Smoggy

Get it pumped out then flush plenty of clean water through and it'll be fine I'm sure. A lot of these dreaded jobs are nowhere near as bad as you think it'll be, but have bin bags to hand so you're not lugging manky bits through the boat.

Ramsgate is a notoriously bouncy marina in anything with E or S in the forecast but usually ok in anything from the west, there is very little between open sea and the pontoons, due to an afternoon in the pub I can't remember if it was 2018 or 2019 when we got there at the start of their sea week and got the pick of the moorings so headed for the most sheltered spot we could find, 2 days later it was packed and everything was bouncing around merrily, we had a good spot but still lively. I like Ramsgate, a lot of good pubs and a lot of good bands to be found in them at the weekend. Back on to power lines, we have solar on the roof and there is a very good reason why it cuts off if there is a power cut, I think it is called anti-islanding, so when the lines need fixing we are not making it live from the wrong side.

Easy solution, hire a bouncy castle for the weekend, shove it in through a door and inflate it, once off the bottom pull a big tarp under the boat up to roof level and pump the water out. Return bouncy castle. I guess the thinking is that unless the engine is going to be sorted straight away it will be better off under water away from air and it will corrode less, but leaving it under for longer makes for a much bigger repair job, unless of course it's being written off.

The diverter will not shut anything of, if one side is shut the other way is open. I would take it off and just have one pipe to cap, you can always leave the diverter in a bag beside the pipe or taped to it in case of future need.

And you would trust to an unsecurely capped below water fitting that has been ignored/unused for years? I wouldn't!

Too short and wussy for a fexible pipe going to a hull fitting below water line. The second looks like it's for push fit plumbing, the first looks like a cosmetic tube end.

On a diesel after the very first initial break in (likely done in the factory) they need some load, to little early on is likely to glaze the bores leading to loss of compression and oil burning. Don't scream it but don't ***** foot it either, make it do what it's designed to do.

That sounds a bit worrying, surely it must have some kind of MCA coding for carrying fare paying passengers, I'd have thought it would be up to a lot more than that.

What you suggest makes sense if you never plan on using the direct discharge option, If you are going to leave the spare pipe attached to the hull valve I'd be tempted to pump any water out and put a drop of neat anti-freeze down it before capping in case of future bad cold snaps when you've forgotten it's there as chances are a drop of water will slowly get past the valve eventually filling the pipe to waterline. I'd take the diverter off and make up a pipe blank to put in there, maybe a bit of 40mm plastic bar turned down to 38mm leaving a couple of small ridges convenient hose clip distances apart and push inside the hose and clip.

Sanitation hose, asap has it, I would guess brian ward would too. Probably 38mm.

Well I had a very quick cycle home and not much peddaling required, luckily also managed to stop.... Anyone fancy coming hang gliding this afternoon? https://hha.co.uk/live-data/wind-speed/

The food van turned up at work this morning and we had to take turns holding on to the lift flap, it wasn't easy, there's more wind blowing than the tail end of BA's lads week! Gonna be a fun cycle home... Normally 1.5 minutes, today it'll either be 10 minutes or 4.7 seconds depending on wind direction at 12.00.

Snuggtopz at brammerton but don't expect anything quickly as there's usually a waiting list for good canopy makers, that said for repairs he's done me a couple of same day jobs last summer as he tends to keep weekends for repair work and do the big stuff during the week.

Possible 30mb pressure drop between today and tomorrow so a sea surface rise of up to 300mm over normal but with wind direction maybe holding it out so possibly not much different from normal. Wouldn't want to be on the west coast though. But I'm no hydrologist or meteorologist so probably safer to read your tea leaves.

I can guarantee that no steel narrowboat ever will sink through osmosis either...

The best fix for osmosis is negotiate a price drop then ignore it, no one has sunk from it, there's a lot of scare stories about it, if it's taken 40 years to get a rash of blisters it will do 40 more.

Good plan indeed, today is meant to be a bit blowy but mostly good, tomorrow is another matter, I don't think eunice is even a hint of a storm yet but the models have got so much better now they have a pretty good idea what it's going to do overnight, they are talking about explosive cyclogenesis which I seem to recall being what caught Michael Fish out albeit unheard of back then (he was right though, there was no hurricane). We've had it fairly easy in st.neots with dudley but I did find a tree down on the morning dog walk this morning, I may have to visit it with the chainsaw on saturday as I doubt clearing a council playing field is a priority, good job I had 2 new chains turn up this week, I feel a log store top up coming on.

Please remember there is no public towpath, all the banks are owned by someone so be careful with that barbie. And wild moorings on the lower reaches is a no no due to the tides. Water runs pretty fast on the lower reaches too, always try to moor into the tide, much bigger tidal range on the southern rivers. And enjoy!

A bit of springing also takes some of the impact out when another boat gets it wrong so never a bad thing.

Copraphagia is the correct term I believe, I'd understood it as something a bitch will often do after a litter as a clean up thing, winston was no bitch though. It was his own he'd eat most of the time so I doubt he got any more minerals than he'd just had, I think he started from seeing us clear up after him, he was a very obliging dog just not always in the right way.

You have to herd them or they herd you? We used to have a right gobby moggy that would stand and shout at us, I was convinced it would get us an asbo.

Is wee willy winkie showing gusts or just background windspeed? Would explain the difference as windguru shows both.

Whatever you do DON'T give them a treat to shut them up or distract them, they just learn that barking gets a reward.

Triggers broom all over again...