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It worked fine on my phone using Vivaldi but not with the Silk browser on my Fire tablet. I've now removed the link from my original post but unfortunately I can't do anything about the quoted links.

I wasn't, that wouldn't be RCD compliant in a 2018 boat. It says in the brochure it's a LPW4S. I was just commenting that it was not that common to see in 2018 boats. To the OP, the early versions of this engine had a 100hr oil change interval but I'm sure this engine will have 250hr intervals, although check the manual.

Are you George Muddie MP by any chance? From 1993 Select Committee papers -

The propshaft on Bee came from a boat jumble, dunno about the taper, the prop fits OK but the nut on the end is Whitworth. Must get a spare sometime 'cos the chances of finding another half way down the Burgundy canal is absolutely zero.

I have two of them on different boats for many years and they have proved to be 100% reliable. I have also recommended their use to sailing friends who have also fitted them, been delighted and saved a fortune. One of my friends who has one on his yacht is currently sailing around Iceland, and he isn't concerned about reliability! But if you want to pay original manufacturers prices then that's fine too.

I have not tried one but been told that the Protruar outboards are good. Brushless motor is nice. Biggest issue with MK motors is that fishing line gets past the seals and puts water in the casing then the brushes go. I use a Minn Kota on my electric canoe but I cut it in half and wired in a remote Minn Kota PWM control board for it. TPOS (Two Pieces Of String) steering. Its not all that easy to modify a normal MK outboard to use PWM and tiller steering because the control board wants to be mounted to a heatsink which in the case of the -MAX type MK outboards is built in to the top housing.

perhps we should ask @blackrose about overcharged LA batts 😀?

Horse and Jockey or the Star

Network Rail thanks (in the embedded video) passengers and freight uses for their patience. No mention of the impatient boater.

There last Thursday night, excellent curry and washed down by an excellent stout.. Lovely pub

I suppose the beauty of 7mm as opposed to 10mm is that it's easier to get penetration in the weld? Did you puddle weld it from above? I've not much welding experience but I find it fascinating.

This better then? I can improve it when it comes out of the water over the winter (once I find a covered workshop to rent).

Can't CRT revoke his licence and Section 8 him?

On our first visit to Fenny Compton in 1976, the winding hole was occupied by a pair of BW butties (moored using padlocks and chains), and we had to wind our 60' hire boats by sticking the bows slightly into the entrance of the nearby marina, ignoring the "no winding" notices.

Some years back, we booked a Viking Riverboat cruise which was affected by low water to the point that half of the cuise was by coach as water on the Maine canal was too low to take a loaded boat. Also , one day was taken up by changing boats as a lock was broken so pack your bags, they will be transferred to other boat and we all got on a coach , ended up with a verypoor lunch in a pub, then got taken to our new boat in Vienna. 30 mins later the boat we had left moored alongside us. Other friends have reported similar disorganised with Viking River Cruises. We were most disappointed particularly with a flight to Munich from Birmingham with a 4 1/2 hour chandeover at Schipol when there were 45 min direct flights.

Hi Tigerr. We have 33 hp in our nelson 18. It is considerable more than necessary. Can I suggest you go over to Nelson boats at Emsworth and speak with Steve Brenner , he is also the sec. of the Nelson boat owners club and a mine of information. And they still build the 18. I am sure they will advise you and give you a chance to have a look round. The draught is about 2 ft on ours end its pretty stable but if speed is what you need then a planing Hardy might be more suitable. They also seem good value, but the reason we went for the Nelson 18 was the beam at 6 ft 10 allows us to use it on the narrow canals, Just been up an the mon and brec with it, which I recommend, and that one is actually wide enough for a hardy anyway. Good luck in your search. Mick

And the time we turned up below the lower lock to find several boats in a queue below the lock, the lock full, no boats in sight above the lock and were told they were waiting for a boat to come from the other direction to save water.

Misusing the facilities was not acceptable. But providing facilities which speeded the passage of craft, and so encouraged traffic and increased the system capacity was. There were posts on here a year or two back about how the Grand Junction Canal Company introduced top gate paddles where previously that had been none in order to speed lock filling , to help compete with the railways. Whereas Perry Bar Locks were built with top ground paddle culverts which had multiple entries into the chamber, including into the bottom gate recesses, so that drawing the top paddles automatically closed the bottom gates, without needing the boatman to do so first.

As I read it, most of the data losses from scammers occurs by them gaining access to a database. The data there will be the same regardless of whether you paid by phone or online. In general, the CC companies' online processes seem as secure as shop based card machines (for example) But maybe I am guessing/hoping!