Smoggy

Same phone number, they don't have a marina website as moorings are more of a sideline.

There's a few boats up for sale at wroxham marine (down griffin lane in thorpe, they started out in wroxham(sheerline yard)) so could be space there in the near future, there's no leccy but the quay edge is ok, worth having a word with the guys down there.

Now that is good customer service indeed, but don't they call it MDMA nowadays?

You trip is not turning out to be the best advert for HW is it.

They might even have haven bridge fixed by then, nah maybe not....

The trick to changing that engine filter is to put a plastic bag under and up to the top before undoing the cntre bolt by the way, that way you catch the diesel.

Plumbing looks to be tank to valve to water strainer to lift pump to engine filter to injector pump. Injector pump leak back to engine filter spare inlet, injector leak back to engine filter bleed screw and back to tank, so that operating the lift pump without engine running should bleed engine filter back to the tank it's just a case of knowing when it's full, any leaks on engine filter should show up by diesel leaking as it's on the pressure side so unfound air leaks getting in are likely to be at the water seperator, if you drain that one you will need to bleed although small amounts of air should naturally self bleed the way your tank return is plumbed.

I've never got further up the road than the town house, may have to try it sometime.

CHB?

You need the NHS app, not the NHS covid 19 app for booking into places as that is different, the plain NHS app will also let you book appointments and order repeat prescriptions from your phone, I think I had to scan a photo ID (I used passport) and record a short video saying some numbers that came up so they could verify the identity. On my other halfs phone (nokia 5) for some reason the video bit wouldn't come up so she had to do it on mine first then she could login to it on hers.

That's gonna mess up the fuel deposit!

November is good if dry and bright, if wet and windy it is likely to put you off as boats are very damp places in that sort of weather. For a taster summer is a much better option as it will be when you would use your own boat the most.

As the OP said sports cruiser it's worth mentioning that an older volvo (especially TMD/TAMD 41A's) that smokes on startup is not a sign of problems, they were like that from new and will never be any different, first open up after poodling along rivers tends to be a smokey affair as well, it's just a bit of oil build up in the turbo from running with no boost pressure and soon clears.

Looks good but you are putting a curse on it by using the F word. There's no such thing as finished!

I have a 24" sharp smart telly (aquos or something) that comes with mains brick and 12v cigar lighter adaptor, we just use it on 12v, it gets taken home and used as the bedroom telly too with a quick retune (a few minutes). I put a SSD on the back with a sata/usb lead so it can record stuff at home and give me a bunch of films to watch if crap signal somewhere or sod all's on, also lots of music gigs downloaded from youtube (via 4k video downloader) to the SSD. It's a bit slow to start up but all in all I'm well pleased with it.

Snail racing on the broads??? I thought they were called regattas.

I quite like when they leave a short gap at the end, I can tuck the tail on it and the rest can hang in the middle of nowhere, I only care about the bit we get on and off from, the rest don't need a quay heading.

I believe it's down to repeatedly being dropped into the tank and eventually wearing a hole in the bottom as they always hit the same spot.

They always did, just behind the helm.

After an hour I just call it again, be scuppered when 2g gets switched off though. Call no.2 usually indicates kraken o'clock... Or black magic if I have some. Mmmm rummmmmm.

They always fit with enough throttle, same with bridges....

Nah, I phone the heating from the pub as I get the last* round in and it runs for an hour with extra ducts running under the duvet, when we get back the boat is toasty and the bed is roasted, get in a warm bed and you stay that way all night without heating on. As for the open fire/pub theory, we've been known to take a bag of logs along with us in winter. * last may not really mean last.

It'd be interesting to know the weight out vs the weight back in as it'd give a good idea as to just how much water she holds, depending how long out of the water of course, I doubt they let her dry out completely.

Whoa there! This is the NBN you know, there's no need for rash moves like that.... Real life and a session on the workshop floor will teach far more than any uni course.

My first thought to "how did you find the boat" was " it was where he left it, it always is".