lewisericeric

Many thanks

Did you have issues with being just on the one river?

Definitely not my idea of boating!! Haha. And just wouldn't be possible for me either to stretch myself under such tight timeframes. Sounds sensible to me too so perhaps it's the way I'll go forward if I proceed. Thanks everyone for all your help.

Pretty sure I'd never get to Trent or Soar from Runcorn area in 7 days! Which is why the Weaver is the only realistic option for me. Don't just want to go on it for the just 7 days as it is a £30 fee on the Anderton these days so was looking to get a 3-month licence and have a decent amount of time on it.

Yes, can see how you can "fudge" it but just don't want to fall foul of any CRT rules or have them on my back at any point as it's just not worth the hassle to me!

Yes, with a Bridgewater Licence you can have 7 days on the CRT canals with no CRT licence. The Weaver doesn't connect to any other river that I'm aware of? (My geography is sketchy here) So I'd have to navigate along the canals to get to another river without having the full canal and river license. But, yes, it is just the Weaver I'm interested in cruising around on for a fixed period, before coming back to the Bridgewater.

Can anyone refresh my memory... I'm a Bridgewater license-holder these days so haven't been on CRT waters in some time... I know that you can go onto CRT waterways for 7 days, via the reciprocal agreement. However, I'm looking at getting a 3-month CRT river only license, but what I don't understand is that if I do get a River license only, the only river I'd be able to navigate to would be the Weaver.... Does that mean I could spend 3 months on the Weaver? Surely that falls foul of the CC requirements as I'd literally be going from A to B to C to B to A - basically up and down the Weaver? Or are there requirements taht you must have a mooring or something if you're just going to be on the one river?

Thanks for the advice on this, guys. I'll contact some gas guys, but really would like to run the line myself. It's a single piece of pipe, so any help with diameters, would be great. Oven is 2.5kw with a 2.2 integral grill and I'm having the Thetford 931 hob which is a total of 5kw over three rings. Any advice helpful in the meantime but will also check with whoever I have to come fit things

Hi All I wonder if anyone can advise, but I'm ideally wanting to 'run' my own gas line, in preparation for having a gas guy come to fit my hob and oven. Just to confirm here, I have NO INTENTION of fitting or connecting any gas appliances myself, I just want to run/clip the gas line under my gunnel so it's ready at the kitchen end and ready in my utility room end for the gas guy to then take outside to the gas lockers. I'll of course run a single length of copper pipe, but woudl rather do this myself. The gas line has to go out the back and my bathroom and bedroom are fitted, polished, painted and looking pristine and I now don't want someone with little care ripping it to bits to put the gas line in, dirty hands,etc. I know it must be clipped, but was wondering: a) what size/type of copper pipe to lay, i.e. 5mm copper brake pipe? and b) I'm sure the clipping had to be done every 20-30cm? What clips to use? Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks! Yes, remembered re the earth, but that's useful so thanks a lot!

Hi guys I've got a 240/standard house pendant that I want to wire into where there's a spot light in my ceiling.... I've got a bulb from bedazzled so it can run on 12v, but I'm just wondering on the pendant I have live/neutral/earth wires, where do these correspond to on the black and red cables on the 12v circuit? How should this be wired up? I should know this by now but can never remember!

Thanks everyone. Had some further unusual activity yesterday when high revving. Called Barrus who said all of it doesn't sound quite right, so they're coming up on Tuesday to have a look.

Hi guys, tahnks for the responses. My fuel filter has a drain on it, so I turned fuel lines off and drained it. I've drained into the end of a plastic pop bottle. All looked like diesel to begin with but now it seems like tiny little spots of water, on the inside of the bottle right at the very bottom.... It did just start raining though at the same time, so worried it could be those just showing 😂 Does it take a while for the water to separate out from the filter when you've drained like that or would it be two separate liquids straight away? I've then put the engine back on and seems to be fine, but popping the revs up to 1500 did see one or two instances of it 'missing a beat' (?) or changing tone, but I have heard from Barrus directly that if I've no load/batteries this can happen and I've just had an outage with my battery system so leisures are currently disconnected at the moment.

Hi All I've a brand new Barrus Shire 43 on my new build narrowboat. It's barely been on... Last night, I turned it on for battery charging and after about 20 minutes, the engine revs started altering/hunting and the exhaust was pluming out thick white smoke.... I tried to rev it to see if that would clear it, but it actually made it worse. Smoke was white. Very thick. What are the chances on a brand new engine eh? Anyone any ideas? I'm thinking an issue with injectors or coolant?

Thanks so much everyone for all the helpful information. Tom/Bex, do you know if the actual unit and tank could be installed (For ease) in my utility room - similar to an engine bay, it's at the back of the boat, not accessible by door from the bedroom only via the back deck doors. Or do these units HAVE to be in the engine bay themselves?