Smoggy

Stop shouting at my boat please, it's getting paranoid. I look over postwick viaduct to make sure it's still where I left it and the right way up.

If you moor the boat in the right direction each time you don't have to adjust the aerial.

I would certainly hope so!

For occasional use you can't beat it, none of the gummed up carb from stale fuel, start easily straight away and run properly which makes it safer than a spluttering chainsaw grabbing hold of things as it struggles to rev.

Insurance is always easy to blame for decisions made for other reasons, it's nicer to say than "we don't think you're up to it".

I recon I could make use of that if no one else needs it, when are you at st.ives next? I'm pretty sure the bowl on mine is already robbed from one of those and I know RM69 bits are getting sparce.

You wouldn't get cold that's for sure.

I remember the days of an old mk1 escort, the plastic nut on the gearstick gave up as the clutch cable snapped, had to drive from Bedford Town centre to st.neots with no clutch and a screwdriver in the hole trying to remember everything worked opposite like that, did well considering.

You'll get modded with statements like that, newspapers and facts in the same sentence indeed, whatever next.

Until it's water under them, then it'll be of interest, good idea with the handles. Can you stow beer under them?

What make manual bog? Interested if RM69.

Just lend the boats to Grendel and he'll phase out the diesel engine, or at least a con-rod.

No problem, solar! There's no clouds to worry about so output is completely predictable.

Missed the yellow post on breydon!

If buying a new calorifier make sure it's up to the pump pressure, I upgraded to a better pump and changed the pressure relief valve to match and sometime after the calorifier suffered a prolapse, the concave base became convex, that a few years back and I'm still waiting for it to leak.

Gits! He says jealously at work..... ....But on a boaty forum.

Why not get yourself a small genny, anything over a kw should do it and be much quieter and less invasive than running a boat engine, I did just that at southwold this year as were on a private pontoon with no power for 3 days, my old £50 genny did a grand job and topped the batteries via the charger at the same time although slightly overloaded, I don't suppose modern inverter type gennys would cope with the overload as well but mine is an old school job with no real electronics.

Spotted on ebay. Eber water heater

You could heat the water by solar but not practically by solar electric, solar thermal collectors are heavy and need a lot of plumbing and a controller though and a way of dumping excess heat when the water is up to temperature, doable but not really feasable. If you go for a twin coil tank you can maybe fit one of the diesel water heaters in the future but not cheap, they are like an eber but heat water instead of air.

Main winter project is to tidy the rats nest of wiring under the dash and re-design the dash panels as it has had bits changed and replaced over the years and looks a mess with blocks of wood covering holes so smaller instruments can be fitted, also volvo engine panels are identical so planning to fit all gauges separately and symmetrical centred on the steering position, 3mm aluminium panels cut to size and black leather effect vinyl wrap covering obtained, 2" depth sounder bought along with led engine warning lights, just got to make the circuitry to mimic the volvo engine alarms so the buzzer keeps quiet before the engines are started. The existing. The planned layout

I thought the helm should be looking that way anyway.

How about "duckwits" ? Or something similar sounding.

There is a simple fix for that, gloves.

If the bilges are linked an auto pump in the lowest spot should be fine for inland rivers but float switches are more reliable than the electronic ones, I've had a couple go wrong. When water is coming in big time the best bilge pump is still a frightened man with a frying pan.

Nice but the battery's flat...