Jim

Hi Bill, We have never drank the tap water and only use it for washing up/showers. We take bottled water for drinking or cooking although we do sometimes fill a container from the fresh water tap at the mooring. I like the carbon filter idea though!

Hi all, Earlier this year, we had a leak on our water system which was fixed by our marina. As part of the job, they also fitted a new set of taps to the galley (been waiting for them to do that for two years) as the switches had failed. I am certain the leak was below the cabin floor but their invoice says the leak was on the calorifier which seems odd as if there was a leak there, the water would collect in the engine bay and not under the cabin floor. Our boat has three tank vents, one connected to the cold tank in the bow and two others on the starboard side of the hull. Usually, when the tanks are full during filling, water would pour out of these vents but since the "repair" water overflows from the filling point instead and not the vents. I have drained and re-filled the tanks in case there was an air lock but there is no difference. Not only that but despite using umpteen Milton tablets, the water has a horrible "rotten egg" pong ever since. I did empty the tanks last weekend and poured in about a litre of water heavily dosed with Milton to try and get rid of the smell. I have asked our marina many times to let me know exactly where the leak was and why the tank vents no longer work. Despite many emails, phone calls, they still never told me anything! Any ideas/suggestions much appreciated

London Heathrow put a message out on all radios. Was halfway being admitted to work airside when the announcement came through.

Dreamland?? A big blast from the old days there Iain. My mum bought us Dreamland leccy blankies when I was 7, some 53 yrs ago lol

Bought in Feb 2010 and not used too much. We just pack it away carefully so apart from a visual check, not serviced at all. Valid points made by other members re airing etc all help too. It wasn't expensive so replacing would not be an issue. These days, we book a local holiday let instead rather than rough it out on the mooring....we are getting on a bit at 60 and 57!

Electric Overblanket! Leave on all night and no worries. Best thing we ever bought from good old Roys.

Thanks tjg, ordered this morning and delivered this afternoon! It will be fitted in place of the old tube heater asap. Hope it will save a few quid but if it does switch in a bit early, no worries!

Thanks Alan and Regulo, Earliest I can get to ours will be this coming Sunday so hope to get her at least plugged in for the time being. Fellow forum members have always kept us in the loop about power issues whenever they could and we only had one "near miss" in the Winter of 2010/11. The marina did suffer a power outage for a short while during a very cold spell so when we got back to our boat in March 2011 we discovered some damage. There was an old water filter fitted on the galley which we never used as the whole thing was so old, I could not get the top off to replace the ceramic cartridge. The whole unit had exploded and there was ceramic all over the cabin so it saved me the job of removing it! We had also blown a core plug in the raw water manifold and no other damage thankfully.

Hi all, We have kept our boat in for 9 years of the 11 we have owned her. Standard practice has been to empty all the water tanks, get holding tank emptied, check internal cooling system anti freeze and plug in a frost heater in the engine bay and oil filled radiator in the cabin. The tube heater in the engine bay had never run via thermostat and that is one thing I would like to do this year. Can you recomment the unit on your boat Alan?

Oh Dear lol

Funny! I remember a guy here that referred to his attempts at mooring as a "controlled collision"

It was years before we finally got our own mudweight. Until then, I just relied on a danforth anchor we aquired from the previous owner. When I managed to cruise from Ranworth to the Bure with that anchor deployed, I soon realised it was no good in those situations!

One metre of chain plus 18 Kg mudweight holds our Falcon22 well in all situations.

Interesting thought Robin but many probs to negotiate me thinks. I work on a site in Hants that has a long set of floating pontoons (plus pipeline) attactched to the shore (via a swivel anchor point) and the other end is a sand dredger sitting on a lake. It is a very stable structure but the dredger helps hold the position via two large winch cables which are staked into the other shore.

Always been a big fan of Norwich so not going to let one area spoil that. Years ago, I went to renew our tolls when the BA were in Colgate and I parked some distance away. The long walk took me past all the chapels and art shops and was well worth it I can tell you! One good reason to call it a Fine City.

I have a load as does Jimbo who owned her. We will post them soon!

Under certain conditions it can flood Peter. The moorings are much improved since raised whereas it used to be a regular feature as Alan pointed out!

I have some pics of M501 taken when we hired her in 1988 as Ferry Privateer 3 then from Ferry Boatyard if you are interested, What a fab makeover she has had, you must be really pleased with the outcome!

"Not much for your buck if the prices are going up with less facilities, parking is not great, security is piece meal and with no pontoon moorings is a bit of joke because of the flooding issues, wellies were always part of our boat kit just to get aboard the boat." Flooding not ben an issue since 2009. All the quayheadings and pontoons were raised and completed by June that year.

About £70.00 per foot roughly

12 years moored there and quite a lot of change in that time, some for better but some perhaps worse. We haven't been in The Ferry since 2012 and I think things have changed there now. Workshop and Marina reception moved to the river bank, no petrol anymore but moorings a leccie posts much better since 2009

Not sure how it will pan out. If it is licenced it will get some use I'm sure and we wonder what else may be on offer there?

No reason given for the closure. Mooring fees have jumped up a bit too

We got the letter on Friday. So, a new marina members lounge instead? The chippie was handy though but in 12 years of being there, we never used the laundry so won't miss that.

Sorry to hear your news.