kevinl

I love it, might put in an offer, it's just a shame there's no more details, like engine, got one or not, watertight or sieve, just a few bit to give you a clue.

Specsavers are good for batteries if you buy online - we buy 10 packs at a time and they are much less than most other places and are decent batteries, not cheap chinese crap like most of the cheaper on line batteries. The batteries should be free to anyone with an NHS hearing aid, we can pick them up from the local GP, library, civic centre (town hall), NHS walk in centre or anytime you go to the clinic. The tubes should be replaced evey 6 months (again free) and usually they give you a handful of packs if you ask. Currently Rayovac Crystal Clear Plus, zinc air are the ones they give us, seem to last for about 10 days never switched off.

You have to get a referal letter from your GP, the suppliers can reclaim all the costs from the NHS but only if you're over 55. Under that you'll be refered to your local hospital ENT or audiology clinic. It's to make it more accessable and take some of the strain off the hospitals although it's free now some do see it as a creeping start of privatisation.

From yesterdays Dail Mail. Sorry I don't know how to do a link. People with hearing loss are more likely to suffer from dementia because it speeds up mental decline Being hard of hearing can increase the speed at which thinking and memory deteriorates with age Those with hearing loss had a 40 per cent faster mental decline than those who could hear normally Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2265983/aring-loss-linked-onset-dementia-study-found.html#ixzz2Ii56PK7a Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Go out and do it, it's a real eyeopener when suddenely you're back in tune with the rest of the world, you won't believe what you've being missing out on. Deafness is a slow developing condition and it's hard for you to see how it slowly takes away your life and the longer you fight it them more you lose out. None of us looks forward to hearing aids, glasses, plastic hips and knees and all the rest, but living deafness is a sensory deprivation you can totally solve. Get your life back and when you get to 55 Smelly it's all free.

There's a couple of you here with the classic deafness symptoms hearing is OK for most things but useless in a crowd. In case you don't know in many areas you can now get free NHS digital hearing aids from Specsavers (no connection with them) you have to be refered by your GP and be over 55 then it's all free although they will try to sell you their better versions. For some reason people reluctantly accept they may need glasses but will not accept the effect their hearing isn't up to it. Getting your hearing back can improve your life imeasurably, the feeling of isolation that being even slightly deaf brings can't be underestimated, when you can suddenly hear what's going on again it knocks 10 years off you. Not popular I know but hearing aids are a life changer, bite the bullet and give it a go (it's free) what have you got to loose? K

I put your name jp117 in the search bar and it came up with a load of topics you started.

Do you own this boat yet or is the 60 foot boat + a 10 foot tug deck (70 feet total) a dream boat? If you have it then stick with it, you can go pretty much anywhere except for a few bits in the north and a couple of levels down south, more than enough for anyone, however, if this is just your dream for the future then consider that most of the comments about what can (with the know how) be done in a 70 foot boat have been made by some of the best and most experienced of the members on this site. Somebody's law says that work expands to the time alotted, likewise junk works on the same principal, you carry baggage you no longer need e.g. beds for friends/children who might come to stay. A lot of the long time liveaboards seem to be happy with their 58/62 feet of space and the ways that makes their lives easier. Do you need a dinnette, a walkabout bathroom with shower and hot tub,sauna and changing rooms? Anyway how much diesel and water can you store on the tug deck? If I already owned the boat or it was a bargain I'd go for it but if not then I'd look to the others here who manage to live quite nicely on less length and see how they show size doesn't matter.