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I spoke to the owner ~5 years ago about mooring there, and he was a very nice chap. He explained that he could fill the place multiple times hence zero opportunity to get in. My only comment would be is there is a hell of a lot of hire boat activity there, hence not a quiet canal location.

The OEM for these units is Rich Electric of Taiwan, should you need repair/parts etc..

You can buy replacement LCDs on eBay, quite easy to replace. The counter is still working, it is just the display. The ribbon cable cracks.

Apparently the larger fish sense the pollution and leave the area, hence it is mostly small fish that die.

The EA is installing coffer dams on the Walsall canal.

Latest is that no boat movements are allowed today. EA is just waiting for dilution.

Latest is that the EA have taken water samples that will be analysed overnight. If they show sufficient dilution then the locks will be opened in the morning.

All lock flights in the area now closed under instruction of the EA. I tortured myself by doing the Walsall canal yesterday - to now find out that I also survived potential cyanide posoining it will be a trip to remember and never repeat.

Use proper heat resistant adhesive. https://shop.vitcas.com/vitcas-heat-resistant-tile-adhesive.html

Summit closed and Cobblers lock now failed. At least 30% of the locks on the east side are in a poor state and could fail at any time, most of the locks on the fox hangers flight only have one paddle.

There are a huge number of hire boats from below Caen Hill to Bath, so the issue you will have is other hire boats. You will find moorings at Bradford and Bathampton and if you arrive early afternoon at the top of Bath, so plan to go onto the river and moor at Avon Steet. Also do some of the river and return to Bath. If you don't like other boats you'll hate it, and you will probably get shouted at to slow down regardless of how slow you go. However if you enjoy looking at boats that are different in many unique ways and mixing it with other boats (I.e. like the Llangollen in summer) you will enjoy it. Enjoy.

..and you can also use engine heat to heat the radiators when you are on the move. Free heat which keeps the boat warm during the day. Obviously only useful if you intend to cruise and avoids flue smoke in the face.

On one of our radiators I installed a drain valve on the radiator, so I can isolate the one radiator both sides and drain it down - then refill with 25% mix. I do this every year, avoids a full drain down and refill, but keeps the inhibitor up. I have a pressurised system hence header tank not an option.

Trent Valley Marine at Aston Marina T&M. They have an out of the water heated building. Had mine back to metal painted 8 years ago, very pleased, still looking great.

Then the above should have been your response, not your cheap jibe for a rather inappropriate laugh - it degrades a useful thread. I let my kids take their jackets off when inside the boat, that's all I was saying.

Nice..

If you are fitting kids out, then make sure they can operate the buckles themselves. Arriving at a lock and then spending 10 minutes helping the kids get their jackets on does not make you very popular. This time of year there is no way you can expect them to keep them on all the time.

You would introduce the policy slowly by winding up tenancy periods over a number of years, to gently weed out small private landlords, with less buy-to-let demand the house market would correct. There would still be rented accommodation, it would be owned by rental companies with long term interests. The main issue is that it is owned by the wrong people with the wrong interests. These private interests are damaging, a little bit of government interference is needed to correct.

Absolutely, house ownership is good, buy to let is distructive. As per other countries, tennets should have the legal right to a 10 year tenancy without no fault evictions. This would discourage most private landlords. The ridiculous situation of tenants having no security and landlords being exploited by serial defaulters serves no one.

A house in the country is the end goal, not the start. To get there you need to use your earned income wisely. Financially secure people who earnt their weath didn't start with a house in the country they start with an ex-local authority house in need of update in some dump. I was next to the M6, we only had peace and quiet when there was a crash on the motorway. Every town has an affordable area, buy one, do it up a bit, bank your mortgage payments, 3 years move and repeat. In 10 years you'll have a decent place in a reasonable area. Then you can refine your goals, and make those all important life choices without being poor, I.e. rent the house and live on a boat. If you use all your savings to buy a boat you will be curtailing your life choices, everything you own will be in a depreciating asset, there will be no way back and you will be poor. When you are fit and active this may not be so bad, but when you get that little bit older, or have some health issues you will be screwed. The one bit I do agree with, avoid renting when working.

Check that the webasto fuel pump rubber mounting is still fixed in its intended position and that the fuel pump or its piping/hoses are not making contact with anything else, I.e. the hull.

Any idea of the timetable for lifting in the new bridge sections?

Byron Bay is so last year... bridge 173A aka Meadow Bridge K&A is the place to be on a late summers afternoon 🥴.

Yes be careful, alcoholism and drugs is an unfortunate reality. You may like to wait for the summer as they seem to be a little less aggressive, although you will then have to suffer the bongos.

Hilperton Marsh Bridge