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ExUserGone

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  1. The water repelling oil absorbent mats go a long way to keeping the two apart, they usually hold a heck of a lot of oil and float on top of the water so it's ok to discharge and if theres enough water to sink a boat the whole engine full of oil ends up in the river anyway along with the contents of the fuel tanks. I've only ever had twins with bilge pumps so the middle of the engine bay is separate from where the bilge pump is anyway but always use the mats under the engines, or 'engine nappies' as I call them.
  2. The lower bure is ideal for showers, plenty of running time for the hot water, shifts on the helm, job done.
  3. Freezeban is supposed to be ok for domestic water systems but I've never fancied the idea myself. Always leave taps open so any water in the system has somewhere to go as it expands and it's not pressured to start with, I've never yet done a full drain down, if you have flexible pipes they should have enough give to be ok.
  4. It always was a requirement to either have a drip tray under engines or no bilge pump in that area, I guess the filter idea gives the bilge pump option if not possible to have a drip tray as I don't remember any filter option in the early days of bss.
  5. That has to be a better design than the original setup, much less prone damage.
  6. Do you think a mole could outrun a rocket hurtling along the confines of a tunnel?
  7. Many years ago a section of the nene was drained down through peterborough, along with all the cars/motorbikes/trolleys was a landrover and horsebox, unfortunately the horses were still inside, shame the thieving spineless oxygen thieves that dumped it were not.
  8. There's probably half the boats on the broads and most of the boats on the canals with tanks like that and they will never have any problems from it till they actually leak, it's only when it gets shaken up it's a problem.
  9. Did you change the design at all? GRP overhanging rubbing strake seems to make the rubbing strake pointless. Enjoy the water whatever the weather.
  10. Could have got close when one got down to nothing more than idle heading for the blackwater in lumpy weather earlier this year and the other was starting to lose power, shut the knackered one down and dropped to displacement speed on the one still going but still out on quite exposed lumpy water, luckily the planning was good and we still made 10knots over ground and got into sheltered water, thought about diverting to brightlingsea but carried on to bradwell as planned. Rather do it now and not worry so much next year when the weather isn't quite as expected, been towed in before with fuel problems and don't want to waste rnli time again over maintenence issues that can be avoided, not my fault last time as I'd had tanks open on my old boat and clean enough to use the house vacuum cleaner without a bo**ocking but picked up some crap diesel from a marina in the process of changing hands (but not fuel pump filters) and had no end of problems.
  11. This is the base plates from my tanks when I cut them open, no wonder I was having trouble every time I hit lumpy water.
  12. It's because the fuel tanks are full of rust and crud and some idiot put a pair of volvo's in the way. As for VP prices, the oil cooler on the port one was technically scrap (raw water leak) but is now repaired for the cost of £0.00 and pressure tested fine on both oil and water sides, cost to replace £840 + carriage! It seems it's hand crafted from swedish mermaids ovaries hence the price. It has lost over a ton so it's bum is well and truly exposed. No chance of freezing up though.
  13. What do you mean all? The rest are still at the boat.... I have 11x 20 litre and 3x 10 litre.
  14. It's such a shame the world no longer seems to work on that system any more, we wouldn't have to have all the bloody signs everywhere warning us of our own stupidity. I've fell off my pushbike plenty of times, and who was to blame? Me generally (usually pi**ed), not fell in the river (YET) but when I do I will probably not have a LJ on but it will be my own fault you can be sure. I'm one of those that likes the darwin awards, if you are not clever enough to stay alive at least give the rest of us a laugh on your way out.....
  15. Visability is the reason I have always used yellow 110v cable for any home made shore power leads, unfortunately my long lead is a pre-made extension so is done in blue, it's also the one that I use most often these days so mind your step.
  16. Can these things be programmed to not transmit at all, I'm intrigued but have no wish to transmit on it, just a nosey git really.
  17. Call greenpeace and get them towed out to deeper water..... It's best to turn someone in the river so they face away from you that way you only have to lift them to bum level to get them on the edge otherwise you need to get them to knee level before it gets easy, we don't bend well the other way.
  18. Sorry didn't realise you were a native of the real rivers.
  19. Visitors are allowed on the southern rivers at the moment as my engines are both in the garage at home and my fuel tanks are in the garden so I'm going nowhere, can you be back north by the time I put it back together please, we don't want to mix with too much northern river riff-raff...
  20. I remember a weather forecast many moons ago with the magnetic symbols when the F dropped off the fog label, without thinking the forecaster announced "sorry about the F in fog", I don't believe he intended it to sound like it did but I did LMAO. I don't remember which forecaster it was.
  21. Numbnuts that get halfway through the pub door and then have a 5 minute conversation despite the fact it's winter and there's a howling gale coming through freezing everyone inside, go outside and talk or come in and talk you bloody idiots!!!!!!! Not stood with the sodding door wide open!!!!! And breathe........
  22. 5/8" unf springs to mind from my old 2.5bmc days. 1/8npt is a common american pipe size, some npt match with bsp but lots are 1 TPI different, they also use different pitch angles on the thread form (55 & 60 degrees but can't remember which way). There you go an answer and an education.
  23. Common sense should apply in most situations, minor disabilities can be got round a lot of the time and should not rule anybody out of doing anything but the nature of boats and water means you should stick to stuff you are safe doing. When I changed boats part of my absolute requirements was it must have an electric windlass and self launching anchor roller as I have varying lack of coordination in my left are and very little feeling in it due to ms and anchoring is the most dangerous part of a sea trip.
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