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No, you're making the assumption Ivan has the BMV wired to the alternator which is not true, so it cant go the wrong way round. Reversing the shunt will mean the electrons are going the wrong way and with only solar attached that means they will head in that direction and the panels will emit light rather than absorb them. This could cause problems at night if the boat next door does not like artificial light. Boat security at night should be improved though. Clever! It is pretty difficult to connect the BMV 712 shunt the wrong way round. The destruction book is quite explicit in what to do and is not confusing in any way. Ivan must be more of a muppet than me if he got it the wrong way round. Come on Ivan. Own up!

I have just been having a chat with the lovely couple that we used to moor next to at Hatherton Marina. Their current boat is called Baker's Dozen (Their surname is Baker). Ron built the boat himself. Before he retired his foundry used to bend the metal to supply the bow and stern sections for Les Allen boats and he has memories going back to childhood of the canals in the black country as his grandfather set up a foundry (I think in the mid 40's?) next to one of the inclined planes where coal was delivered by boat The previous boat he built in 1976 and it was called Baker's Boy. He mentioned to me that he would love to see a photo of his old boat again. He said it was around 35' long and they spent a lot of time boating on it with their two young children. They both have such fond memories of their times boating. He said the last he heard of his old boat it was owned by quite an elderly lady whomoored it on The Stratford Canal and it was called "Jamie" He has been trying to find a photo that might have the CRT registration number on it but without any joy. I can find this on CanalplanAC - I can't be certain that is the correct vessel and I am not certain I have got all the details as correct as I would like. I now it is a long shot but does anyone know if this boat might still be around somewhere or perhaps have a photo of it at all? Please do not put any current owner in a compromised position by posting details of it's current location on here. I would just love to try and bring a smile to dear old Ron's face by letting him know his boat is still around. He is struggling in lock down having to chop logs in the garden (even though he no longer has a stove to burn them in) He will be 82 next month and seeing as we can't share a curry with them to celebrate perhaps I can get some information on his old boat for him?

The owner occupier can take responsibility for her own safety in her home. The renter has to depend on somebody else. and as we all know, that somebody else might not care quite as much if the safety measures hit him in the pocket. Also, you can't sue yourself, but you can sue a landlord. They? They? Now who is choosing the easy target?

It is worse than that. If the shunt is connected the wrong way round it will make the engine run backwards too. The only solution is to swap the gear control cable on to the other side of the morse control lever so ahead becomes ahead again and astern astern. Going for an eight hour cruise will kill your batteries irretrievably. ? Jen

Looks the shunt is wired wrong way round so it thinks the discharge is a charge. I don’t have a BMV but I would normally expect a discharge of 0.8A to be shown as -0.8A. And that would explain why the SoC isn’t dropping and infinite time remaining. i expect if you now run the engine, it will start to show AH consumed and SoC decreasing.

More from Ownerships Show Braunston Marina February 2007. It snowed the days afterwards. Also 2009 was snowy.

Not at all... Good job you asked the question, and good job there are enough people here for one to come up with the most unlikely, (or likely), answer. Unless you didn't RTFM, it's obviously not as explicit as Bob suggests

Stubbing Wharf on the Rochdale Canal, seen from the hillside below Hell Hole Rocks And closer up.

River Yonne. Sharing lock with 80m and the dreaded sloping sides. Ok going down but not so good uphill

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This antenna is very good and popular. I've used it for several years and gives a signal even in the weakest of areas. https://www.solwise.co.uk/4g-antenna-omni-xpol-a0001.html I've currently got it connected to a Huawei B310s-22 router which came unlocked with a Three Homefi deal a couple of years ago. It has a 12V input, so I am able to power it directly from the boat 12V supply. It has two antenna sockets, both of which are connected to the two tails from the antenna. Cancelled the Three deal a few weeks ago, as I got an unlimited data sim with our Virgin Media TV/Phone/Broadband deal. I would make sure you can power the router you buy from your 12V supply.... or you will have to faff about with inverter supply, (which may, or may not, matter to you ).

Not if you wrax it up REALLY TIGHT with a BIG HAMMER!

Good job I am not competing then.......

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I had the same problem a few years ago, apparently it's fairly common when bikes aren't used for a few months at a time, you have enough fuel in the carb to run it for about 30 seconds.......... the needle float which pumps / goes up and down gets sticky with fuel when not used. It basically let's a very small amount of fuel through after you turn it off, then if you go back to it in say 6 hours,....... it will start again but cut out again after another 30 seconds. Take your carb off give it a clean and reassemble. It worked for me.

I was saying to SWMBO over a glass two yesterday - just think how different our world would be were it not for 4 young Americans (there's a song title in there somewhere) Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg! So much part of life now but lockdown makes you wonder do we really need any of it ..............we value our local greengrocer and local butcher far more ..............

Those Ormelites still have style and character. After this thread came up I asked my dad how much he paid for their first cabin boat (1976). It was £350 for a bare glassfibre moulding for a 16' cabin cruiser, like a tiny Shetland, and he fitted it out, windows, canopy etc. We hankered after a Norman, they were built nearby and the factory was amazing as a kid, but a bit too far out of price range. He had a series of boats after that but sold his NB two years ago. To get back on the canal, I started back over last year with a 1970s Shetland project that cost less than the boat in '76, but it makes me remember the fun that can be had with little boats. Another thing that I used to enjoy with rose tinted glasses was the sheer variety of boats on the canal we were on. All kinds of GRP cruisers, old converted boats, narrowboats, lovely wooden craft. A family at New Mills had a 15' old lake boat that had an Amazing Spaces style cabin he'd built on the top. Half a dozen of them would go off in it for a holiday. We had something similar after the 16' er. It was a 20' GRP hull with a plywood top on it narrowboat style, the Dawncraft 25 was next and seemed like sheer luxury. Four of us in there for three week summer holidays. We only ever actually hired once in the mid 80s, from Viking Afloat, 56' Sigurd, as we had my grandad that year aswell, and that was like how the other half lived. Now I think most Joe Public would turn their nose up at the idea of a holiday in a Dawncraft or Ormelite, in the same way that most people want a boutique hotel or festival glamping but wouldn't be seen dead in a ridge tent on a farmer's field.

Call me old fashioned, but my Tik-Tok appliance simply shows the time.

We are in a national and global event the like of which we have not really seen before, and the story is still unfolding. Anybody who makes any predictions is just guessing. I can only offer a bit of wisdom here, if you want to do something then just do it, don't waste away your life waiting for prices to rise, prices to fall, or for some other event outside of your control to occur. .................Dave