Alway Swilby

The weather when the screenshot was taken last week was good hence 17 degrees. 6th March at 0830 is when I took the screenshot. I went faulty about a week before that. The SOC happens to state 100%. It's not always correct as any SOC isn't. It is charging at 60 amps. It really is charging at 60 amps, the battery BMS confirms this but I haven't got a screenshot of that.

This is from the VRM website but the same readings occur when connected to the Venus GX locally. I took the screenshot 6 days ago, but when I took it it was live data. When I am connected locally the readings are the same. The VRM can connect to the Multiplus so the connection is there.

It was good for 7 years. Stopped working properly a couple of weeks ago. The Victron Community haven't come up with anything yet.

I have a Victron Multiplus 24/3000/70, a BMV700, an MPPT 100/30 all connected to a Venus GX. The “Power Control” feature of the Multiplus seems to not be doing its job. The AC in and AC out is showing 0 watts most of the time even if I run a 2kw kettle. If the batteries are on charge the shore power shows a negative number round about -25 watts even though the 24v lithium batteries are charging at about 60 amps. If I set the input current limit to 3 amps it still draws what it needs from the shore power, way over the 3 amps (and the power assist doesn’t kick in). In this screen shot the batteries are charging at 60 amps, the shore power is limited to 3 amps. Any ideas? See the screenshot.

And people driving aeroplanes.

This is an interesting video on the event. Chap now wants to be an RNLI skipper! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03EAv2vZO8

We get Sainsbury's deliveries and pretty much always, a pack of meat which is already in its own sealed plastic packaging is also put in a thin plastic bag.

I think at least one of us (i.e me) read that comment after the typo had been edited and corrected by Gybe Ho so what chance did we have of understanding the link?

Same here on the North Yorkshire coast

I think Julius Caesar did just that. I bet he got muddy feet! 😊

Makes me wonder if there was some sort of technical issue causing lack of power or steering?

I've completed the survey. I understand that the NBTA are suggesting what answers we should give. I'm vaguely interested in what their suggestions are. Don't get me wrong, not because I support them at all but just wondering what they suggest?

Presumably they mean single as in not a staircase rather than single as in narrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygwvwql5yo This ship ran aground yesterday (Monday). Two tugs, one from Hull and one from Goole, tried to shift it on last nights tide but without success. A pilot boat and a Humber Rescue boat were also in attendance. I was watching them on Vessel Tracker. That was the highest tide until the next sequence of spring tides. They may be there some time.

I think he's replying to Mike Todd not you. No. They are always available on any of your devices at anytime. If all your devices are lost in a fire then your files are downloadable from the cloud (Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, Google or whichever other cloud service you have chosen). A much better solution than an external hard drive stored in another room. If nothing else hard drives themselves are quite vulnerable to failure.

I've had 7 today and 15 yesterday.

MS OneDrive gives you 5 Gbyte free storage. If you want more (which we do as we store a LOT of photos there) you can get Office 365 (MS Word. Excel, Outlook etc.) and a Tbyte of storage for £80 per year. Other rates are probably available. I think Drobbox give you 2 Gbytes free. Google Drive gives yo 15 Gbytes free.

You could use a cloud backup such as Dropbox or OneDrive. Stuff is on your hard drive as well as stored in the cloud. So if your hard drive goes pear shaped and you have to buy a new laptop then it's all there available to download again.

We have just signed up with a painter to do our complete boat. Out of the water, all fittings off, grit blast the whole hull (with the windows in to try to keep as much dust outside as possible), then windows out and get those bits back to bare metal too. Add a couple of extra T studs at the bow, 2 pack blacking including the baseplate, 2 pack everything else, signwriting. Then refit everything, move some of the fittings (pole and plank rack) to a different location. Powder coat or replace the chrome mushrooms. All done in their next available 5 week slot April 2026 and includes hard standing from the previous December, that way if an earlier slot becomes available the boat is there already and could be started early. We could also cancel our CRT licence for a few months. All in an insulated, heated to 20 degrees shed. Getting on for £20k.

And the breaker being turned off!

I've got an app on my phone called Waterways SOS. It sends RCR an "SOS" request which includes my membership number, phone number and location. I've used it 2 or 3 times (but not for about a year) and they've then rung me back within 5 minutes to talk about the breakdown. I've just had a look on the Play Store and it looks like it's now called RCR SOS.

Each to their own. Personally I think its wrong to use an upper case B every time the word boat is typed and should be made illegal. It really really annoys me, but hey, you do your annoying thing and I'll keep my pram cover. 🙂

So did ours. Carefree Cruising boats all had the pump outs on the roof. It was never a problem pumping them out.

We've moored opposite College Cruisers in Jericho many times. They are two day moorings in summer and not far to walk to the city centre. There has always been space available there for us to moor. The nearby Bookbinders pub does great food. The nearby railway can be a bit noisy but we always sleep through that. As said above you would have to go down the next lock, Isis Lock, to turn but as long as the river isn't in flood this is an easy thing to do. There is no way the Environment Agency (the navigation authority below the lock) would enforce any kind of licence requirements there, in fact I've a feeling that licensed CRT boats are officially allowed to do that to turn. About half a mile further out is Aristotle Lane visitor moorings. You are not allowed to run engines for battery charging here but I understand they are in the process of installing electricity bollards for use by visitors.

Be careful that they don't break your arm!