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Careful now. You might be making others start to think about one. At least you didn't mention how much longer the water tank lasts when you aren't flushing half of it into the black tank ...

Did it pass the BSS OK ?

Today in 1985 we wrapped up warm and took Crane from Watford gap to Braunston. We had a potential buyer and he had a surveyor lined up. Once we got round Norton junction the ice on the summit was fairly strong but at least it’s straight, it turns that cause problems.

by selling a boat not for use in London

Since we can't sit in pubs arguing about something over a beer and banging the table, this is an inferior substitute... ?

Or conversely a 33% increase in fuel consumption and emissions - a whole world problem.

They will have, Key Diesels are very quick at paint recons. Touch neither even in desperation, you could regret it. Just my and many other clients opinion.

my drinking group always said that 6X was a beer that ‘didn’t travel well’. We were repeating this whilst drinking pints of not too great 6X once except that we were in the brewery tap in Devizes!

It was fitted to Bob's physique, it's an fairly intrusive process but it is exactly suited and designed to suit Bob's, err measurements. I have heard this particular model was expensive due to all the extra fiberglass required to get a snug fit.

Give him a few years and he'll come round. He is now installing a diesel genny so he can move his solar powered boat more ...

A catastrophe:

What about the sidecarp?

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Martyn, the government is coming under increasing pressure to phase out fossil fuels. It doesn't take a genius to work out that they may well go after the easy targets first - one of which would be leisure boats. As almost all leisure boats get their fuel from marinas and boat yards it would be very easy for non-commercial purchase of marine fuel to be taxed at a higher rate. I'm not saying it will happen - I know nothing - but I can easily see that it might, and probably at some point will. Regardless, there is already increasing societal pressure to reduce carbon emissions. And then there's diesel particulates from old diesel engines... The lung damage caused by pollution and the effect it has on life expectancy is now known and (mostly) accepted. The problem won't go away on its own. And in my humble opinion, we should all take our fair share of responsibility for it and take mitigating action if and/or when we can.

Yes, and catalytic converters, DPFs, AdBlue and turbos will increase purchase and running costs. Plus with fossil fuels being increasingly demonised pressure will grow on the government to increase fuel tax to encourage people to switch to cleaner and/or renewable sources of energy for everything including boat propulsion. And boat owners would be a soft target if the government wanted to particularly increase taxes on non-essential use of fossil fuels. On a different note, is anyone aware of the new solar panels coming in a year or two? Currently approx 20% of the sun's energy can be converted to electricity with a photovoltaic solar panel in real-world conditions. The new panels are said to be approx 30% efficient - again in real-world conditions (approx 40% in a lab, apparently). I understand several PV manufacturers are in early production planning stages. I don't like gin. I like wine.

And in the winter the milk froze and pushed to tops off, and when not frozen the Tits made holes in the foil. The school used to save the foils to 'buy a blind dog' (never understood why someone would buy a blind-dog in preference to one that could see). Tuck shop has Smiths crisps with a blue-paper twist of salt in the botttom.

10p!! we didnt have any of that funny money when I was a kid.

Me too. Me raising my kids, too. And, oddly enough, there are plenty of crappy bits of towns where it is still exactly the same, except with an indoor toilet, though it might well be shared. There's a lot of substandard, small, cold and damp rentals - my daughter lived in one with two kids which cost a thousand quid in fees for her to get a key. Don't make the mistake of thinking poverty has gone away just because we've gone away from it.

I've certainly seen plenty of references to the bows of historic boats having newly built sterns attached and leisure cabins built over the top, but isn't the as-described arrangement involving someone in the 2000s attaching the bow of a historic boat to the majority of an existing ~25 year old leisure boat a bit more unusual?

No reason why industrial generators should be more efficient. Change is slow in the critical power industry because reliability is paramount. As I said if you dont beliwve the 0.3 litres per kWh call a big generator company. Most make generators in the range of 10-2000kVA. Yes the companies you mention are small compared to the likes of Cummins and Mitsubishi.

My measurements were on commercial standby generators, mainly 1500 rpm whizz bangs, but quite a few 1000 rpm, 750 and 500rpm sets. No reason to think any generator would give different results unless powered by a modern common rail diesel engine.

Fits in with the real life diesel generator (10-1000kVA) fuel consumption measurements i mentioned in post #1036.

I dont know how ive survived over thirty years without one!! must dash out and buy some bin liners and start crapping in a bucket and pissing in a potty and emptying it overboard in the morning

Have you noticed it's always other people doing it? It's as odd as everyone except oneself breaking the speed limit, littering or not picking up after their dog. Or, in our cases, overstaying, running gennies at the wrong time, etc etc. If only other people would behave properly, life would be so much better.

This lasted about 20 years with a lot of patching up towards the end (and we added a glass fibre cover on the flat bit), then another 10 years with the canvas added keeping the rain out as the woodwork got softer and more porous - perhaps you could keep yours going for a while with similar canvas.

Are you referring to possible sloshing action, or do you find the river trips scary?