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salad for tea it was followed by a little more fishing and a few of theses green things oh stellas they were very nice thank you moored here at coltishall green we kept see ing a large Barn Owl flying arround the open meadow opposite the moorings and yes forgot to get any pics . so bed time as its been a busy day Next morning early awake as i always am on the broads up at 4.30 nice brew of tea and a listen to the local radio for the weather letting me know to expect some rain later today so as i lay dozing watching the wildlife scooting around and an occasional tap from a ducks beak on the side of the boat asking for bread with a disatisfied quack as they carrry on to the next boat and do the same another tea and April getting up so a coffee for her and make us some breakfast of egg bacon sausage and toms mmmmmmmmm cant beat it on the water can you so a quick wash up and wash down lol drop the cockpit canopy and check the engine over alls fine 8.30 now so ok to start the engine at a tickover and untie the lines and move off heading for Wroxham and roys again for a few things as we dont know where we will get any other stuff on our travels.

as we clear the dyke leading to Womack lots of peepe waving and happy in the great sunshine as we get to thurne dyke we eyeball swordfish and his wife heading up for the return of their boat to herbert woods . We turn right at the Bure and head for coltishall lots of boats on the water.as we pass the Swan in horning we see Pete Sue and Hank moored there , as we reach wroxham broad we see Sue and Robin heading for Roys at wroxham for shopping for the group with them and no doubt a good barbie we pass under wroxham bridge and also visit Roys for bits of shopping we carry on to coltishall amazed as the water is clearing the further we go so we arrive at the lock and moor with rhond ancors and do a bit of fishing April gets a few tiddlers i get bored lol so we pack up and move down to the Green and moor for the night what a great day all in warm sunshine and lots of room to moor as well looks like a nice salad for tea then to be continued

Hi folkes just got back from a brilliant weekend on the water so here goes with a tale , We booked with Martham 25th July for this weeekend just gone 31st to 3rd with a bit of swopping and shifting from Diane otherwise we wouldent have made it and we got Judith 3 for the 2 of us so better still. So early up at 4am friday, load the car and set off arround 4.30 just breaking light A57 through to the A1 then the A1 to the A17 (worst bit of road in England im sure) no problems tho at this early hour got to Kings Lynn and the A47 no probs carry on to Norwich saw Sainsburys thought ooooo breakfast but no still closed branch off on to the Wroxham road and ended up at Tesco 24 hour store for a very good breaky and nice break had 3/4 hour stop. Carry on to Martham and arrive at 9.15 to be greeted by Terry oh no not you again with a big grin on his face great bloke cant do enough for you what boat you on he askes Judith 3 i said oh she needs cleaning and topping up yet so we go into the office and are greeted by Diane who immediately offers tea or coffee which we decline as we are still full from the breakfast she sorts the paperwork and gets us a life jacket each so we can get off as soon as the boat is ready . The cleaners are on Terry is doing the pump out and filling with fuel Batterys are checked and the engine geta a once over as the cleaners leve the boat we start loading all the stuff we have brought . Then we notice a House Martin has nested in the shelter cover of the fuel pump and has 2 hatchlings which they are busy feeding and this is the first time they have done it. Gets to 10.30 everything ready done and dusted so we set off down the Thurn towards potters where Tim takes us under the bridge and sees us off We intand to get to Coltishall for the night so we keep going and see lots of Herbert Woods boats heading for home for the saturday swop overs to be continued

whos been messing with the site set up what a mess can it go back to how it was plz!!!

hi Geoff nice 1 keep it coming

Steve i would be tempted to try another ammeter if you use a multimeter and test the voltage charge rate it should be arround 14.6 volts max if its over this then yes suspect the alternator regulator the 14.6 volts should be checked accross one of the batterys also check from the alternator out put terminal they should be the same give or take a volt

a few adaptors and fittings http://www.aquaflowuk.com/Flexible_Hose/26

Roy could it be a hardy spicer coupling if so they are easy to replace just a good vice needed http://www.hardyspicer.com.au/whats_new_driveline.asp

another option would be to use an electric motor and use a battery tank for balast lol

i would sell the batterys for scrap and buy something less (probable to leak cause problems etc)

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-remove ... m-wood.htm this one seems ok

hi andy funny you should post this as i was thinking the other day with these new led lights they should be quite easy to fit plus very visable the only thing then are white lights for seeing foreward not forgetting the reflection off the water http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/caravanmotor ... 60698fa403 the white light strips may even give enough light for use on the broads http://www.lighting-direct.co.uk/led-li ... tAodEHm11A also good low power consumption

you can buy piano hinges in about 1m lengths made out of brass from good hardware shops so you can cut it to whatever length you need should be ok for what you want http://www.cglass.co.uk/piano-hinge-pr-17203.html

or you could hire from a yard that includes fuel like Martham Boats you get a full tank of fuel inclusive thats 114 litres

omg Barry when are you fitting the wings lol lol lol nice busbars David oh and JIMBO if soldering is good enough for NASA I guess it would be over the top for a boat lol http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shutt ... gteam.html

hi Barry a couple of links for you on cable http://stores.ebay.com/Genuinedealz_Mar ... idZ2QQtZkm http://www.evelcables.co.uk/epages/Store2_Shop1476.sf if i was doing a rewire i think i would run a ring round the boat for eath return to the batterys as the builder you know where you want power roughly so then you solder the cable to a copper plate with tapped holes in it screw it to the wood work and then solder on another length of cable to the next plate etc so then you have a fixed earth system to wire to and then you can run your positive leads as required preferably wrapped in spirawrap or simular to hold the wiring loom together another good place for the heavy cable is a welding supply store as they use it for earths for welding lol ( 12 or 24 volts only )

idealy a 110ah battery should not be used to start engines they are designed to be charged and discharged constantly and not provide the ammount of amps required to start engines where 200amps and more on diesel engine in the cold pull to start them this can cause warping of the plates in a leisure battery and so lose its use prematurely your better having a 644 model battery for starting or a 645 (poles reversed) http://www.querycat.com/faq/64d0cd44de3 ... 496e025182 above gives lots more info

the bends are too tight jonny deffo but the length dont help dont guess at the length either pull one back into the engine bay so its right at the helm then mark it off for the gears and for the throttle with an indellable marker pen so you know the correct length pull it ouit of the boat making sure you tie a strong string to the end to pull the right length back into place also the helm needs rebuilding and making solid as the morse lever you have is a bit 10-1 as the hard movement has weakened the mounts http://www.controlsandcables.com/kobelt/kobeltpp.htm now theres a thought a 3 stage electric motor fwd-neutral-rev sorry for the extra rough drawing lol

apparently diesel forms sulphides when in contact with zinc and copper http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_dies ... and_copper

go the whole hog les fit bigger ram and hard drive m8 oooops just checked mine and its 90% empty lol