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After a snow storm in London caught everyone out, the mayor of London was asked where are the snowploughs? He replied, Yes we can have all the snowploughs you want. But you are going to have pay for the drivers and maintenance along with a place to keep them for what? A once in a 50 year event. Back up plans cost. Remember austerity folks

For the public, I think Stalin said this A handful of deaths is tragic, thousands is a statistic and that sums it up. Most just are not seeing the deaths and suffering so can’t relate. A bit like seeing people die of famine on tv and you go back to eating your dinner

Then just change the law. They voted for on Thursday. What’s the reason for allowing you to travel, now, any distance as long as it ends in exercise?

Apparently you can fish now.

How Hill to the Bridge fill me with dread! As a newish owner and a long time hirer that section is deadly. leaving the bridge approach aside, it’s the only place I instruct the crew to repel boarders. Stopped at how Hill to walk the dog and a cream custard or two, met and admired a wooden craft and then proceeded to get hit by others on a regular basis. It got so bad The Enemy instructed me never to grace the moorings again. Im not the only one am I?

So that’s that then. The Broads are now shut to all. This next bit from government website. Exercising and meeting other people You should minimise time spent outside your home. It is against the law to meet socially with family or friends unless they are part of your household or support bubble. You can only leave your home to exercise, and not for the purpose of recreation or leisure (e.g. a picnic or a social meeting). This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area So I guess this applies to fishing and sailing?

There was a series in America where they take your car without you knowing it and return it fully customized within a week. Turns out that the parts used was not the best, the cheapest sponsor ones and the car returned was usually not the same one that left due to the car needing too much work so it was easier to get one less damaged. To add insult to injury, some cars actually lost market value due to the work done. It got better, as the paint work aged, it bubbled up. The filler used on panels fell out and chassis parts parted due to incomplete welds.

We are finding new creative ideas and quick solutions to problems just ain’t happening. Nor one to one relationships developing with the workforce and all decisions just take too long. zoom meetings and emails just takes the spontaneous moments out of the chain of work. im forever waiting for answers

Went to the Southampton boat show a couple of years ago. The internet has really killed off these shows as I could, and did, find better deals. Still I bought a Honda engine, boat deal and I could see the quality so it was good for the big ticket items.

so that leaves 25% and 15% that did not. a very large amount. It is not the figure that complied is important, its the amount that did not.

Irresponsible maybe but understandable. The government said you had a day to get back home for Christmas and what do think would happen? Anyway the travel restrictions from London tier 4 didn't apply to 12 midnight so technically they was not breaking any rules in that regard. That what happens when you delay and bluster.

sky/Netflix, take your pick has killed the idea of a family advent TV programming. The days of big tv advents have long gone with the dilution of tv audiences who can basically watch what they want, when they want. You cant spend the big money on shows with minuscule viewing figures. Morecombe and wise had over half of the available tv viewing audience watching it but then again, you had only 3 channels available. In 2019, line of duty on the BBC had 12 million people watching it. EastEnders Christmas 1986 edition had 30 million viewers. the big films have gone to those that pay extra for them. Its just not financially viable to go all out on Christmas TV

Good luck with that. police stated, backed up by mrs pritel, they won’t be knocking on doors unless there is a house party. Traffic police won’t be stopping people and checking only as part of routine stops. so it’s down social pressure and doing the right thing. And if the public decide to follow the rules

Playing devils advocate here and having family in Tours in france. Funny how the comments here ignore the other countries who have banned imports and have nothing to do with the EU. I say again, we have an image problem. we are not looked upon as plucky little Uk. The new variant of covid is called British covid and with our infection figures regarded as an island of quarantine. We openly talked about sending in the navy and have problems in dealing with legitimate soled fishing rights that we now want to snatch back. Im not putting us down but we have to get realistic on what we are and what we once was. These are two different things. The french will be nightmares because the worker still has power and we are an island that is very far from supporting itself. More than most people imagine. This is how much we depend on ports and always have, that was why we had the biggest navy in the world to make sure trade kept moving.

Then again, a government minister stands up and says to the world we have a mutant strain of covid ripping through Kent and you think France would say nothing? 40 countries also said no way. And what did we say about China and did not the public say why did we not close the borders? it’s like the sketch where one nazi says to the other, are we the baddies then?

As stated in another post, we field tested 4x4 electric cars. No, just no. Not wildly known, but the batteries seriously under performed in cold weather and when under stress and even when loaded with gear. But it was the cold weather that really cut the life of the battery, lithium really can’t perform when the outside temp creeps close to zero. And one more thing. It takes 5 minutes to fill a tank of fuel. At one stage we had 7 cars off the road waiting to charge.

Here's a clue.. When the QE2 was being built, in 1965, The workers where using a sheet metal bender built in 1905, steam powered and needed a hundred people to tend. The shipyard was desperate to modernise, use a hydraulic machine that need 20 men to use. The union said no, the ship workers said no. The shipyard died. Dockers and container use. The same result. Its not union bashing, after all the union is made up of members. But the pace of change is a race and if one country modernises then you had better or the customer will go. Nothing stays still forever, except maybe the Broads Authority

What shocked me is what we don’t make in this country. where I work we use a type of bolt that can stretch and be weather proof. It’s used in crash barriers. They come from France. When asked why can’t we get them from here the answer was that we don’t have factory that can anymore and when we did the quality was iffy. When asked why don’t we build one again it was pointed out that no one wants a smelter near them, you can’t build one in five minutes and who has the skills to work in one now. We have become a service economy

Don’t forget Darts.

Yup, its the sea mentality. Plus the plant operator thinking. On the Broads you kind of get into the habit of thinking your safe because you can see both banks! Think about the length of time that old engine will run added to how far away from it you are. Four or five hours cruise will put you some distance if you was in a car driving around the UK. What the engine looses in miles it makes up for in time. This is why I warm the engine up, no good finding out your weed filter is semi blocked or your engine thermostat is stuck closed mid river.

Why I’m saying this mixing of anything into the engine is very serious as the oil level and pressure would rise making the engine smoke and leak from the breather mainly and you would notice this on your daily checks as the oil would rise up the dip stick. A leaking injector could to the same but again you would notice the oil level rising. On balance and from distance I would say you have oil leaking into a cylinder and as long as you are prepared to keep topping up it won’t be a major problem anytime soon. But then again, don’t sue me😃

Just to be clear. Raw cooling water gets sucked up from the river, enters the heat exchanger, cools the sealed engine cooling water anti freeze mix and then gets injected into the exhaust flow at the elbow to cool your exhaust gas so it don’t melt the rubber pipe. Unburnt oil especially at start up because it hasn’t had time to burn will mix rather than smoke after that an engine burning lots of oil will have a particular smell

Take me coat, I’m on my way.

Ok, If the engine responds well in the ahead position then it can only be either the throttle set up in the stern position or the force of stopping your prop and the initial reluctance of water and force to change direction.

oil would get into the raw water circuit via exhaust valve seals. Into cylinder, out unburnt to mix with water injector at elbow and then over board. The seals around the valve stems harden over time and this is more noticeable on first start as the oil has time to seep down the stems and will lessen as day goes on or valve stems/guides have worn. Also, is the oil right grade? Too thin can leak past. It will never get better and if this was a car it would emit a puff of smoke on start up. Its not fatal just keep your on oil level as the fix, especially on a marine engine is a head off operation.