Chrissyboy

Not necessarily. They can moor off the rings, allowing visitors to mooroo up. It happens all the time. If they do hog the rings. then BW have every right to move them on and rightly so.

I would seriously think twice about buying a 2nd hand Honda EU20i. For one thing, it's not so much a case of "it's only 3 years old" as "how many hours has it run for?", and that's something that is very difficult to prove. It could have been on for 8 hours a day 5 days a week for all anyone knows. Also, because it is such a good generator (Honda are arguably the best motor engineers on the planet)there are a lot of far east fakes out there so buyer beware. If you have one, also make sure your insurance company is aware of its existance just to be doubly sure. Don't give them any wriggle room as they may wince at having to pay out over a grand for a replacement and look for reasons not to - esp in the current economic climate. They are great pieces of kit. Smooth, quiet (anyone who says they're not quiet must have sonar for hearing), economical and discreet and with proven Honda reliability. But because of their size they are very theft attractive. Chain them or lose them, and not the sort of chain that can be snapped with a pair of tin snips. Go for something that will need at least a 3ft long pair of bolt croppers to get through. If thieves are going to try to take it, make them sweat bullets for it. Scratch your name and postcode on the side. Thieves hate that. It may not look very attractive but they are work horses after all, not beautiful artifacts, and far better for it to look defaced than for a thief to take it because there is absolutely nothing to say it's yours. Think about it.... Chris

Hi Anyone know any good boat insurers? Thanks Chris

Hi Andy Thanks for the advice on your web site. Much appreciated. Regards Chris

Yeah, this is the problem I have. The coal I currently use (not sure of the name to be honest), if I leave the boat for a couple of hours, it tends to go out and I come back to a cold boat. I also use sawdust briquettes but these give off a lot of heat but don's smoulder like good coal would and hence goes out relatively quickly. I could do with finding a coal that's happy to go on slowly burning through, if a shove a load on the stove before leaving it to its own devices for a couple of hours while I leave the boat or am I asking too much?

Hi Andy. When you say firewood briquettes do you mean the compacted sawdust pellets? Chris

Hi everyone Does anyone know the best brand of coal to use? I'm on a liveaboard with a small wood/coal burning pot bellied stove in the living room and a wood/coal burning stove in the kitchen. Regards Chris

I bought a Bulgarian multi fuel burner off ebay for £250. It cost about £800 to have it plumbed in so that it also heats the rads and the domestic hot water and I found that sawdust briquettes work really well in it. They are cheap at £3.50 per 25kg bag, give off far more heat than wood and leave very little ash in the pan. Chris

Hi Can anyone tell me if there are any good alternatives to a Shoreline 12v fridge please? At £400 - £500 they ain't cheap! Regards Chris

I recently bought some briquettes made from compressed sawdust. They burn very hot, are easy to light and leave little ash. Chris

Well I don't know what's going on. I turned the invertor off, yet ran my taps which triggered my water pump. I thought the invertor powered the water pump! Confused? Not as confused as I am! Chris

Sorry, I meant to say that I have 12v lights on the boat. Maybe I don't need the invertor to power them then. Maybe I just need to leave the batteries switched on at night so I can have lights at the flick of a switch in the morning. If so will this reduce te battery power, them being on standby as it were? Chris

Morning everyone Cann anyone tell me please the answer to this question? I'm new to livingaboard so bear with me. If I leave my inverter on overnight will it use much electricity? It won't be doing anything other than being on tap for when I turn the lights on in the morning. At the moment I turn all power off at night and have to go from one end of the boat to the other in the morning to turn the power on just to get some lighting on. Is it sensible to leave the power on overnight so I can just flick a switch in the morning to get the lights working? Thanks Chris

Thanks NB for the input. My problem is that my boat came without any means whatsoever of measuring the state of play in the batteries. I need to sort it sharpish.

Hi everyone Anyone know the best way to get ironing done on a boat without 240v hookup? Thanks Chris PS Please don't say take it to your mother! I've already been there..!! :-)