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Lack of information for the hirer. Many companies make battery monitors to tell you the status of your battery bank and more importantly, how long until it’s discharged in hours. mines made by NASA and it tells me the charge rate, discharge rate and how many hours left. Next year I’m putting in solar panels enough to run the fridge. Running the engine for hot water is a new one one me

Well the on call boys swung into action and found a lose pipe from the lift pump and changed the fine filter seals. Then cracked the injection nuts and she started like they all do at full throttle. Did not like the alternator tension so that got done. Noticed oil leak from filter so that got a new gasket. Then around to swan quay for an engine bay clean. Im well happy so here’s to starting in the morning

….and a no start again. Really enjoying this two week holiday. Going to get every Diesel joint rebuilt but at least Richardson’s are on the ball.

Correct. Also explosion of warehouse jobs that pay way more than hospitality for those online deliveries. We are a funny country that expects a lot for our money.

Thanks, your advice has been golden! All done now and back to boatyard.

Thanks to rob ( Sutton boatyard) it turns out a defective olive on pipe leading to injection pump. Leaking a little when running. So his off to get spares. The pleasures of boating and machinery! A good reminder for recovery service.

…..And we are stuck on Boundry Farm 24hour moorings. Got up early for a crossing and she wouldn’t start. looks like an air in fuel situation so here goes the bleeding. Say hi if you see us!

You know, very wise words. But I did learn that these ain’t modern engines although reliable do need care and attention and looking at the owners manual, a host of little things to do that you don’t do in this day and age. Like cleaning and checking injector drive oil screen. Also learnt that there are no longer piles of spares lying around. There used to be as the fleets modernised but these was scrapped, sold or used and now getting bits of the shelves just is not happening. Exchange only for the big ticket items that really can add to turn around times. re-engine? I was quoted anything up to £10000. Which to many boat owners is eye watering.

Final fettling done and I’m back. As a postscript to this saga, my last engine was really burning diesel compared to this one. I was hitting 6 miles to the gallon. Was that a sign of trouble? This one seems lower.

Hi all update, I took advice from you and kept quiet until matters resolved. For starters Richardson’s have been great and finding second hand 1.8 at reasonable price range very hard. But we are happy with the 1.5 replacement as we are told better engine. Engines for the 1.8 version are really about reworking your old one and can really push up the turn around time for a major fix The engine was serviced on the day we bought her and had done less than 20 hours, 10 months old less used because of lockdown and filled with the best oil. Never over heated in my presence., not frozen because of engine heater and I filled the raw water with anti freeze. It was booked in for service this month but I my go for over kill and give it a winter and summer jobbie because we plan to use it all year. They say it was a failed tensioner but I think it was more than that. Annov theory rings true but all the fitters agree it’s something they have never seen before. A big shout out to Paul Richardson for putting up with my increasing panic texts😀

Water Rail spotted at Stalham. So that’s a tick ✔️ In my nerdy book of boat spotting.

look up you tube channel sail life, his restoring a sail boat fully and shows you how to do everything.

Looking back on my days refitting shops, I bet refitting boats is a very expensive undertaking and not cheap either. If you haven't got a big yard with many different departments able to step in it must be time consuming as well. Add in the ever changing expectations of hirers and the relentless pace of technology it must be one hell of a struggle for the smaller yards. A bit like an arms race with the other yards. For an example, when I first hired in the early 90's, we still had gas heating and gas fridge and the tv was an extra.

Can’t understand the need to go back in time to cook over an open fire, choke your neighbours with smoke and offer food inna bun when you have a great grill in the boat. look forward to the time you stop using your washing machine and trot down to the stream to rub your clothes against a rock to clean them😀

More annoying is when they don’t moor up close so they can leave a little space to fish from the bank. plus the classic lets fish at the stern of my boat but in the face of your boat because my family wants to sit in the bows of mine without me fishing there. really puts them out when I start method fishing from the well of my boat.

You sir, have won the internet. Well done and I’m having that joke.

We ended up visiting year after year until it made sense to be an owner.

That web based auction site has killed a lot of trade off.

Otters already here. As for beavers, since the Broads are largely man made and I think beavers have been gone for a very long time, is there a place for them? And the otters seem very controversial at the moment, some blaming the depleted duck, coot numbers on them.

I think the greater public would want rail travel over navigation

With the size of government majority I guess any rights can be changed. In the 90s I seem to remember a lot of rights was cleared from the books. Parliament’s sovereign right?

More than half of the UK land area is farmland (fields, orchards etc), just over a third might be termed natural or semi-natural (moors, heathland, natural grassland etc), a little under 6% is built on (roads, buildings, airports, quarries etc) and 2.5% is green urban (parks, gardens, golf courses, sports pitches etc). even though it feels it, the uk is far from being built over. and what houses we are building are the wrong type.

Mains power indicator on the helm. A little neon light connected to nearest mains socket, really cheap, easy install About 4 pound on flea bay

Happens all the time when anchoring in a deserted bay. Bang. Everyone starts dropping hooks around you. it my be humans like to flock together. The thing is some boats catch the wind differently and turn at different rates.

Ah the horror of text! In no way was I criticising the boatyard or at least I intended not to. Bought last year, lockdown, then after working through lock down, my first holibobs my boat breaks down. Then to top it all, first time in 10 years, I get posted to Suffolk to work so long weekends away on my boat is a thing, I have to do the 300 mile round trip instead. Frustrated? Yes but not raving. As to the engine here’s what I know. No signs of anything wrong before I switched off the engine for the night. Next day, no start. As if the engine stop was still on. Popping out of the air intake when cranked long enough. massive rocker gaps on all but cylinder one tappets. when turned by hand on crank the rockers don’t move and the timing chain feels lose. when turned by starter everything moves as it should. the push rods are fine. The best theory I’ve come across is the timing chain jumping under low tension but that don’t account for every thing. Lastly, I’m not airing my dirty washing online. I was just keeping those who asked informed.