Alan de Enfield

The regulators should be replaced every 10 years. There should be a date marked on it so you can find the age.

But, when they had had a run of a certain model, they'd sell on the moulds, and the 'same hull' has a new life with a different name - the OPs boat has been highlighted as such a (possible) boat..................

I used the output on the controller (right hand side 2 terminals) for the supply for the VHF radio - radio was not installed in this picture.

I am not suggesting age per se, just 'new' boats and 'old' boats (already been licenced for a year or more)

Never had that problem, but cocking-a-leg on them is not unknown.

Then you either have to pay for your non gas approved BSS inspector AND and an approved gas engineer (to do the actual gas test), or, pay whatever a Gas qualified BSS examiner wants to charge you.

Thats why you will see many boaters with a tennis ball pushed onto the top of their pins.

Another potential earner of cash for C&RT could be to follow the example of the car market, where, for a new car its 1st year licence (Road Tax / VED) is creeping up towards £5000. This would mean that 'old' boats, where the manufacturing emissions have long since been 'paid for', would become more in demand, sustaining the 2nd hand market. Buyers of new boats would then not have a 2 or 3 year lead time. £5k (or even £10k) is a piddling amount on a £150k-£300k boat. Win - Win

Yes- that is allowed in the RCD so the BSS could hardly 'ban it'. As it happens our Catamaran is fitted with a flexible rubber hose gas system to ISO 10239 The BSS states : Applicability – ‘all-hose’ systems will generally be found on imported boats, CE marked to the Recreational Craft Directive or UKCA marked according to the Recreational Craft Regulations, where the builder has chosen to apply ISO 10239. Applicability – for multi-appliance systems to ISO 10239, anticipate a manifold arrangement within the cylinder locker or housing. The "1 metre" requirement is for a different application where the appliance is used directly attached to the regulator, and is not part of the BSS checking. Applicability – single cooking appliances connected by hose of no more than 1m in length directly to a regulator are acceptable and need not be assessed against this Check. For example - a rail mounted BBQ such as the one we have fitted

An RCD HIN certainly would - down to the build month & year as well as the makers name. But, its a moot point, as it certainly predates the RCD. Builders of small GRP boats in the 70s and 80s were real "Fred in a shed" operations, buying a mould, making a few hulls and then selling on the moulds to another 'hopeful'. There could be several 'identical boats'. built by different builders.

There is an interesting report (almost 300 pages) on the canals and BWB complied by the Monopolies & Mergers Board date 1994

HIN did not become mandatory until 1998 with the introduction of the RCD. I think your boat will predate that by many years - my guess would be it's from the '80s. If you can provide some more pictures with the covers removed somene here will recognise the make and model, but the actual year is unlikely to be identified. If it is on the canal - it may have a registration number plate somehere (it could just be a 'sticker') that could possibly be traced to give you a date.

Not always giving the result you want................... Imagine you are back on your yacht and against the harbour wall in Port St Marys (IOM) with a 5.5 metre tide, how would your mooring lines be laid out ?

As an example, it is almost 3 years since my Father died, I was his executor, and, it has been a long drawn out process, with the last of his assets (transfer of land ownership) only finally being concluded this week.