BargeeSpud

Welcome Iain, enjoy.

Brilliant news matty, thanks.

Brilliant little business run by Jules & Richard, 2 great waterways characters & I can't recommend their services highly enough. Good luck to you both, long may you continue & I miss our little chats over tea & cake after our summer coal delivery, but hopefully there will be a chance to bump into you on a towpath somewhere in the not too distant.

I wonder if the guy's house, if he has one, is earthed? Jesus H, you wouldn't want him working on your electrics would you, far quenelle.

Ignor him, it looks like he's hunting for negativity like a clickbaiting keyboard warrior.

Well, it's L innit. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Totally agree with all that's been said, bottom line is that it's your boat & you can do what you like - provided you realise that you will probably get a fair bit of interest as you cruise around! I themed my last boat on Star Trek & got all the usual associated guff, but it was all in good fun & besides, most people that will comment to you about it will be genuinely interested in how you came up with it, so look on it as good ice breaker when meeting people. Most of all, have fun!

You could run a circular saw set to the depth you want down the groove, guided by a straight piece of wood clamped to the hatch for the side of the saw body to follow.

As per Tony's rsponse, except to add that you should consider installing isolation valves as well so that the Webasto does not heat the engine & runs efficiently. I would guess that the engine heating the Webasto circuit would not be a problem, but then Tony can answer that one for you better than I can! I would also check whether your engine coolant concentration is compatible with your Webasto seeing as it will be shared by both "circuits", it probably will be, but still worth checking.

We've all got tales of ignorant boaters, and I'm sure that some of us have unwittingly fallen into that same category without realising it at the time or sometimes for very good reasons, such as speeding because its unsafe to go slower, as has already been highlighted on an earlier post. My most recent example of being on the receiving end of such ignorance, or in this case, selfishness (is there a difference?) happened last summer. One morning I was helping to move a boat back to its home mooring when we arrived at a lock to find a pair of "liveaboards" tied up on the approach bollards leaving our steerer hanging in midstream whilst we turned the lock. A guy came out of the pair apologising as they'd only arrived late the night before. I bit back a retort as I was a guest on the boat we were moving, because I'd come across this same pair tied up on the approach bollards of another lock a few weeks earlier whilst cruising my own boat, the same guy came out & gave the exact excuse, word for word. I'm no longer boating now, that experience I've just related was the last of a fairly long list of things that have changed our waterway life over the last few years which have made me realise that I've enjoyed some of the best years on our canals & the time was right to give it all up. It wasn't planned, many circumstances dictated that the end was nigh, so, as cruising was not really much fun anymore, we sold the boat. I won't bore you with all the reasons, but I suppose the saddest thing is that we don't miss it, but then there are still towpaths to walk and we can still get our waterways fix whenever we like. Cheers all.

Hiya, Simple question. Is a Gas Safety Certificate an Essential Requirement for RCD compliance? Cheers.

Alan, Wotever. Succint & to the point, love it! Cal, you are so right, it kind of makes me think I've wasted everybody's time. Just goes to show what being stuck inside for a few days can do to your mind, mind you the Omnipotent One will probably suggest that I don't need to be stuck indoors on a crap day for my mind to get messed up!

Hiya, First off, Happy Eater to all, hope you've not seen too much snow or rain! During my rather "damp" easter break, I've been scanning the mags including the for sales & it set me wondering whether there actually is a best time to buy or sell your boat. It used to be thought that the best deals for buying were had at the end of the cruising season when owners didn't necessarily want to incur mooring fees etc. when its not being used. Conversely, the thinking used to be that the best time to sell was just ahead of the start of the cruising season when buyers would be more eager to get their hands on a boat. With today's less structured attitude towards cruising, with more continuous cruising, liveaborads etc., has this affected this "original thinking" when it comes to buying & selling boats? Does the type of boat have a bearing, widebeam, narrowbeam, liveaboard etc.? What to you all think?

No reason why not, all the socket does is reduce the voltage to that needed for phone charging etc., so I doubt there are any "sensitive" electronics involved.

Why?

If that means I can get away with only having the one switch instead of the current 2, then yes. After all, it's highly unlikely that I'll want to operate the gennie & the engine at the same time, if I did, then the the link to the Blue Seas switch with O-1-2-1+2 might be the better one to have seeing as both gennie & engine share the same battery. BTW, it turns out that my problem was actually the fuse! Beta fitted a blade type fuse which would seem to allow vibration to induce the possibility of a stress fracture & this is what has happened. The common blade fuses I've normally seen have the fuse & blades moulded within its plastic jacket, whereas the one supplied by Beta has the fuse mounted within a plastic case.