jonathanA

yes but the OP talks about accesssing his office PC and implies hes controlling that remotely which would be different to say VPNing in to an corporate environment and using say teams. i found that using my phone as a local 'hotspot' i could work adequately using VPN/Teams including Video and audio calls. using things like on drive (and google equivalents) there should be little real need for large file downloads to local devices. (yes there will always exceptions) . Phone in the window was needed in my case !. I then replaced that with an £80 who are we Bsomething or another 4G router and a couple of cheap magmount 1/4 wave stub antennae and 100GB/Month sim - and its been fine for work and more importantly the Dark Lord can stream strictly etc. to the 'smart' TV. I'd agree with the earlier suggestion and suggest the Op tether to their phone to see how it goes as a starting point.

I'm constantly amazed at the huge london premium for everything.... i know of a couple of acres of lovely land next to the canal with probably twice the frontage and i think over priced at something in the region of £120K, walking distance to a railway station, 10 mins from the motorway... even that still have best part of mil to put under the bed...

they did keep it open through winter a few years ago possibly around 2019 as an experiment i think. I know we just missed it, but would definitely give it a go if it was open through the winter. I can't really see why its a big problem, guess they would have to man stanley locks but as you say vollies to match booked passages can't be that hard.

citroen Ami - my first car - quirky to say the least !

years ago it was a common sight to newspapers being set alight under the diesel tanks of trucks on a cold winters morning. presumably to to dela with the waxing. As an aside there is also 'winter' and 'summer' calor gas for use in bulk tanks and you can get the regulator freezing up if your unlucky. (DAMHIK).

they aren't much better than a couple of spade connectors TBH and the 'cheap /accessory' single ones tend to come with a short length of wire already attached so you end up with some sort of connector arrangement anyway. I've seen them overheat at modest currents - 10-20A. but agree sort of thing you should have in your spares box/tool kit along with a decent ratchet crimper (can be had for around a tenner these days) and a selection of quality crimp connectors. the glass fuses are actually 1.25 inch (32mm) and readily available from places like CPC.

a good workaround , especially for a relatively low rating of fuse is just to use a standard blade type automotive fuse, cut the old in line fuse holder off and fit 1/4" female spade connectors (blue or red crimp would be fine) to the wire ends. the blade fuse will fit in the spade connectors and you can buy automotive blade fuses for pence..

the separates vs combi argument is another version of the pumpout vs cassette debate.... In this case I think we need the OP to give us more info to help work out whether it is 'too clever' electronics or a physical issue like a dodgy shore lead or a combination of both !

yes it will be interesting to see what it goes for and who buys it. Also why an auction - previous business gone bust ? i can't see how you could make more than £50K year (being optimistic) and if i had £1.5M laying about I could do better than that with out the hassle of running the business by simply giving it to an investment manager. if you don't have the capital, I don't see how the business could fund it unless there is some other significant income stream. presume one of the 'chains' will buy it to add to their portfolios.

indeed, say £200K income from 85 berths+dry dock. outgoings would be CRT NAA - 20%?, bus rates, insurance, water, utilities (maybe some income from resell of electric at cost), maintenance etc... thinking you could make a reasonable living but not a licence to print money... does include the accommodation on site, but not sure i'd want berth holders knocking on my door at midnight complaining the toilets were blocked....

in some ways you already do - all right stretching the point a bit (lot) but if you were installing the stove in a living area it would need 'Hetas' for gods sake... i think you will be ok so long as you don't plan to sleep in your summer house.... P.S I would consider one of those chinese diesel heaters. not hard to feed the exhaust out through the side of the shed, or as I intend to do, stick the heater outside (in a lean to/shelter) and duct the warm air in to where its wanted.

when I was an apprentice anything more than 10W was considered 'power' by the electronics bods and the power guys used to talk about 'small machines of say 1/2 a megawatt' one thing we always had to be careful about was our 'low voltage' 50V systems that could produce/handle very large currents and careless screwdriver or spanner could be 'entertaining'

your starting point really should be to RTFM - read the flipping manual for your victron unit. if you don't have the manual then posting the model number and/or a pic on here and someone will be able to tell you all about it. the terms float, absorption and bulk relate to the charging (of the 12V batteries) function of your Victron. I can't see why that should affect the boat mains unless there is something else going on.

A good few years ago the local Bobby told me that my 4 d cell maglite could be an offensive weapon, but a torch if switched on... so I had to switch it on before hitting any scrotes with it.

Seems reasonable to look for a fire retardant varnish or paint to help mitigate spread of a fire. Suspect a lot of us on wooden lined nbs could do with thinking about it rather than just slapping on b&qs cheapest....

If its been on the market since June that seems a long time so either ther is something wrong with it or it's over priced or both. It could be the minor things you have spotted putting others off perhaps coupled with a seller who wants the asking price. People can be very stubborn when selling things. Be cheeky ask the broker why it's still on the market, what's the sellers position, have they had other offers? It can be quite surprising what you can find out with a polite question and a smile. Eta if its in the water ask to take it for a test sail.

it wouldn't. just drive down the side of Lake Windermere and see all the inappropriate development.... initially the 'Lake district special Planning Board' was able to control (for good or bad) development in the NP, but in the last few years they seem to have given up /had their powers eroded. it seems a completely impractical suggestion anyway, any 'canal national park authority' would have to deal with virtually every county and local council in the country. (i'm sure there's a couple with no rivers/canals but can't be many).

do let us know how you got on 🙂

where are you reading '89%' ? There are a number of cheap chinese voltmeters, (often coupled with 12V car type cigar lighter sockets) that also give a 'battery charge' indication as a % (based on the voltage). if its one of those just ignore the %age reading altogether.

see several of my posts before the bickering started.... Most elsan points seem to have a notice 'saying not suitable for self pumpout' ergo those that do not have such a notice are.... although from what I've seen those ones usually coincide with a CRT pumpout facility anyway.

I have no personal experience of Crooke marina and it is a sort of odd place, but my assumption is that they have PO facilities. only two locks from burscough and appley is a deep 'un , the other, dean lock is easy enough (and has a water point as it happens) . or the PO machine is broken and/or it won't accept the CRT prepaid credit card thing you've had in a drawer on the boat for two years...

in the frozen north - all too common i'm afraid. so at the west end of the L&L there is a pumpout at the top of the wigan flight so a 42 lock /two day job if its a there and back trip. next CRT one is Litherland. But there is crooke and Scarisbrick marinas and also MMBC not sure where they have PO's but they have several bases at the liverpool end of the L&L. Water taps are slightly better but only just... I'd say its more like 2 hours each way and a number of decent pubs en-route so potentially a pleasant day out. the op did initially say they managed 3 months between Pumpouts so not that onerous, of course if thats changed and its more frequent then it could be a real nuisance.