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Assuming your gas locker contains 2 bottles then you're better off fitting a regulator with a manual changeover switch. First bottle expires, you switch over to the second bottle, take the first bottle out and buy a replacement, and so on. That way there no reason to run out. They're about 50 quid. Sorry if this doesn't really help. It's not a direct answer to your question so may or may not help, but like some of the other posts here it's just a suggestion.

Here we are doing the K&A the GWR rail line follows the canal much of the way, ironic that the canal does the hard work surveying the most level route between London & Bristol the the GWR comes along and follows that flattest route which is the canal (straight lining some of it) then puts the canal out of business by competing with it. Just a thought

Jen got there first with the new switch, your old switch should be :- 1 from battery +; single Brown ? cable with fully insulated cover, large spade ? 2 Key switched 12v out; the twin small spades with three (?) white cables should go to the warning lights and gauges 3 Glow plugs; multiple red wires with yellow crimp 4 Starter motor; the other one (its hidden behind the others) fully insulated cover, cable might be white with a red tracer though there are variations, with only four terminals this should be right springy

I discovered long ago that the cap off a cassette is a close fit down a 4" drain. The sani station at Cropredy suffered a blockage by one of these. Difficult to find, they pivot in the pipe causing an intermittent blockage. Even more difficult to remove. Maybe this is the "Banbury Bung"?

Only 3 deep on the Walsall

You wouldn’t name a ship made of aluminium after a city famous for it’s steel.

The Great Ouse Boating Association have recently updated their website, and as part of that I have contributed a section setting out various bits of advice that might be useful for people thinking of visiting these waterways. Version 1 is now published, and I am happy to receive any comments/suggestions, either here or via the email address at the top of the page. I should say I don't want to add too much to the length. https://goba.org.uk/a-guide-for-visitors-to-the-east/

Thank you Glad I didn't bother? Maybe I should have made a video of my boat being painted, paying particular attention to the hours after the paint has been applied?

If yogurt pot in the way and owner aboard ask if they mind you going inside rather than outside most prefer it.

The GWR bought up the Thames & Severn to stop the Midland railway buying it and using the bed and Sapperton Tunnel as a rival route to theirs from Stroud to Cirencester.

For routine use with no or minimal signs of bug the Complete. For a shock treatment for known bug the Treatement. Use of such things should not remove the need for regular "bottom of tank draining".

I'm possibly causing some confusion by writing these posts a bit after the event, now safely at Keadby having broken the journey by staying overnight at W Stockwith Thanks for the tips though. I had the chance to chat to the lockie before leaving and asked about trying to arrive at W Stockwith for high tide/slack water (coming from Torksey) and he was doubtful, it would involve pushing the incoming flood perhaps for some time, or going past at low water to turn at some point and come back up with the flood? In the end turning into both locks wasn't as bad as I'd thought and I'd probably rather do it this way again than spending longer on the river pushing flows at high revs. Light winds and no coaster moored at Keadby definitely helped too

I had a go with a sledgehammer on a piece of their 'aluminium' at a Sea Otter trade stand, couldn't even mark it, very tough, aluminium conjures up images of soft pliable metal, couldn't be further from the truth, it's marine alloy. They offered to build me a 60' nb shell by constructing it diagonally across their workshop (too expensive - £30k in 2003) reckoned they could just squeeze it in, so maybe that's why they didn't build them any longer?

How incredibly sad. There is such a tragedy in someone's life that is the back story to this. My heart goes out to everyone involved including the emergency services who have to deal with these horrible situations.

If you are looking for solid brass bar and turned fittings, they do cost. Avoid brass plated tube, its rubbish. I found the best offer was Thorne Marine in Warrington, despite them buying in from Aquafax, there discount beat all others' prices to me.

Big cork anyone to bung up the vent? Seems odd to specify such a short hose when from what I have seen the main non-weekend and off peak boat movements are by narrowboat with most being far longer than 7 metres so depending upon how the water point moorings are arranged and other boats may well need a longer hose just to reach the filler. They would not be trying to discourage narrowboats would they?