Smoggy

Be better with a brewery van following you.

And even if you do get something built to your own specs you'll still want to change something once you've used it for a while, that's how boating keeps us all poor.

I did once get shouted at about my speed on the great ouse, it was from an inspector on their launch with a handheld speed camera coming towards me, I shouted back equally inpolite as I was shouted at! The concept of both boats moving seemed lost on the idiot.

I hope you realise having a new hip makes your average age younger.

If the tide is taking you don't worry about the speed limit just watch the rpm and wash, if little wash you are doing no harm and it's safer to have better control than obey the limit, the rangers generally know it and won't bother you, I've been through reedham against the tide way below limit and been glared at by the quay warden and with the tide well over the limit and not an eyelid batted, speed over ground is a pointless limit in fairly strong running tidal areas. Just make sure you turn into the tide to moor and do it well ahead of bridges, you can always drop to idle (still in forward)and go backwards with good control if the tide is taking you, it's called stemming the tide, you can stop and go forward much quicker and easier too like that or just hold position in the flow with good throttle control.

Be glad you wasn't halfway through a eulogy when you realised it was the wrong person.....

Due to wind direction and speed my last 2 weeks of boating were spent inland on the southern broads pushing against the tide quite a lot, I topped up at the end and got 80 litres in, that included a 20 knot blast across breydon and back (which probably accounts for half the fuel), that's with 2x 3.6l turbo diesels so £400 for a week on a hire boat is way out. Could be worse though, back in 2019 we had a fantastic 2 week run and got through 760 litres in total Admittedly we did get down to dover and most east coast rivers in between bar the thames and ore.

If the main food is biscuits use them as treats as well from the measured amount so at the end of the day the dog has had no more, just less in the dinner. Been doing that for years now.

Tina still does that 3 years on, we're pretty sure she was in a pound and having to fight for the food given so can't hold that against her, but don't go too far on getting the weight up as rescues can pile it on very quickly and it's so much harder to get it back down. Don't be too polite when people randomly give him lots of treats without asking first, it's my pet hate, you end up with a fat dog that is a scrounger, "just the one please" is polite enough, after that "try that outside a school with haribo and see how you get on" often gets the message across......

You keep mentioning the top pipe on the calorifier, is it a vertical or horizontal calorifier? Usually the top pipe is not coolant but hot water to taps with bottom pipe being cold water in from tank, the coil itself are usually in between that link to the engine coolant. Sorry if this makes no sense and is no help but it's friday afternoon and I've been to the pub.... (purely for a practice you understand, I'll be back later for the proper job ) I wouldn't want rigid pipe and pushfit fittings on my coolant side, I do have them on my domestic hot water side.

Be aware John means the engine water pump not the raw water pump, easily to get confused if you're not mechanically minded, they both have impellors just different types (the raw water is the one you change regularly).

Shaft seal in the injection pump I would think, can wreck an engine it the sump fills up and it "runs away", is the injection pump direct into the engine on the 1.5? I'm sure it was on the 2.52. If a pump has been rebuilt in the last 5-10 years (possibly longer, I'm guessing) it's likely had viton or similar seals fitted but if an older pump that's not been touched another matter. The same seals will have problems with ethanol content of modern pump diesel too, in the racor copy filters I've fitted I changed all the seals for viton just in case the chinese were using crap rubber.

We had a dog like that when I was a mere sprog, a few times we'd get home to find someone who'd popped round and had to sit and wait till we returned to get out (we never locked the front door and most folk we knew just walked in), when my old man took him in his lorry his boss got in unannounced and got bitten, for that my old man got a pay rise to cover the guard dogs food, no one was nicking that lorry!

The guy I know had a 1.5 bmc when he got badly burnt, it was overheating at the time but shows they CAN be pressurised especially if the overheating is down to a head gasket or cracked head.

Try taking the cap off when up to temperature and you are likely to get a face full of scalding coolant, I know of a guy that did just that and had skin falling off his face. Cold there's usually air in the header anyway, in a perfect system air will always get back to the header but perfect systems are a big ask on a boat.

Does it have the same lubrication properties as diesel? If not there's going to be a few injector pump issues cropping up. I was always of the understanding a bosch pump will be fine on veg oil where a cav/delphi pump will weld itself solid fairly quickly on it so the same may go for GTL with no additives.

I have to try the ram for food sometime, last time I was there they had just got the proofs of the menu done and due to start the next day. The walk back to church fen mooring will be fun in the dark after a beer or 5.....

You posted that one about 9 posts ago I'm sure.

Sorry to hear about your pooch, you never forget them.

Those piccies show what colour your carpets will be in spring time.

They generally get hit much harder at reedham due to the tide running much faster and folk that have crossed from the north are running with the tide and often not yet experienced mooring in a proper tide unless they stopped at gt.yarmouth on the way.

The coolant often goes through the calorifier before the stat opens like a bypass circuit, I'm pretty certain the take offs on my volvos are like this.

I felt a bit ropey for a couple of days after my first 2 pfizers and found the moderna booster a bit of a headbanger, got another booster on the 18th, had flu jab saturday, never had any issues with flu jab.

Maybe it's the cage, not something I've ever considered using, we always let dogs have the run of downstairs at least and once we are happy with that upstairs is fair game as well, Tina rarely comes upstairs at night just stays on her bed or the sofa, Winston my last dog used to sleep on the floor at the foot of the bed most nights.

As I read it the reedham ranger was very helpful and it was the ranworth ranger that wasn't, wasn't there a comment about one of the ranworth rangers earlier this year being less than helpful? I've always found the reedham guys helpful although once they recognise a private boat they tend to let you get on with it unless it looks like it's going wrong, I take that as a compliment as it means it looks like you know what you are doing.