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If your CH system has a calorifier on it for Webasto heat, then to stop that leg when in engine heat mode connect motorised valve to the relay on the Webasto loom. The relay should operate at about 40 Deg water temp, hence will only open leg to calorifier when webasto on and up to temp.

Add a plate heat exchanger between the two circuits. I have added after calorifier, over cooling not a problem on my setup (wait for engine to be up to temp). The CH circuit also has a Webasto, works a treat, pressurised system.

Good effort

I watched fire and rescue do exactly that a few years back in a rib.

"Our staff have worked admirably at numerous locations to deal with incidents, including through the night in many cases," [CRT] added Oh well done. They seem to be in denial regarding the responsibilities that have.

Yup, it has made the local news. The Trent has also flooded across the fields into the T&M below Aston lock (Stone) so the levels are right up. Aston marina pontoons are under.

Made it half way about 3 years ago but could not go any further due to a huge log in the narrows further on. Weed was thick but passable.

That's better.

Disgraceful. What a horrible individual.

If you can, then convert to a two pipe system with flow and return for both the radiators and the calorifier. No problem with keeping Alde in circuit. Just make sure it can't be isolated so it can provide the expansion. Balancing the radiators will be arkward if alde and webasto are not next to each other and hence the circ pump is at different location. But will work.

That's a shame. It'll work, it will just be very manual to get the best output. Does one pipe go up either side of the boat?

Your proposed system design is wrong. Add new radiators on the left of your existing system (I am assuming you do have two pipe system and radiators tee into flow and return).Plumb your webasto in series with your alde heater at same location as the alde to avoid radiator balancing problems. If you have to plumb at the other end of the boat then plumb it at the far end of the radiator circuit. If you also have to use seperate pump then balancing radiators will be difficult.

I hope this goes somewhere. I find it particularly depressing the amount of work my company ends up placing in Norway due to lack of UK yards.

Try here. http://www.mikuniheating.com Then accessories and exhaust systems. Varies sizes of sealed exhausts.

I found these moorings and Friars Mill full so moored on the newer pontoons underneath bridge 8 just opposite Abbey Park. There was no proper access when I was there in August but there was a convienient gap in the fence. Great location for the Space Centre and the Waterworks. Anyone know what the story of these mooring is, as there were no signs to indicate if they are visitor or private?

Spent a few nights in the basin during August bank holiday. The canal was empty of boats but towpath was busy the whole way. Highly recommend going to the Crich Tramway Village. Take a train from Langley Mill to Alfreton then a 140 bus to the museum. Fantastic day out.

I use a webasto thermo top v to heat a medium size paddling pool for the kids. Takes about 2 hours to get warm, three hours and it's very toasty. The kids love it. Heats the water directly. It's my spare for the boat.

Also have a look on eBay there are a few sellers that seem to run businesses by reselling reconditioned units. One of those may well be able to help.

I agree with this, but when the kids were young even with a 10 minute warning we would arrive at a lock and suddenly one of them would need a poo, suddenly require food to avoid starvation or just take forever to find wellies or to put a life jacket on. So sometimes we would just sit on the landing as either myself or my wife would be faffing around trying to organise the troops. On the T&M a few years back I got abused by another boat leaving the lock for not helping as I dealt with a four year old in tears trying to put a life jacket on. I would never speak to another person like that.

The Webasto diagnostic software displays the under and over voltage inhibit and they are 9v and 16v so I can't see this being a problem unless you have utterly knackered batteries. What you say may well apply to Thermo Top C of which I have no knowledge but this is Thermo Top V and the two units I have work fine. The one on the boat for 30 minute boosts, the one I use at home with the kids paddling pool rus for 250 ish minutes then stops as it has an in built maximum run timer. However I restart it and away it goes again. You may be right but this is not my experience with TTV from Jaguars. There is a guy on ebay who has made a pcb converting the W-bus to on/off. This is what I use with the paddling pool unit so it can be started with a light switch.

The Evo 5 is a variable output of the Thermo Top V which has been fitted to many cars for many years. If you have an undersized radiator output in comparison to the heater output then the evo 5 may be better as it can power down without cycling. Although I have no idea what it's like in practice. If you are a confident diy'er then you could fit a Thermo Top V from a Jaguar (ebay ~£40) webasto fuel pump from a Land Rover Disco 3 (ebay ~£30) Mikuni 22mm marine exhaust from the Mikuni website, webasto 1533 timer and a seperate circulating pump. The 1533 timer starts the heater via W-bus but also has an on/off output which you can drive a delayed drop off relay to run the circulation pump. Delayed off to allow for webasto cool down cycle. If you buy a TTV off eBay buy one with 20cm of loom to save buying any plugs. If you need plugs go to the Disco3 forum shop as they are very resonably priced. A separate circulation pump is useful so you can combine the system with a heat exchanger on the engine skin tank or calorifier circuit so you can use the waste heat from the engine when underway. You can still use the TTV to heat the calorifier by using a motorised valve which can be operated by the webasto itself as it helpfully has an output that turns on when it has heated the water to >40 deg. (Draw a diagram and you will see the issue) Others may warn that Webastos of eBay don't work. That's not my experience I have this set up and another one to heat the kids paddling pool!. TTV from Jaguars have 9v -16v operating range. Avoid TTV from Land Rover and VW as they have on board pump control - better to have separate more powerful pump. The default plug on TTV has outputs for fuel pump and car can-bus but you can move can-bus pins to W-bus and >40 deg output. The Disco 3 forum is mine of information on this. A few terminations and you are away. The rest of the fuel system bits can be bought from Mikuni website and follow BSS guidelines. Job done. Great fun enjoy. Ah and look on ebay for the heat exchangers supplied from Poland - great quality and 1/4 of the price you have linked to above.

Nope, but the western K&A is a dump, I feel sorry for all the hire boaters. Lovely place to live, dreadful dump of a canal I think crt have given up with all the CMers, the low point a few months back was a helpful sign warning walkers to avoid straying off the towpath due to human waste in the bushes - I boat in the midlands. What is also sad is people around here think all canals are like this which is very sad.

Went for my lunchtime walk today and i came across a sinking boat. I helped with a few pumps and pleased to say it was recovered. Anyway, it looked like the boat was aground and the water level dropped so that the bilge outlet went under water, the engine compartment filled up pulling the boat over until the kitchen sink then overtopped and filled the cabin. There are a few issues here with low hull oulets and no auto bilge setup, but the boat sunk due to water through the bilge hose. Does anyone have a non return valve fitted to prevent this?