Smoggy

If you have any vent fittings on the other side of the boat you could swap one over so the holding tank has a vent each side, this would always give a slight flow through of air in even low winds. Not worth having more holes though if no fittings already there.

What is this food waste I keep hearing of? Very little gets thrown out of our house unless it crawls out on it's own.

My tank basically prolapsed when I upgraded my pump, it flipped the concave base outwards, I keep expecting it to appears on the list of expense and despair but it's not leaked yet, I'll replace when it does, about 4 years so far.

Soon to be updated to "barely seen under river".

We have just had a new washing machine delivered, went for an Ebac on the grounds of mostly UK made components and UK built and repairable, the old one has shot bearings and a sealed drum my plan is to have a damn good go at splitting the drum and leaving it bolted and selling with new bearings if I can, just didn't want to be without for the time it takes to do the job.

Surely just above pump cut off pressure but below prv pressure otherwise it would leak out the prv before filling the expansion tank.

I've had it a couple of times, I can normally tell by the dripping from the overflow outside when the tank is heating up, mine has expansion tank on it's side which stresses the bladder I think. If expansion tank is knackered on a boat the calorifier prv will generally dump hot water into the bilge when heating, once up to temp it will stop dripping as the expansion is done and excess got rid of. If accumulator tank is knackered see Griff's description, you won't have an accumulator at home as mains supplies the pressure and you won't drain the local water tower brushing your teeth (Rob Beckett might...).

Eat more deer / rabbits / hares / squirrels / Pheasants / pigeons.

Does that keep the hotspot alive all the time or does it time out on you? I'm thinking for a camera.

It is also worth adding to an idiots guide that the red and blue tanks are exactly the same thing except the paint on the outside, they are just set to a different pressure depending which use they are for, either colour will do either job. Easiest test for bladder leaks (no that type old man, see a doctor) is to depress the air valve a bit, if water comes out the bladder is split, but re-pressurise afterwards if just air comes out.

Or takes the roof off on a bridge....

The tidal bulge first reaches the UK at the scillies and goes both ways around meeting up again around harwich due to the restriction of the channel so the tides we see have mostly come from the north. Once it gets inland it does as it pleases.

At 8'4" you should get under st.olaves bridge below half tide (there's gauges either side) no problem, you won't need reedham bridge to open at any time, always look to see which way the tide is running and go past and turn if needed so you moor into the flow as you will have much better control at lower speed.

Last time we were out I saw a young girl very nearly dragged off the back of a HW boat at reedham by the knotted ropes she was standing on as the boat pulled off, I was leaping for the quay expecting to have to throw a lifering pretty sharpish, they are a serious hazard and should not be anywhere near a boat in that condition.

Are the yards struggling to get the staff like everyone else seems to be?

You actually be taking the same boat back that you started with, bit like triggers broom.

An external timer or remote only needs to power up one wire on an eberspacher for it to power up and run at the preset level and also do a proper cool down cycle when it shuts down, it's the yellow one between controller and heater unit, the remote box I use worked fine on my old boat too with an ancient D2L eber. Mine was from this lot http://www.waferstar.com/en/GSM-RELAY.html I have an old vodafone payg sim in and have to request a signal strength every few months to keep it active. Will have to replace at some time when 2g gives up for a newer version.

There's talk on the dark side about a helicopter hovering over st.bennetts one day and ranworth the next, exactly how big is your drone?

From memory I think it's a 3/4 bsp female to 1/2bsp male adaptor (+ a hoselock end or hosetail) you need for reedham but could be the other way round.

On my last boat the bog (sorry can't bring myself to call it the heads) light was a regular 21w 12v bulb and yes it was way too bright in the middle of the night so I changed the bulb holder for a stop/tail type fitting and put a 5w/21w bulb in and swapped the toggle switch for an on-off-on type, during lighter hours it was still bright enough for a shower and in the pitch black just switch it the other way and have a much tamer light.

Sorry Ian but my other half now has the three stickers on her phone as of monday.... She had her flu jab a couple of fridays ago, next day she flu over the handlebars on her bike, and they say it's safe. (may have actually been more to do with a very nice 4.9% porter than a flu jab )

The posts at reedham are often turned off as that part on the quay often floods, hoses are removed but taps still work.

The flow, there's probably a cill at the bottom as it appears to be a gated opening, this will push water up from the bottom, once past the flow will drop dramatically.

The driver would likely be kidnapped before you got near the mooring.

Don't keep them too busy Carole, mine is pencilled in for mid november for gel repairs.