DaveP

'... but recently ...' This sounds like you've got vegetation growth getting in the signal path. Do you know where your mobile transmitter is located? If you can get into the router administration pages, find the Cell ID you're using and use cellmapper.net to locate it.

a) Make and model of generator - Istabreeze 400 b) approximate cost - £200 (10 years ago) c) typical output in different conditions - Below Force 4 - nowt. Force 4-5 - a bit. Force 6 - not bad. d) total kW generated in a year - naff all: probably about 400Wh. c) would you buy a wind generator again based on your experience? Absolutely not. It's best use was as a marker in London, says two things a) Don't breast up unless you like noise and vibration, b) Ah, there's the boat (after a night in the pub). If I had a mooring on some windswept moorland, then possibly, but otherwise I'd rather invest in chocolate teapots.

In general, landowners don't have rights to the airspace over their property - so overflying is fine (but subject to other things like the right to peaceable enjoyment, privacy and the like which restrict close/noisy flying, use of cameras etc). Some areas have restrictions - eg airports and the like. However, landing and taking-off is a use of the _land_ so the owner has more rights to restrict that activity.

... and as one of the exceptions are small drones (<250g) - they can be flown inside this limit (although not over crowds). The boats inside the dams don't have people in them, so this is not a limit for even large drones there.

I suspect none actually have. We've asked about our local one, got sent a 'Heads of Terms' lease letter which had to be replied to a month ago and heard nothing since. The block is still open and being serviced.

CRT are advertising one of the many vacancies in the Kingswood basin as short-term.... https://www.watersidemooring.com/546-kingswood-basin-l1-leisure/Vacancies#berth6474

Our lengthsman was around today, inspecting the toilet and shower. He had not been told anything about the facilities being closed (but he has been away on leave for a fortnight).....

'Exploring' is very apt, since they didn't even ask for contact details on the expression of interest form.

From today's Boaters Update... "Excluding the small number of showers and toilets where we have already received an expression of interest, and some toilets at key visitor destinations, all other non-essential facilities will be closed from Monday 3 November." Interestly, they didn't ask for any contact details when expressing an interest in taking on a CSF - so how exactly they're going to progress that, I have no idea...

But since CRT passed on details of cc'rs the other year for the purposes of the winter fuel payment, it obviously now knows and accepts that those people _are_ liveaboards. So that's at least one set where permission has been granted. In my case, I've always put my contact address for BW/CRT as the boat with a vague route plan for the year. They've not raised this as an issue yet...

If you're planning on heading South, it's 4.5hr to the top of Stratford locks where there's rough mooring alongside the Premier Inn car park. You can walk into town from there in 15min. Or it's another hour down the locks to the riverside basin. If North, there's the Fleur de Lys with plentiful mooring opposite in 3 hrs travel

Very frustrating when a, no changes to report, update to the 'operating every other hour' notice for Gloucester lock is issued at 1330 and less than four hours later, a closure notice comes out.

Dunno about the Cerbo, but I have fitted a hall effect flow sensor (YF-S201) with a Pi PicoW, which sends mqtt messages to a db. I also have one fitted into a box for attaching to the filler hose that does the same and also displays the calculated time to fill the tank. Get about a 2-3% error.

Yes, my panels sit in the top of boxes made from scaff boards. My roof is fairly flat (50mm rise from edge to middle so they work better than, say, a Liverpool boat's, cabin top).