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FYI Mike, although you can see the footbridge across the platforms that isn't where you can get station access. If you carry on up for five minutes you will see another site similar where a old sign and some steps to a hotel are - that is where you would have stopped and then walked up and back ten minutes to the station - it will be moored on anyway so you wouldn't have got in. Goring is a good choice.

Reading main station although where do you moor as now under the "phone in for a tenner overnight" scheme. Tilehurst, there is access by the old hotel but I suspect you wont get in there as now always moored on. Pangbourne, easy access from the meadows or a 30 min walk from Beale Park. Goring, good moorings and a 15 min stroll to the station.

I think you have had a problem and are looking a bit hard to find a problem where there probably isn't one... Suck out a sample from the bottom of the tank and unless you find the black oily mess you had before I would be content to carry on running. My only slight concern is why the injectors have gummed up - but then you have sent them for servicing now anyway - so once installed and perhaps after a summer of cruising have one out for a check. Once a year inspect the bottom of the tank for any water and any oily gunk using the Pela. Check your fuel filters for water and change as often as you feel is necessary. Keep dosing the tank and enjoy your boating to keep a regular changeover of good fuel. If the gum returns then I would look again but I think - and I am no expert - that what you are looking at is the dead diesel bug but much thinned out and your filters are doing their job. Best regards

So, as has been discussed, the trouble you may or may not have is not necessarily with the power requirement of the washing machine but it's electronics liking the waveform from the generator. The only way to test a washing machine on the output of your gennie is to come alongside a friends boat and power their machine through a cycle. You can then see what makes work with your set-up. This is my experience on a Vetus (pah) generator, yours may well be different: Zanussi Compact - Can be fussy, mine just twitched, that was an expensive lesson* Candy Compact - Worked well but was too small AEG - My present machine. Great but I need to put a additional electrical load on for it to kick into life....sometimes. Miele are very well thought of but I can never square the cost. * Expensive lesson in that manufacturers will not necessarily take back a machine that has been used... Of course how you check it works without running a wash I don't know. And then what excuse do you come up with when it works perfectly off shore-power but not off your generator on a boat? There are other solutions get arounds to this common problem - like giving a feed of hot water to not use the heating element - or indeed going low tech and avoiding any of this nonsense... Good luck.

For the first time in years I managed to stop at the Reading Tesco mooring, praised the lads doing the work on the pontoon and went to Tesco. Didn't see any signs. Ten minutes later I was back on the boat and moving off with a smile - I won't be smiling if I get a letter and a fine. That was a fortnight ago. Whoever is in charge of the mooring needs to be clear on what they want. No mooring, overnight for a tenner or no charge if you pop in for a shop. I won't risk it again until things are clear.

If you are heading downstream from Ravens on the right hand side you have a long promenade with rings - There are no mooring signs on the concrete although well worn - you will be shooed off by a council man at some point. Of course, a overnight stay is not going to attract attention and they have bigger fish to deal with... The palace side you will get shooed off by one of the palace patrols if they spot you, upstream or downstream of the Ait - They want you to be either at the Palace mooring or those at Barge walk - The only way is to hide in the trees which make you hard to spot from the road they use. Some have been using that trick for a while...

I just bought a couple of these: https://www.crew-safe.co.uk/acatalog/Parmaris-Life-Jacket-Raider.html Mine came with the crotch strap - Raider automatic Red. Very quick delivery.

Clinker built, mahogany faced ply over oak frames - still had the original pencil numbers on them from the craftsman that built her. Obeche is the light wood on top. It took a lot of work by me to keep it like that as I am sure you can imagine, a labour of love. Thankyou.

I thought Marine16 was a biocide or is it their complete that also has a emulsifying agent? Happy to be corrected... As for the OP, when did you last fill up? Have all your diesel users been okay running so far? If yes, I would just carefully pop it back into the tank through a filter of some kind, disposing of the last litre or so of gunk. If you decant a sample into a see through container and you are not happy with the contents, you then have to make the decision of what to do with a tank of fuel as I can only presume it will look like that throughout. Just my thoughts

Ain't that the truth...

It wasn't always big plastic... My 1954 Broom Viking

Did my tank only a few days ago before a fill using the modified pella approach and found about a egg-cup full of black slime at the bottom of the vee in my tank. It appeared oily and easy to break up so wasn't too bothered but pleased to have it out... I had the engine stop on the tideway with the new to me barge due to bug/slime clogging the filters...my fault, enthusiasm got the better of me. Never again.

Defence cuts biting...

For the money I wouldn't hesitate to buy those alternatives to the Jab now...It isn't anything special.

I have the Jab Mike, I use it to turn on my inverter and so my heating. The one call or text you speak of can trigger the relay for a user defined period of time from a second to permanently open or closed.

I got some threaded rod the same thread size as the leg bolts. Drilled a hole in the hearth. Bolted the feet on using the existing nut. Put the stove on the hearth with the threaded rod extending through and bolted the lot down. From the outside it can't be seen.

Here we go

That's down Molesey/Sunbury way i think... by the reservoirs and water works.

And is probably now sat bringing a little joy to another rural mooring spot...

He's on his second...

Presuming it is a false and you have checked as Rusty has mentioned above... Are any of your domestic batteries on charge and gassing? Hydrogen gas can upset detectors and trigger false alarms...

Apparently the farmer asked a boat that had been sat for what he thought was longer than a reasonable time to move, got a bit of grief, thought "I don't need this hassle" and popped up the signs...