Bee

That little copper tube coming out just below the cap is a sort of overflow and the top of the heat exchanger looks wet to me suggesting that you could be overfilling it as Tony says in his reply.

Well, if that window leaks then my choice would be to leave it in situ but glue with contact adhesive a wooden frame surrounding the existing frame to the outside of the cabin and cut perspex from B&Q to fit over that frame then screw another outer frame right through the perspex into the first frame. That would stop the leaks, provide a bit of double glazing and let light into the boat - make a window over the window in fact. You would not need to make more holes in the boat anything drastic or live in a cave. Get hold of some sort of thick curtain material and it would be warm at night but that cooker will have to be moved somewhere safer and ventilated.

Personally i would find out what fees Sharpness marina charge, The Severn is not a particularly interesting waterway (in my opinion anyway) but the Gloucester and Sharpness is. Might not be a bad place to CC from. The flooding aspect of the Severn is a real fear.

We are fortunate, our dog has pretty much every walk off its lead from start to finish but we live in a rural area. if a dog is always on a lead it really doesn't get the chance to become properly socialised with dogs and people and in my experience can lead to unpredictable behaviour which nobody wants.

This is still a subject that has differing views. For example overplating is frequently carried out on areas of the hull that have suffered- usually from heavy pitting. In my view this is perfectly OK but some welders just cannot weld overhead and there are some pretty poor repairs going around. Some people would not entertain having overplating on a boat but anything over 30 years old is likely to be less than perfect if you look carefully enough. We are still at a transition stage so far as paint is concerned as well. The most important boat maintenance is to keep the underwater parts painted, bare steel will corrode. Old fashioned bitumen is not as good as epoxy coatings but its better than nothing. Newer boats will hopefully be epoxied. Good luck

If a surveyor cannot get under the boat to inspect the bottom then it really is not worth having it surveyed. There is a reason that there is an industry re bottoming narrowboats and that is because the bottom corrodes. Also, if it is at all possible then the inside surface needs to be checked as that will corrode really badly if it is wet.

Stone the crows I think the chances of getting that apart are not great. It is almost certainly some sort of standard pipe fitting which should be easy enough to find in your local plumbers merchant or even somewhere on the internet.

There was a time before television (yes really) and In this house at least we are slowly approaching a time after television. Being an old git and getting grumpier by the day I no longer have the patience to watch anything with adverts. That kid who is whinging about needing the Fairy bottle to be empty so he can make a space ship needs to be sent to bed with no supper and those women discussing some sort of absorbent pants liners need to get a life. Anyway, more seriously, none of my grown up offspring really watch telly these days, one uses it for kids programmes for his family and watches Al Jazeera for the news, the other two really only use it as a screen for games. On the boat with limited electricity and the need to find the satellite every time we move the thing our viewing drops to virtually zero, news a couple of times a week but mostly Radio 2, 5 and 6. Radio 4 we can get on the normal radio till well South of Paris.

If the engine lives under some sort of deck with boards over it I would imagine there will be plenty of ventilation but yes, there should be good air flow to the air filter at least. Bee has its engine below the wheelhouse floor amidships so potentially awful ventilation but she has a ducted vent from the deck to the air filter and also a ducted blower fan to the outside. Whilst we are talking ventilation the batteries live in a box in the boat and that is vented from the top of the box to a separate vent via yet more ducting.