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Slim

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  1. Not unless they were running coach (or Rolls Royce) trips from Eton and Harrow.
  2. But at some stage you will need to buy the whiskey, to say nothing about food.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.)
  8. No. Never put a pump in the engine bilge.
  9. Slim

    Where is MtB?

    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 ?
  10. 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
  11. That's exactly what I had for about seven years. With a lock about 50 yards away it was endless entertainment.
  12. I was going to reply in a similar vein.
  13. Well, my Leoch AGMs didn't have a sign of a valve or anything similar either. From memory the only way I would have been able to get to the plates etc would have been with a hammer and chisel.
  14. From personal experience things just seem to accelerate rapidly after that point. 10 years ago, bag of coal in each hand, 5 years ago bag of coal in one hand. Now, the firelighters to go with the coal. Come back in 5-10 years with an update.
  15. The issue of loading/lifting gas bottles or coal was a significant factor in my deciding, at the age of 76, to call it a day as far as boating was concerned. As the old adage goes "time and tide wait for no man."
  16. Tony, point taken. I mentioned 15mm as an indication of size only. Indeed, when I installed my pipework I was advised that household copper pipe was not acceptable.
  17. I just used 1/2" (aka 15mm). It was malleable and ran from the cockpit isolation valve (as required at the time) to the appliances without joints.. Getting it through the forward bulkhead and fashioning a suitable grommet was 'interesting'.
  18. Sometimes one can over research an issue. Given that the greatest risk from gas piping would be from a leak. I fail to see how the volume of gas within a given length of pipe is of any significance. Far more important is how gas might escape into the cabin of a boat. The greatest weakness is obviously at joints. Soldered joints are a no, no. Think of the reasoning behind the ban. Solder melts at a fairly low temperature . A soldered joint could fail in the event of a non gas related fire thereby turning the fire into a gas related fire of greater intensity. Easy when you think of it. As I understand it brazed or silver soldered joints are acceptable both of which require a much higher temperature to fail ie melt.
  19. Forget what they're called but the standoff brackets you see on some plumbing may be suitable dependant upon size. (not copper saddle clamps) Remembered, Musem brackets
  20. I had a Gulper fail a few years ago. As I recall it was a flap/joker valve. Bought an overhaul kit which was not cheap. Replaced the various parts supplied including the diaphragm which forms the seal between the two parts of the casing. Could not get the diaphragm to stay in place whilst re-assembling. The locating lip was just too tiny. After hours of fiddling around gave up and binned the whole lot. Long winded way of saying exactly the same as Mr Smelly.
  21. No , all you need is a windlass and a highjacked pedestrian. That's how I always got through it single handed.
  22. I've got one as well (mine came from Maplins). Must track down where to get some tape.
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  24. I would say, both. I had a Squirrel fitted about 10' aft of my front doors on a 55' nb and that worked fine. Never understood fitting a heating source at one end of a narrow cabin . (be it a narrow or a wide beam.)
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