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Tacet

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  1. If you have neither been checking the compartment nor operating its bilge pump fora considerable while, it could have accumulated very slowly. Empty it, run the propeller to see if there is an appreciable leak from the stern gland. If so, fix/tighten the gland. If not, keep any eye and see how much water arrives over the next days.
  2. Unless the cupboards are self-levelling, they will always change with the list and pitch of the boat. Taking the floor as the starting point seems logical to me.
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  4. It's an inaccurate statement (insurers will not pay out more than the historic purchase price) for boats too. It's generally fair to say that the insured should not gain/benefit from the insured event - and in the case of a write off, that is measured by its market value. The price paid might give some indication of value - but it's not a ceiling Agreed value for house insurance would be most unusual; how would it work for a smaller loss? The sum insured is usually the maximum payout and also used for averaging when underinsured- not a guaranteed fixed payment.
  5. Gosh. Must be a bit annoying if you've owned the same house for decades - and only when it burns to a pile of ash do you find the insurers will pay out no more than you gave for it.
  6. What's that got to do with the oft- suggested cause of condensation in a boat tank? A (very) typical car has a full and empty tank in rotation, same as a boat. So, broadly speaking half empty on average; same as a boat. Same space, in proportion, for the air within to expand and contract, drawing in fresh moist air each day and condensing each night.
  7. Why is condensation not a regular problem in a typical car?
  8. If the pitch is protected by the Mobile Homes Act there are substantial controls on the terms of any contract.
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    Why has this not been mentioned before?
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  16. No no no. Following Ian's earlier example regarding (expert) papers, you should say that he agrees with you! It seems right to me both in theory and experience too. Passing in opposite directions is fine, although you can sometimes feel the tails wagging towards each other a little earlier than seems ideal. Overtaking - and you can get that awful feeling that the boats are going to clash and there is nothing to be done to prevent it. Having said that, I am unsure that there are no circumstances at all in which there will be a flow between two boats passing in opposite directions and I shall now devote myself to thinking of at least one.
  17. When was this? The limitation period in England and Wales for recovery of land had been no more than 12 years since at least 1939. There are now (since 2002) important distinctions in processes between registered and unregistered land.
  18. Alan's opinion is that the BSC is already invalid - albeit unbeknown to even the BSS people etc. Rather oddly, he can't find chapter-and-verse nor give an indication of the threshold that triggers secret invalidation. The vessel would not, from what we have seen, currently properly obtain a BSC. It may well infringe other regulations or contractual terms or just be plain dangerous. But my view is that (assuming it has an unexpired one already) it has not had its BSC withdrawn until, at least, someone in authority takes steps.
  19. But it doesn't say the BSC becomes automatically invalid, in such circumstances. If it did, would it immediately be revalidated when it becomes compliant again? Or is another examination required? And at what level of non- compliance does the BSC become invalid? If an essential gas pipe clip breaks and is fixed a week later, is it without a valid BSC for that week, for all time or is that defect below some undisclosed threshold? In my estimation, unless the BSC is more formally withdrawn, it remains as such it is just that the vessel is non-compliant and quite possibly seriously or dangerously so.
  20. At home, not being connected to mains sewerage, there is an aerobic digester. Basically a three chamber tank with bubbles being passed through the middle chamber. The output discharges, lawfully, into a watercourse aka the ditch on the other side of the road. Every once in a while (measured in years) the grit that has settled in the first chamber to be pumped away - but that's about it (don't get me started on ensuring the clean discharge falls away to said ditch.) Is there a reason why, in principle at least, something similar could not be used on a boat? Practical issues are probably ensuring the tank is sufficiently sized to give the waste long enough to digest. Our tank holds a couple of weeks output; it takes the grey water too which might be essential to dilute the black waste. And the pump or a stirrer needs to be powered somehow. Are they used on any vessels?
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  22. I don't think it is a BSS requirement to use stranded cable these days. And when it was, my recollection is that to the number of strands was not specified so that 7029 ye olde household cable was compliant. Clearly not too many people died as the requirement was dropped from the BSS.
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