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And your second.

Yes lol maths not my strong point🤣

Not if u draw 2ft 10. DAMHIK!

You are welcome, have your first greenie for replying.

Which could account for the large number of boat children?

Thank you K I B I will go through your list and get back to you nice to have someone with knowledge to advise me

You need to be certain that all the air is out of the circulation pipes when you refill else the Webasto will overheat and shut down. Explore the possibility of blowing all the water back out of the radiator with a bike pump in the bleed nipple hole, closing both radiator valves when it is emptyish to avoid draining down. You will need to be sure that the expansion/fill tank doesn't overflow.

All good. Shallow in places as usual but very passable.

3 ft is correct for the actual bedhole width. You get a couple of extra inches between the frames over most of the bed. A 3ft bed isn't actually that bad for a couple - the wife and I regularly sleep in one. GUCCC drawing of a Royalty boat cabin here, but the dimensions are much the same for any back cabin. There are a couple of similar plans on the CRT Archive, but the online images aren't good enough to read the dimensions, but you could ask to see the originals. https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/MAPSPLANSONE361 https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/MAPSPLANSONE400

I don’t think a 3ft wide bed in a motor boat cabin is unusual in fact I’ve come across a 2ft 10” one. They were rarely occupied by two adults who would have chosen the more commodious butty with a 3ft 6in to sleep on. Of course the other limitation is the length between the lining boards on a wooden boat - 5ft 6ins if you’re lucky! in Tom Chaplin’s A Short History of the Narrow Boat there is a scan of a few pages of Frank Nurser’s notebook which gives the “bed place” as 2ft 9ins. Paul

Could be a small vole, or baby rat? Was it going clockwise or anticlockwise? If anticlockwise, its from Australia.

Welcome to the forum, indent for a fireproof suite of armour. If you want advice, here goes. First off, double check the prop, you could have something nasty on it. That would account for the vibration. Is there oil in the gearbox? Is it totally quiet out of gear? Is it the drive plate between the engine and the gearbox breaking up? There is no clutch there. TMC boxes usually whine even when new but not grind. Use a listening stick between your ear and various parts of the gearbox, engine, bell housing etc. to locate the source of the noise. Have you recently had something hard hit the prop? Could it be bent or the shaft bent or the engine mountings torn off? Is the engine running on all 4 cylinders? When and how did this start? Was anything altered just before?

Most probably damselflies -- we get lots of them around the pond here...

No sign of an otter but have been watching dragon flies (? The electric blue ones ) along side the canal. I met a dog walker along side the new bit in water ( but not navigable) watching what looked like a very small mouse swimming round on circles. We had no idea what it was - too small for a vole.

Q. How many legs does an otter have? A. Six.....Two at the back and Fore at the front. Otter lotta people know that.

There was an obstruction in the suction side pipework, and by swapping the pipes over it has been blown back out of the inlet.