Bee

for, John Deere 6100,6200 Engine Rear Bell Housing in Good Condition | eBay, This may be useful (?) there are others on E bay. Then maybe an adaptor plate to fit your potential gearbox , ASAP and no doubt others (Lancing marine in Shoreham do all sorts of stuff) Somewhere there will be a combination of parts that works but it might take a while to find them

I would also add a 5th point, that the whole structure is dependant on the political dogma of the government in power and a steadily reducing grant will cause a big and compounding increase in licence fees. It is not just economic theory that puts prices up.

Just a thought. don't know what hours Greenland wharf (dock??) operate but it might be possible to nip across the river in 'office hours' then leave from Greenland dock earlier ??? Probably not but you never know.

I've always had more success using double sided closed cell foam for windows and suchlike as long as you can get decent fixings to pull the frame down nice and flat and reasonably tight. Any sort of goo will make a right old mess and you'll be using gallons of paraffin/white spirit/fairy liquid to clean everything afterwards.

Batteries are horrible things. If only they had a lid so you could open the top and have a look to see if they were full or empty. What most of us don't realise is just how long it takes to charge a couple or three batteries. On Bee we have 2 x 110 AH batteries - or that is what they were 4 years ago, it takes 4 or 5 hours to charge them from the engine and no doubt you could squeeze a bit more in from a decent charger. We look after them and don't flatten them or they will play tricks like saying they are charged when in fact they are scrap. We now have a bit of solar (not much, just one panel of 30 watts????) and I think it is brilliant, it saves batteries from death and although it cannot power the boat it works all the daylight hours. This summer I will add another one.

25kva! That's enough to have a nice little sideline selling electric to other boats that moor nearby!!!

Thing is that you do need an adjustable heater on a boat, its chilly in the morning, cold in the evening and warm (sometimes) in the day and turning the thing on and off is not good for it. They also use an appreciable amount of 12 volt electric and that's OK if you have a good mains supply but in effect that means you are using your charger and batteries as a 240 - 12volt transformer, maybe not too good either. The perfect way to heat a boat has yet to be invented but a coal stove has possibly less disadvantages with a couple of cheap mains fan heaters if you have mains electric (Not off your inverter though!) Others will have lots of different opinions.

Problem is that if you insulate the outside your gunnels will become so narrow as to be pretty much useless and also you have the problem of how to make it waterproof at the side/top join. Having put buffalo board on the sides it would be disheartening to pull it all off again. I think you might have to insulate the inside, I used to use wood fibre board for this and it worked well as well as having one fairly OK surface that would take paint/hessian/carpet or whatever. The bit under the gunnel really must be insulated and it is awkward but it will drip constantly if you don't do it. The hull sides that have the pink stuff need to have a good 3" or as much as you can fit and then some sort of cladding on top, really you are looking at a bit of a refit.

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She was in Gloucester docks for a long time and i was told she actually was an old K&A boat.

Huh. Insurance companies. The insurers accepted the risk and it was up to them to satisfy themselves as to the condition of the thing. On that basis no insurance can be relied upon if the company can refuse to pay out if something goes wrong.

I don't really understand the picture. The pressure cap (??) on that tank(?) has a pipe going off to the right that tee's off to a vertical pipe. If that vertical pipe has coolant in it then presumably water would flow from the tank if you removed it- or if it is connected to the tank overflow then if pressure cap lifts to release pressure coolant will flow into the vertical pipe. Its all a bit puzzling and probably irrelevant to your problem but I reckon there might be a lot to be said for an air cooled engine - Good luck!

Had a similar problem a few years ago. There is a variety of bee that finds holes, lays its eggs inside and then mortars up the hole. Yup, that was the little drain from the washbasin in the loo. Must have read the boats name .