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Oh dear he's showing off his ginormous sparkly clean engine again. If it goes wrong there's an spare on the other side.....

We have just had a trip to the Lincolnshire coast with Syd for his birthday. We can't remember a time we have seen the ground quite so sodden and all of the ditches and watercourses so full. There is still plenty of water to head into the rivers. The Trent was on the verge of shutting Dunham Bridge creeping across the field and to the low point where it floods the road. The Fossdyke was also high. It needs to stop raining!

Maybe I can pop in for a coke/pepsi on the way through seeing as I'll be driving past

Not rods, those are the dip tubes. It's a view that few people will see, however long they own their boat, as it's behind a welded steel bulkhead. To make it clearer, here's a view of it fixed in place (minus the top plate of course)

or perhaps a retired ponent. ...................... coat

He was on the cusp, just like he is on the cusp of becoming a leaver?

What a difference a month makes.

He can dream on, I am still awaiting my payment for appearing in The Flower of Gloster more than 50 years ago. Admittedly I only appear for about four seconds, but it took longer than that to film.

I believe it was the Environment Agency and we also have Middle Level Navigations near us too just past Downham market. I live in a strange area in which the following We have a town called Thetford not the Toilet. We live in Norfolk but not part of the Norfolk Boards We have a very tiny Waterways called Middle Level Navigation's. There is a town called Outwell and a camping website called Outwell which sells Thetford toilets No worries the first time I heard about the toilet I cracked up laughing.

Cannot comment on Todbrook, but canal engineers were adept at adopting/adapting existing infrastructure to met their needs. On the Chesterfield Canal, Jame Brindley adapted existing watercourses. One such being the feeder to the ornamental ponds at Shireoak Hall, which he used as theTurnerwood feeder. He also used the existing millpond at Pebley Mill and built a new dam wall to create Pebley Reservoir. Incidentally Pebley is the oldest C&RT reservoir still in service and doing its original job.

That was my initial thought. The guy was adamant it wasn't.

Engine is purring away happily with her new fuel filter. Thanks again for the help and advice. I'm still not 100% sure I'm doing the bleeding correctly, I get plenty of fuel out of the bleed nut on top of the fuel filter, but no matter how much I pump the lever I don't seem to get any from the nuts on the injectors. Should I be pumping with all nuts loosened or just one at a time? I tried both ways and couldn't get any fuel, however when I tightened up the nuts again the one injector was a bit wet with diesel. So perhaps I just couldn't see where it was bleeding out.

I certainly didn't want to bodge it Messing around with the solder was so unbelievably frustrating that I was very glad I knew myself well enough to have bought some of the gunk as a backup plan. Good bodge so far.

The tubes are the take off to engine and return diesel from the spill rails (?) possibly temp sealed during fitting/welding to stop crud getting in.

I think it would help if you could describe it in detail. I see 4 rods on a flat piece of metal.

The big pro has to be that you dont overstress you alternator. Say your Li's are half full, you alternator will be working flat out so may burn itself out if you do this for any length of time and it wont turn off when your Li's get full. If you use the Alt/LA/inverter, then the Li will take the power from the inverter/charger at the rate it wants, the LA's will power the inverter and the alternator will charge the LA's as if they are in bulk. When the Li's get to full, the inverter/charger will back off - IF you can set it to the voltage you need - Richard can as he has a programmable Sterling - so then the alternator will cut back in current as the LA's demand....but still 14.4V to keep the LA's topped up. Negatives? There could be an issue if the inverter/charger puts a lot more current into the Li bank than the alternator is putting into the LA's. In that case the LAs will drop in SoC as the Li's increase in SoC. The beauty of using LAs with Li's is that the LAs are alway near full as you dont drop the voltage below 12.7V. If they drop to 50% then you are going to need 14.4V to get the LAs back to full which you may not have if you then stop the engine. Yes, the Li's will charge the LAs back up to full but only at 13.3V or less. The thing is though that most(?) inverter/chargers are programmable so you should be able to set the charge current similar to the LA charge current. A lot here will depend on the capacity of the LA vs capacity of the Li. This is going to open up a huge can of worms - as Nick criticised my system back in March - saying I needed 14.4V to keep the LA's in good shape. 6 months on, my LAs are in the same shape as life before Li's despite only being charged at 13.7V max - as I doubt they were ever discharged below 95%. There is a logical argument for this which is outside your rules for a response ? so I wont bother outlining it.....but you will need 14.4V to charge LAs if they go down to 50% SoC. What I am not sure about is what happens if your LA bank is 90% charged and you take 50A out with the inverter, what current is you alternator controller give? I've been using an AtoB with my LAs so cant talk about 'normal'charging of LAs. Maybe sulphation is the big downside if the LAs go down to 50% or another downside is lower charging rates from the alternator than if the alternator was directly connected to the Li bank. Need also to think about the wiring so you isolate the Li's from the alternator yet want to have your domestics are fed from the Li's. Someone needs to try it and keep a close eye on SoC of the LA's.

she's so right. Many of the GRP cruisers on the Thames suffer from extreme overhang and curvature at the bow (hence the 2ft diameter ball fenders hanging down like some deformity that is unmentionable on this forum) with the result that the lettering of the compulsory boat name never looks quite right. I suspect that is because the signwriting tradition is considered obsolete by all who buy and sell such bow and stern thrusted obscenities, and the sales agents employ redundant car salesmen to stick on vinyl letters in their tea break.

And don't forget to turn the fuel shut off back on...

As has already been said (a number of times) you have run out of fuel. The pick-up pipes in the tank are normally at least 1" above the bottom of the tank to avoid picking up '100s of years' of muck sludge and water (very few folk actually give their tank a yearly drain and steam clean). You may well have also sucked up some 'disturbed' muck from the bottom so I'd suggest that you do a full filter change as well. Put fresh fuel in, leave it a few hours for the muck to settle, (pouring fresh diesel will disturb the sediment in the bottom of the tank) put in new filters, bleed and start the engine. Edit to add : As an interim 'trial', disconnect your fuel pipe from the engine, run a rubber pipe from a Jerry can (full of diesel) and connect it to the engine (past the filters) Start engine. If the engine runs then fuel was the problem

I know it's late and I'm probably not at my brightest but this is quite difficult to understand. My confusion starts with "both the last three" but does not end there!?

Not cheeky at all Richard I will WhatsApp or mail it to you when I get back off holiday you have seen the video of these batteries being checked it's that easy to make the lead, I have spare plugs so can send you one as well. When you install them connect the leads together as its easier to check them

House them.

The residents of Fishlake and parts of Doncaster are suffering badly and one of the criticisms is that with better flood defences protecting parts of Sheffield, they got it worse. If CRT had immediately opened the sluices at Worksop then parts of say Retford and Misterton would have found themselves in the same situation.

Thank you very much . The marina is probably only half full and as no one if there for enquiries and or to answer phones it’s looking like moorers are not required as there isn’t a way of obtaining one . The pontoons are in a poor state of disrepair-treacherous in some places so maybe it’s being run down . I’ll contact Companies House and keep my fingers crossed . I’m worn out with it all as I’ve been trying all contact since end of August . If I’ve managed to stop other people parting with their funds something good will have come out of it .

It certainly would be for me, assuming I wanted to be in a marina this place sounds good to me. Occasionaly I pop into Willington to use the swindlers and lovely though it is the idea of being there is just not for me

We had a chap come past this evening from Whilton......under a bet to see how far he could get to London....

Second coating existing work is easier for a novice than starting from scratch, but the techniques required to use a lettering brush successfully need lots of practice and aren’t acquired in a few moments. The cabin side is a very public space , as I know only too well.....

Dave Moore of this parish, very good and not over expensive. The only problem is he is based in the West Midlands, and I am not sure how far he will travel. Personally I would not entertain painting a name on a boat, with or without stensils. I have done a bit of amateur sign writing in the past, but it is not easy, and a boat moves about whilst you are doing it, which is not helpful.