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Scot II, turning above Muirtown Locks in Inverness, August 1978. A converted ice breaker running trips through Dochgaroch to Loch Ness

I've never met a poor insurance broker.... Quite a few seriously wealthy ones though. But underwriting is one whole level UP. Two levels even!

Looks like the sale will go through after all, I'm getting excited... Current owners have mainly been "floaters" rather than "boaters" so no solar and are plugged into shoreline 24/7. Batteries are listed as 1x120Ah for engine starter, 620Ah domestic, 240Ah bow thruster. I've had a go at working out a kind of worst case energy consumption scenario, which would certainly require running the engine once a day. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtzkGQWkirfYjsbP8xQjs84RDI3BEMSjAWEjUjS4c7w/edit?usp=sharing

If you're not going to have 230Vac available all the time to plug the mains adapter into, you'll also need a clean 12V 1A DC power supply for it, get a DC-DC converter for about a tenner. It can't be powered from a USB socket.

I was envisaging drilling in to the steel. I ve ordered the router and will see if it works using my magnetic twin aerials. If not , I'll regroup.

Perhaps some of the 2% could go towards recommissioning the pill boxes, CRT have an opportunity here to apply for funding and lease out back to the M.O.D. we’ve had this one on another thread, bonus point if you remember where it is?

If you think the UK can do anything whatsoever to prevent wars, especially after doing its best to bust a local alliance, declaring its willingness to break international law and its opposition to any general definition of human rights, you really need help. We'd be a lot better off having a nice well kept water park to play on while the rest of the fools play games.

Draft or craft? Craft (i.e. keg) is almost always chilled, draft rarely is... 😉

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68880171 Downing Street says spending would increase gradually over the next six years, reaching £87.1bn by 2030 - £7bn higher than if spending stayed at its current level of 2.3% of GDP. That 0.2% of GDP increase -- not the total! -- is about 30x higher than CART's annual budget. If they'd increased it by 0.197% instead of 0.2%, that would have paid for a 50% increase in the total CART budget, probably enough to make all their maintainance/funding problems disappear... 😞

Do we want to prevent WW3, or do we want to have a longtitudinal waterpark ? It's (surely) a no-brainer.

I ate there a few weeks back and the food was very good. I only had a pint of mild, but it was served to cold for my liking

I don't drink beer, had a glass of Merlot. I went for a meal with a couple of friends. Had a chat with the new landlord. He has no intention of altering the decor of the pub at all. There is a new menu, and the food is of good quality. I think it is indicative that all the staff bar one have stayed. He was due to retire anyway.

**Ahem** Or Gaelic! Meanwhile back on topic, how much is Rish!'s much-trumpeted increase in defence spending going to cost? How far would that go if it were invested in inland waterways? Would anyone like to do the calculation?

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