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I wouldn't agree that it isn't broken. The signage around the city centre is poor, but that's par for the course for CRT. If only some effort had gone into making the signage clearer around the network over the last few years, rather than replacing old confusing signs, with new confusing signs, with a different logo on. But in general, I'd agree that mooring in Birmingham as a visiting boat is ok, and certainly better than many other places. There's a good choice of spots to choose from. I still think moving the Sherborne services mooring to the towpath was a huge mistake. It's resulted in fewer visitor moorings, been problematic for Sherborne Wharf itself and has caused conflict with the neighbouring pub. It only made any sense while Earle and Toni owned the pub, but that particular foray was a bit of a disaster...

I had an email saying there is a VERY slight rethink and thats after about 4 days of comments, so if you don't like it, tell them,

Totally agree, this should also apply to the fuel boats - they should sell the gas / diesel / solid fuel at cost. The businesses selling fenders, fudge, cakes etc should not be allowed to make a profit The companies building boats, and repairing boats, should be non-profit making charities Boat painters should just do the work for the love of it Shops, Pubs and restaurants who provide food for boaters should be happy to sell at cost After all, they are all parasites & only get their business because of the canals.

To the OP Now as you can see i have done my own boat. The Buckingham 20,, to rebuild that cost maybe £6k inc a few needed tools. not much though. that was for a 20 footer to a not bad standard. Infact i sold that to a couple who still live that some 3 years ago now. Leviathon and Liz, well she is great but was hard work to understand at first the cost and how things work on boats so it took us some toing and froing to sort the boat out plan wise as even a 32 foot boat is small to get stuff in. It took a lot of money and time as it was a shell when i started on it. Those boats are better than a DC 32 though. well worth the extra effort and investment than a DC. if you want a figure i can help out to give you and idea on works costs for things to be done by yourself. to get somebody in. like i did for folk you can tripple and mor etha cost to get work done.

Did i hear my name being ,mentiond haha I rebuilt Leviathon aswell and my Buckingham yes chaps. I see its all as exciting as usual here.

Yes it’s very often because they come onto the forum, ask “rhetorical questions” ie questions to which they already think they know the answer, or at the very least know what answers they want in order to reinforce their opinion, and then get a sulk on when not everyone spits back the answers they want. And then their narcissistic attention-seeking gene kicks in and instead of just quietly going off and buying a tape recorder so they can be entertained hearing the sound of their own voice giving the answers they want, spend considerable effort telling everyone how unfair it all is, how everyone is wrong and they are right, stamping their feet moments before flouncing off in a dramatic exit stage left. Or at least I think that’s it because to be honest they are forgotten very shortly afterwards.

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I bought Sutton (the Big Northwich) in the early 80s, when she was called the Laidley Worm and was tied the top side of the bridge at Norbury. I got David Harris to do all the work on her, the long list of which I won't bore you with here. I then sold her to someone who became a friend through that sale and he is still the owner, some 37+ year later. He bought her from me as an unconverted boat (except for the slightly extended back cabin), and he then had Roger Farringdon put the full length cabin on her and Chris Lloyd fitted that out. My friend has recently told me he now wishes to sell her.

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Yes it did, and I appreciate the offer, but I've already explained that sex acts with gerbils just don't interest me

Then discontinue the hole saw due to supply issues and introduce a larger hole saw.

Yeah, Calor have a point. Boat builders that were stupid enough to churn out thousands of boats with gas locker sizes based around standard sizes are clearly to blame.

It is by far easier to undo the nuts marked C and just push the shaft away from the gearbox. I have the same setup and have done this when changing the gearbox/coupling plate on a few occasions. These are M10 slim style nyloc nuts ( I think - ie 17mm AF spanner, if 19mm then M12 ) so it is always best to fit new on re assembly to make sure the do not work loose. The bolts marked B should be very tight so they will not be easy to undo and should be torqued up evenly to achieve the correct grip through the taper sleeve which they secure. If not tightened correctly you can end up with a slipping drive and ruined prop shaft - best left untouched ! The A bolts just keep the plate in place that picks up the drive rotation should you be unlucky enough to shear the rubber bonded element from the centre hub. A safety design feature required for commercial usage I believe so that some form of drive always exists.

It is unfair that anyone who does not bring a boat onto CRT waterways should have to pay licence fee. It is stupid to attempt to justify payment on the basis that someone might do so but not be caught. It is even more stupid to suggest that that removing something that is unfair is unfair to others. Higgs might be a pain but I agree with him in principal.

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Don't panic, but if you have a battery with an internal short you should isolate it immediately - do not leave it on charge it can explode splattering battery acid all around the engine bay (or wherever the batteries are). I was woken in the middle of the night by the CO alarm - long story short - I was minutes away from a battery explosion, The battery had gone 'rugby ball shaped' and was so hot I could not touch it, the terminals were so hot that the spanner became too hot to hold, but by wrapping it in my shirt I got long enough to disconnect the links. The battery was still too hot to lift out of the box the next morning. If leaving your Mum 'boat sitting' make sure that the batteries cannot get any charge from Solar, a battery charger, or from the alternator. You really should get the battery links disconnected. before leaving the boat.

The NE bond relay only operates in inverter mode when there is no external ac input. If it did operate with “normal” mains input then this would routinely blow eg the shore bollard RCD.

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The issue is CRT have no money to do maintenance yet waste more money on fixing something that isn't broken to something that is! Totally normal for them.

The price looks good, but it's not clear from the data how (or if) these communicate with any charging system (e.g. alternator, inverter/charger, MPPT controllers) to stop charge at (say) 90% SoC and stop discharge at (say) 10% SoC, especially if there are multiple batteries in the system which need to be synchronised. If they do, great. If not, take care... 😉

I would also suggest that as, it seems, lithiums will accept as much electricity as any charge source can throw at it without limiting the charge like lead acids do, then the time to fully charged (or as full as you want) should be sooner given the same rated charger. So with lead acids and solar by noon the maximum charge is likely to have been reduced by the batteries, whereas with lithiums they will still be accepting whatever the solar can supply. I am not sure how much difference it makes, but I would expect it to be a lot for solar and engine charging. I acknowledge he won't get out more than he puts in, but lithiums should get the job done sooner, or to pit it another way, should make maximum use of the available charge whereas LAs make very poor us eof the charge. Looking at the posts we get about this sort of thing I don't think that is a sound statement. It seems the OP did/does, and all the scores of other who went before him. I doubt they make such an analogy, and if they do, they simply do not understand it.