AndrewIC

It’s the compressor that heats the gas up, so if you don’t have a radiator on the back and can’t cool the sides, then cooling the compressor is the next best thing. I have two small fane set into the floor under the back of the fridge, blowing bilge air up onto the compressor. They are also wired through a series/parallel switch so that at night they can be connected in series and run at half(ish) speed to keep the noise down. There must be a trade off point somewhere between increased fan power consumption and decreased fridge consumption!

And a slightly greater drop on the 150.

Dudley Tunnel trip boats are operating again.

There is no law (in England, at least. Frankly I’ve lost track of what the rest of the UK are up to) requiring a person who has reasonable excuse for not wearing a face covering, where one is now required, to carry or display any kind of card or badge declaring the fact, and for a shop or service provider to discriminate against them on that basis may be contrary to equality legislation. Someone not wearing a face covering may indeed be taking the piss (are we allowed that one?), or they may have far more on their plate than rest of us have to deal with. It’s none of my business.

And decimal time!

The reason I asked about reverse was that my first Hurth failure sounds a bit like yours. The box would seemingly engage forward gear, and the prop shaft would spin at idle, but winding up the revs had little effect - the engine would speed up but the prop didn’t and the was no “oomph”. Reverse worked fine. Diagnosis was badly worn forward clutch plates. My second Hurth (actually a ZF) failed on reverse, when the prop picked up something solid in a hasty emergency stop, and stripped some of the teeth on the reverse plates. Symptom there was failure to engage reverse intermittently, with a horrible grating noise. Then I switched to a PRM

Does it work in reverse?

When I was a kid, our old VW camper van had the two Camping Gaz bottles in the engine compartment!

Get the hull and engine surveyed, make sure there’s a comfortable amount of steel between the inside and the canal, and that the engine isn’t about to fall apart. Get a new BSC done as a condition of sale, make sure its not going to explode/burst into flames/give you CO poisoning. Apart from that, pretty much everything else is cosmetic, and if you like it, you like it.

I like it. You could simplify it still further with an ATtiny and a few passives, but you’d need a programmer to load the code (an Arduino will do).

Asterite went bust! Try Blanco Favos 6s, one-and-a-half bowl, 860 x 435, or there’s a Blanco Favum around the same size if you only want a single bowl. I’m currently refitting the galley and have bought a Favos, not plumbed it in yet though! ETA: Took me ages to find anything less than 500 deep.

Water supply to the lower Sankey, including Fiddler’s Ferry yacht haven through to Spike Island (which is actually in several bunded sections) has been a by-product of the power station for decades. The power station is now closed and SSE presumably aren’t going to keep pumping water out of the goodness of their hearts. No-one locally seems to know what is going to happen to the considerable number of boats moored at both locations, or the sailing club and yard at Fiddler’s Ferry.

Just checked the drawings . I went from an HBW100 (now ZF10M), which has a drop of 62mm, to a PRM120, which (like its current successor the PRM125) has a drop of 72mm. That could have been just about taken up on the mounts, but the engine would have been waggling about right at the top of the threads, so the mounts were packed up at the bottom on steel blocks. However, the OP has an HBW125 (superseded by the ZF12M) which does indeed also have a drop of 72mm. However the lengths are different, the PRM120 is 26mm longer, mounting face to flange, so the OP would need room for that.

All the installation diagrams are available online (Hurth is now ZF). I swapped a HBW100 for a PRM120 a few years ago, and had to have the engine raised a bit.

If you start from the Hurleston end, from memory the first boundary crossing into Wales is somewhere around Whixall.

If the pubs are still shut in 3 months then most of them won't be re-opening. Along with much else.

This video shows a tear down of an A127:

Whatever the financial ins and outs, it’s a disgrace it was ever removed from Liverpool, it was ideally placed to be taken under the wing of the Maritime Museum.

Who or what defines that the BSS represents the “standards applicable” in respect of the BW Act? Is that linkage enshrined in legislation somewhere?

Was any follow up to last year’s consultation ever published, or are we still waiting?

Had double glazed from Channelglaze fitted some years ago. Yes, same problem. No, you can’t stop it.

Yikes!

Is there any more information on the nature of the damage at Figure of Three Locks?