seem to be progressing far quicker than the A14 works that's for sure, never seemed to see anything happening on the A14 but the A11 bits always look busy, I reckon there may be proper penalty clauses in place that they somehow dodged for the A14 job, I wonder if covid voided the penalty clause for the A14.

No power boost as far as I'm aware, just doesn't go manky like regular fuel.

Run the last tank with aspen and it'll start and run fine 2 years later with no problems, do the bulk of the job of regular fuel mix if worried about cost and finish up on aspen again before leaving the chainsaw in the shed for another 2 years.

I'm intriged to know the cost of the battery bank.... I have the solar panels but only 2.5kw due to roof space.

They give the bishop a day off.....

You can tell the nights are drawing in.

Don't go by Google for times and availability, my local had calls trying to book both rooms and tables when they've never done rooms or food, but Google says.....

How do they work in case of a power cut? Unless fully off grid they are supposed to cut out in case of power cuts so you are not the one electrocuting the repair crew down the road, I believe it's called anti-islanding.

Thanks for the bog (and the brew) Mikeyboy, and always good to put a face to a name. I'm one for sticking to the manual option, far less to go wrong and still works with a flat battery, I've never needed an electric bog at home so I'm not about to do it on the boat, luckily swmbo is of the same view as me.

Why not buy yourself an inflatable dinghy, dearer than hiring but you can use it for years and have a play on your local waters too any time you like.

I have the perfect device for cleaning meat trays, see avatar, works every time.

Disposable is the worst concept ever, it's why the world is so messed-up, apparently you can even get Disposable toilet paper now!

Should all be rated for 16A at least, look in the boats breaker box(likely a consumer unit) to see what individual circuits are protected to by what is on the MCB's, it you overload someting will trip out first (in theory). For individual appliances W=AxV to give amps, most are rated in watts.

I can't see grandma's teeth but grandma's other bits is a worrying sight, I'm pretty sure my grandma didn't have one of those...