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I did, for one of them. ☹️

I used work overlooking a Watneys pub. The Red Barrel was literally delivered by tanker. Says it all.

Coastal marina and words like "back", "park" and "nose"............ Please .

I know a number of Rival 38s were fitted with the engine. Perhaps looking to the offshore forums would help. (Updated Practical Boat Owner )

How sad. Said in jest😀😀 That's what I had on my BMC 1.8 and it gave me occasional issues over the years. My fall back option was to have a suitably sized spanner (injector high pressure nut). To stop engine ,loosen nuts, let the engine stall and sort the problem out later. (worked for me)😇

As was I. However, over the next year it worked out I saved after which I gave up caring 😇

You're a braver man than I, Ganger Din.! I speak from experience. I bought one at the Inland Waterways Festival at Beale Park 20 ? years ago for £1400. Sold it 30 miles and some years later for about £300. Tiny wheels that fell into any size hole and as unstable as a Roundtrees jelly. A chauffeur driven Roller would have been an infinitely better idea, unfortunately it was that damned beer tent offering 20+ types of real ale that was to blame Bit difficult to hide the multi thousand £ boat moored on the bank. Sometimes you can be too risk averse

We obviously had a different 12" model 'cos the rotary switch gave access to 2 channels 1=BBC and 9= ITV.

They tend to be used in after market in-line fuseholders Our second TV was a 12" Bush (with a chunky rotary channel change on the righthand side). To be fair, in early days screens were measured laterally rather than diagonally.

That's exactly how my dad kept our television going when, with friends and neighbours gathered around, it failed on Coronation Day. Mind you, it was the Queens coronation and the television a 9" screen Pye resplendent in a wooden cabinet. Last time I went the Imperial War Museum had one as part of a display.

Define 'doers'

Assuming that the new cable is a similar length to the old one everything points to faulty re-assembley following it's 'service'

Not unless they were running coach (or Rolls Royce) trips from Eton and Harrow.

But at some stage you will need to buy the whiskey, to say nothing about food.

I had a cocooned diesel generator within a cockpit locker for 24 of the 28 years I owned Vital Spark. (2 virtually identical Pugaros' ). Throughout that time the fuel system within the cocoon was as factory fitted. Not one examiner ever even looked inside the cocoon.

Oh Dear, That's my Council Tax up even more. Perhaps even more seriously more potholes in local roads and a further cutbacks of already reduced services.

A long time ago but I had my 55' shell craned IN at Harefield many years ago. It was done at the slipway not the Wharf.

I had a " proper sea toilet " and a single vent of about 22 mm dia in my L shaped holding tank for 28 years. Never had a smell inside the boat and didn't ever use any form of chemical. Vent was below the gunwhale.

I applied the same logic when I used scrabble under our cars years ago. MOTs always seemed to fall due in the winter when it was cold, wet and miserable. One year I had a lightbulb moment and booked them both in for tests in the middle of the summer. Mysteriously, reliability seemed to improve significantly.😇 (before I get inundated by comments along the lines of "you should have bought an XYZ model" I'm talking about an era when 50K miles was good for an engine and Volkswagen sold their NEW cars with a 6 month, 6,000 mile warranty.)

No. Never put a pump in the engine bilge.

Could be he's just treating your original comments with a degree of common sense and hoping you will just go away. To hell with it, I've got money to burn, how about £6.27 ?

I can't help but agree with you. The most amusing thing for me was the woman? struggling to clamber aboad the rescue boat. No was she going to let go of her phone

That's exactly what I had for about seven years. With a lock about 50 yards away it was endless entertainment.

I was going to reply in a similar vein.