Alan de Enfield

But it is one way of getting rid of the body - not everyone has access to Pigs

There are about a dozen marina and boat repairers listed in Lowestoft One example is : https://northgatemarine.co.uk/ we had a problem when in Lowestoft marina and they were most helpful, but I dont know how good their electrical expertise is.

Just remember that any painting (including blacking) onto cold steel does not go well between October and March, unless you can find a heated dry-dock. The dew point is critical when painting. The reason that most yards are busy is because the "operational year" is only 6 months (unless they have the aforesaid heated dry dock)

But when you repeatedly ask for information, and it is ignored, you cannot teach very much. It happens all too regularly - the original questioner seems to 'take the hump', or ignore you, if you ask for more detail.

Agreed - the yard I used for blacking had a 2 year waiting list. I'd book in for the next one when picking the boat up. Good 'yards' (for anything) are going to be booked up for many months ahead and, if they are not, then you don't want to be using them.

why not just learn to handle a boat without a 'girlie button' - you never know, you might enjoy it.

It is impossible to give meaningfull answers to inherently flawed information.

The current used to turn over the engine will be (normally) between 150 amps and 300 amps- depending on starter model If your battery is only 'outputting' 4.1 amps you have a problem somewhere.

Boats with the 'cheapo' versions tend to put a rope loop over one of the prop-blades and tie it off to the mounting pole.

They 'lock' to stop rotation.

So what is your plan to resolve these issues ? Get the vendor to sort them out ? Make a reduced price offer and you get them sorted out? Or ............. ?

You do realise that they are a broker and not an insurance company ? They change insurance providers on a regular basis depending who offers them the best deal (commission)

Not so thin - on the chart it covers about 25% of the width of the river, but does give a general 'route to follow' to avoid sandbanks etc. Friend of ours (who knows everything about everything) decided he didn't need the charts. They headed down from Newark to a wedding being held in Lincoln - got stuck on a sand bank on a falling tide, couldn't get off as the next tide was smaller and they were stuck there for 2 days (missed the wedding) until C&RT came down with their tug 'Maid Marion' and she pulled them off They said the worst part was hanging the dog over the side and squeezing it to try and empty it !

When going downstream don't try following the "Red line" shown on the map as, in reality, it is not there - it must have been washed away in the floods !!

Maybe call their technical department and ask for advice ?