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Thats because I reply when I read something, not several pages later.

That's fair and your experience - but it does depends on your mooring type and cost. My (leisure) mooring is £3500 pa (so about the same as 'your' £350/month flat all inclusive) and I have to pay gas, electric on top, £800+ for the boat licence, £200 for insurance, 1/4 of the BSS, etc etc. My No2 Son has a rented (very small) cottage on the South Coast and is paying £1200 per month - residential moorings in London regularly make £15,000 pa at auction. The running costs of a boat far exceed that of a rented flat - get a plumbing leak and the landlord pays for the repairs, appliances 'blow up' and the Landlord replaces. The same happens with a boat and YOU have to pay. I'd suggest that it is no cheaper to live (legally) on a boat on a mooring than a flat in a similar area. CCing is not possible for many people who need to be in a restricted area for work / school / hospitals etc, but for those who can, there may be a saving in not paying for a mooring, but at what 'offset cost' of additional fuel, additional hours on the engine, additional servicing costs etc.

The glorious Mosel once again: the hill at Cochem, the path through the forest to Burg Eltz and the castle itself, owned by the same family since the 12th Century (33 generations) Roger Pilkington in his Small Boat series goes on at length about this castle, how it was never successfully attacked and how remote it is. When we got there we found it jam-packed with middle-aged German women, moving like battle-cruisers in the bar-room with giant jars of lager. It was strong stuff too. We only had one glass each, but the walk back was strange. And those woods are spooky

With great respect, I am not sure that anyone will respond positively unless at least you give some details about yourself and your experience of boats. You are asking a lot for someone to trust a total stranger to live on your boat without a lot more knowledge of their background and knowledge of boats. Good luck in your search, however, and welcome to the forum. Howard

. . . because the feed for the heater is gravity fed. The diesel can either be pumped up from the main tank to a smallish feed tank, as I outlined, or the OP can construct a new tank at the front of the boat to allow for the required eight inch head of diesel.

All together now - "The Earth is an Oblate Spheroid"? Howard

I've seen this said a fair bit on this forum (I'm not picking you out specifically Alan) and either you've been out of the flat/house rental/buying game for do long you've lost track of costs...but it is significantly cheaper living on a boat. Cheapest bedsit (inc council tax/elec/etc) is in my area £350p/m, my mooring/gas/pump out comes to £200p/m. Flats or houses with council tax would easily take me over 100% costs of boat living, obviously taking into account I'm registered somewhere else. There's the odd cost of blacking and bsc every 4 years or so...but it is still cheaper. Don't get me wrong, it's very different to regular living. You must be happy with elec restrictions and put up with the cold for an hour till your stove has got going, but it's cheaper without a doubt!

On a previous boat I had a small tank which was fed by a semi rotary pump from the main 500l diesel l tank. I was able therefore to top it up when required. Because the feeder tank was less than 27 litres I had no trouble with the BSS and the exceptions mentioned above. I should have explained this in my previous post.

When I was building data centres in London, the local authority fire officer would inspect each data hall to ensure all holes had been filled with vermiculite and intumescent sealant. Without his sign off the data hall couldnt be used.

On this day in 2019 Br 82 T&M. And the steps at Sandon Lock (next to Br83)

On this day in 2012 Rochdale summit Compare #2523 #2524 (1985) #2067 (2007)

Thanks for looking. I fitted the starter, giving close attention to the pinion-flywheel gap, fully charged the battery, and it works. Thanks everyone for your help. I had to get it working for our 50th anniversary (me + car) on Tuesday. We had a little celebration with my chum who was celebrating 60 years with his. Champagne and sandwiches in the garage ?

The L&LC Co never numbered its bridges, and this was done by British Waterways circa 1965 when there was a national programme to identify those bridges BW was responsible for. These were given a number, with those they were not responsible for were given the number of the previous BW bridge plus a letter. Thus, all railway bridges, motorway bridges, and those road bridges rebuilt to take larger loads by local authorities have a letter after the number, with those in Liverpool just having a letter as there is no previous BW/CRT responsibility bridge before Bootle. In places, where there are several non-CRT bridges, they have an A, B, C suffix, but the M61 motorway bridge came between 78 and 78A, so they must have thought 78AA more appropriate than 78B. The locks on the L&LC were numbered at around the same time as the bridges, but I suspect this was done by a different engineering department. Hence bridges are numbered from Liverpool to Leeds, while locks are numbered from Leeds to Liverpool.

Don't forget that any diesel tank must have a 'spill deflector' so that when refilling any spillage must go overboard, and also remember that you will need a breather vent with an anti-spark/flash fitting. Without both of those it is a BSS failure. Don't just put 'any old steel tank' in there - it should also be pressure tested and marked as passing but the BSS examiner probably won't look for that. Do not use a galvanised tank as the Sulphur in Diesel reacts with the Zinc galvanising and produces Zinc-Sulphate which is a 'jelly like substance that will block up your pipes and pumps.

Oxymoron Never yet been achieved - and we were suppliers to PSA !

However, there isn't an awful lot of veneer to be able to rub down. You might go through the veneer, before getting rid of the dark - depending on how it was created in the first place, and how deep it goes.

My suspicion too. The staining is not concentrated directly above the heat grilles - there are peaks between them.

Have to say that looks more like damp but quite why or how is a bit of a puzzle. I wonder if warm air holding more moisture = more humidity and damp wood? I should think the insulation is spray foam and nothing to worry about but it is odd. Incidentally and as a personal view the quality of the insulation would very important indeed if I was looking at a boat to buy.

I was on the second share boat that Cuthound mentions just a couple of weeks ago. It's a Beta 43 engine fitted 6/7 years ago and has just gone over 6,000 hours. It runs fine with no issues, but is serviced regularly. Hopefully, it has many years of life to come.

and I would dispute the red bit. First of all for optimum battery life, which is an individuals choice of the combination of effort, time, and battery life, as long as you do not want the absolute maximum battery life you only need to be on top of it, as you call it,most of the time. Once the ammeter and voltmeter are installed it is just a question of daily routine and daily routine is part of everyday life. There are admittedly a number of people who are incapable of much in the way of learning or sticking to a daily routine but they are vastly in the minority so if people can't follow the advice @WotEver has pinned at the top of the maintenance section and similar advice else where it is just down to their unwillingness to learn or laziness. You might just as well say our engines need automatic oil & coolant top up systems and automatic prop clearers because they don't want to spend too much time and effort on it. Normal people look to those things a everyday routine. The whole electronic gizmo thing seems to me to be driven by the need to sell product and thus is leads to the marketing over promising to the extent that in any other walk of life lies are told. Examples are the state of charge reading on amp hour counting gauges, so called five stage battery chargers and is typified by the OP's display at the start of this topic. I note he has not returned to tell us why his state of charge reading is correct. Unless you are fault finding apart from the top row (excluding state of charge) are just eye candy and of little use day to day hour to hour, many are just showing the same basic information but in a different form. Just how vital is it to know historically the time a heavy load was applied to the batteries? Its the same with cars where electronics are employed to allow manufacturers to apparently add value for little extra cost.

Your knowledge of the canal is way better than mine, I had no experience of the canal until we looked at the 'company for sale' (in the early 2000's) when research showed few narrowboats and a preponderance of 'wider' boats that were primarily in the hire fleets. Maybe my views of the boats on the Mon & Brec were incorrect. The company was still for sale after the big-breach and they sent me their accounts to show that they had been given compensation to the previous years profit level. we decided not to go ahead as structural reports made very gloomy reading as to the future for the canal. We then looked at Whixhall marina, (where our boat was kept and started negotiation with the owners, but then BWML over-bid on our price, - we then were going to look at a marina for sale at Earith but it sold before we could get there. Gave up on trying to buy a 'waterways business' and did something else instead.

Thank you for explaining about the electricity, I use a gaming PC alot & am unsure of the amps it draws, how would I find out? I understand about the "closeness" of other boats but still prefer that to something like this

Never mind these new fangled metre things... a Nautical mile is, and will always be 6080 feet, otherwise I'll get lost! Howard

I’m with Roland on this one, I suspect we learned from similar sources. Yes, in the 20 years I had Resolute I strove to maintain high standards....paintwork clean, brasses bright and decorative ropework white. While many passed positive comments on the boat, the ones I cherished most came from the few ex working boaters who understood what I was trying to do. I’ll leave it here, Mount my dinosaur and ride off.....

We've shared locks with a few snobs, a retired army general type, some little property tycoons, a multi-millionaire, ready to sink springers, and a bloke on a plastic cruiser who didn't even have a windlass (one of our best trips ever, we spent several days doing a river together), as long as they are real boaters we will likely find something in common. ................Dave

Ther's nothing against having a shiny boat- doesn't it just show pride in ownership? It would be interesting to hear more details., because you seem to have reacted strongly to his question so had something else happened to bring on his bad attitude? Howard