Smoggy

I've done that route and found a submerged washing machine amongst other junk under boston town bridge while getting shoved in too early (grand sluice gave me the wrong times), gave the outdrives a good whack and lost reverse and steering on one side, got the steering ball welded and lashed a ratchet strap around the drive to keep it down when reversing and carried on to nottingham and back to gt.ouse. When I got a new reversing catch I had the boat pulled out to find both swivel forks had shattered and it was only the pins holding them all together, I was very glad I'd done away with the crappy grub screws and drilled/tapped the pins for better security as it kept it all in place, very glad it was flat on the way back over to denver as the wash can get pretty lively, that was in an early 70's RLM31. Did wells and back in the company of an old freeman 30, I think that was a 1966 one.

I'm intrigued, where from and where to?

Are you planning on using for sea?

Noooooooooo! What do you mean "future"? It won't take that long.

One of the vices at work has had the jaws machined flat and parallel, it is very useful for flat sheet and makes a good mini press too Mr. G.

A crappy connection somewhere with a bit of extra resistance would make a european gauge read higher, a USA gauge would read lower with the same issue, if you disconnect the sender the gauge will likely go to the very top.

I work in a light aircraft engine shop and often have customers on the phone telling me what plane they have, my usual anwer is " sorry I just deal with the spinny smelly bit, I don't do the flappy bits", just because I do the job on the engines (mostly the magnetos these days) doesn't mean I have any interest in the sodding planes.

With an IR thermometer don't point it at a shiny bit of engine or you'll get a duff reading, a nice matt black hose is the ideal spot to check, they are dirt cheap off fleabay.

Outdrive is indeed the right term.

But it comes with a full size bath.

Whip the thermostat out and suspend it in a cup of boiling water the see if it opens and closes ok, it should be closed untill hot.

Air lock in the coolant/calorifer hoses I suspect, I assume it was fine before and the engine got up to temp ok.

Probably not that bad out in the marked channels, there's a lot of shallow banks along there that bring the lumps up, it's usually bouncy till about half a mile out even on the way out to gorleston road. I once tried to follow the chart plotter close in to lowestoft and turned round when the depth sounder started giggling at me, backtracked to near the river mouth and followed the normal route, I've seen a few cruisers belting along well inshore but not brave enough to try again, deep is safe.

That I like! Always been a sucker for a trailie, I missed out on a guzzi v65 trailie going cheap once. Still got an xt600e in the garage keeping the tdm company.

I have a stainless tank and a mesh bag full of ceramic beads impregnated with something or other (forgot) that keeps the water good without all the tablets or sterilising, we drink water from the tank without any worries, when first used after leaving the boat for a while there's a bit of a hydrogen sulphide smell but that is from the plastic pipework, I have all the longer runs done in copper at it keeps the water good as well, the smell soon clears once the pipes are cleared. I'm not sure the supplier of the mesh thing are still going but it was a hovercraft skirt maker that also did tank liners and used the same system built in to their tanks. I have some sanosil ag at work that I may give the system a run through with as it's supposed to be fully safe after 24 hours even if left in the system, basically hydrogen peroxide with silver ions so once the peroxide degrades it is just water as it goes from h2o2 to h2o.

I'd like to see how it was launched, "it's on a slipway on a trailer but we'd rather lift it full height with the crane and just drop it sir". I seem to recall some of those type lifeboats going up for auction a few years back with forum thread about how good or bad a boat they'd make. (possibly not this forum, maybe ybw)

If you get a surveyor to measure up that model Griff I recon you could save a bundle on your toll, they'd never know the difference from a distance.

I remember a short time after the event seeing the name of a guy I was at school with in the local paper, he wasn't one of the unfortunate ones but had recieved a bravery award (not sure what or who from now), it seems he had ran along the side with an axe knocking windows through and helped quite a few get out when it was on it's side. He was a daft sod but great respect to him for that little stunt.

Is it the right way up?

I was always under the impression hired boats needed the same gas inspections as regular rented accommodation,I take it that is wrong then.

The high level vents don't have to be over the cooker, they can be anywhere and have to be fixed open unless sea going where they must have labels stating only to be closed at sea, lack of low level vents are only advisory for sea going as not always practical. That's for bss of course, I think hire craft need a proper landlords certificate.

Ih you are going to heat the boat with the cooker put some bricks in the oven so it keeps radiating when you switch it off. My eber can always roast the boat well.

I've always found the gas cooker very quiet for that sort of thing, I really don't get the all electric boat thing.

Too late going by the angle of that piccie.

Are you suggesting that american cars run on burger fat?