magnetman

Anyway leaving the kids money or land just complicates things and puts conflict into their lives. Its agro. I know about this as I come from a moneyed family. My approach is to just spend it if I am given it. This means there ends up being none left but the amount of shit people with money have to go through is unbelievable. It wrecks families, screws up health and is generally a real nuisance. Obviously people without this burden don't know this but would like to find out. Liam Payne had £45 million quid. I don't feel sorry for anyone who has to pay a bit of tax. If you have enough money to be paying tax then what is the problem? Some people live under bridges. If money and land is ruling your life that much that you have to kill yourself then get on with it. Bye bye. Its not the end of the world if someone kills themselves. Its just one less person to deal with and probably quite an awkward one going forwards. Land and money is agro. Yes we all need a bit of money to survive and basic shelter but land is just grief. Constant unyielding grief and a nuisance. So yeah!

The header tank is cast aluminium and part of the engine. It looks similar to the header tanks on my BMC 1.5D engines. I thought it was a heat exchanger but it seems a bit small. My own Perkins P4 has a header tank on the engine but is direct cooled via a skin tank with one pump and a dry exhaust. But that is a marinised industrial unit which was probably radiator cooled not a marine engine.

The header tank looks too small to be a heat exchanger. I expect it was originally direct cooled on a keel cooler but someone has modified it to have a wet exhaust. Jabsco pump. It seems to just be rather a terrible nackered and bodged piece of rubbish so hopefully he will be able to get his money back. It might not be an Elysian. I don't know actually. The engine was apparently in a broads cruiser originally.

Anyway. I'm sure a lot of people who live on their Boats secretly dream of having a nice little freehold plot. I do sometimes but always revert to the general rule which is land-conflict-agro-don't go there. The great thing about living on a Boat, as long as it is mobile, is that one can avoid this basic human interaction problem. A lot of people may erroneously think that religion causes the wars but it actually doesn't. It is land and the use thereof which causes all human conflicts. Big (intercontinental wars) and small (neighbour conflicts). So yeah. The mooring plot is lovely, it floods and in summer it is terrifically wonderful but it will cause conflict one way or another. Its just how it is and part of the reason why I am going to sail around the worlds in a sloop.

Quite.

I used to sometimes take a fence for firewood when they were decommissioning the old oak ones and putting in softwood and wire. The old posts and rails were lovely on the fire.

Definitely Mr John

The oil level has gone down and there is a lot of oil in bilge. I wonder about frost damage. The old git (79) has been on Boats since the 60s but he is getting MCI and denies it. I don't like the idea of someone who he knows and trusts pulling a fast one. Its rude. The engine is nackered. its a non original engine. The engine was in a broads cruiser originally. I think the Boat is an Elysian.

a friend unwisely bought a broads cruiser from someone he knows (marine industry trader on the Thames) and the 4/107 in it has significant issues. The first major fault I spotted was it had been repainted with a rattle can. Not a good sign. Anyway we ran it for a while and firstly it pumps water out of the header tank overflow (cap spring and seal are fine and also out of a small gap at the bottom of the bellhousing bolts on. It is a direct cooled engine not heat exchanger. It also dumps oil and there is condensation on the oil filler. My friend is an old git and I don't appreciate him getting done over by someone he knows who is also trading as a marine engineer. He is going to have a word but if this is not resolved I will happily name the individual on here as this is rude. This sounds like head gasket and also possibly a core plug? Is there a core plug somewhere on the back end near where the gearbox bolts on ? I know also the 107 has wet liners so presumably there is a seal of some sort. Photo of the stream of water coming out of the bellhousing. Looks like emulsion to me. Engine runs perfectly well no oil in exhaust and plenty of water coming out the back (Jabsco impeller has been replaced). Gearbox oil is clean. Any ideas? Frost damage? Major overheating leading to head gasket failure? internal corrosion taking out a core plug? It was on the broads and I wondered if the water there might be a bit salty. We are not going to run it as oil mixed with water will take out the bearings rapidly.

10mm copper pipe adapted into the standpipe above flood levelwith a valve on the end by the Boat. Could be routed around bends with no connectors anywhere. Copper is hygeinic and durable and no chance of porosity. No hurry to fill the tank if one is there all the time anyway. Usually with standard hoses and taps there is some sort of time constraint. If it is a shared tap then let others do what they want to do but IF allowed I would definitely do it like that. The mooring I had was CRT owned with modifications not allowed but if one were installing the thing oneself it gives options to do it in a different way.

Maybe the level below is or was subject to surges and this worked as an accumulator to prevent water going over the sides when the lock is empty with the guillotine gate open. A great big pressure relief valve.

Same on the Thames. Its been going on for a while and includes hire and privately owned vessels. Most people want day Boats.

Increasing the number of day hire Boats from 6 to 8 does not look like a troubled company. Day hire, if the demand is there, is going to be much easier and fewer staff needed.

Yes I think there was an incident with a garden pond so it applies to houses as well. More or less impossible to enforce of course. It is interesting to consider the implications for the land owner if there was a contamination incident leading to issues with public health. Is it the installer who is responsible or the land owner. I would think the land owner. Quite recently the Environment Agency removed hoses from bulk water supplies and fitted silly non return overflow lab tap hardware which made taps almost unusable. I think it was an instruction from the WRAS as mentioned above which caused this to happen. The CRT put red stickers on their (residential and non residential) mooring services bollards instructing Boat owners to always remove the hose after use. If self installing from a main feed remote from the mooring site then perhaps liability changes. It still seems more likely the land owner would be liable but this particular mooring appears to be rather interesting as they will not make the pontoons safe or install a water supply. Seems odd.

Yes when I was occupying a residential mooring a letter arrived in the wrong letterbox with a threat of legal action against on of the neighbouring Boats because they had a hose permanently connected. The water board do take this kind of thing very seriously. I was told by someone that occasionally maintenance work at pumping stations can cause a negative pressure to occur at the faucet. Don't know if it is true.

He has already stated in the thread that he is not looking for a direct mains water connection to the Boat. He wants to regularly fill the onboard water tank while the Boat is moored in a fixed location.

No. The water tank and pump is the equivalent of the battery and can supply the load. The thin bore tube is the trickle charger. Very similar in principle to a bowthruster arrangement charger by a trickle charger. The shower is fed by the pump drawing water from the onboard tank! He's looking at filling a tank not providing a direct feed to the services on the Boat.

Looking back at the OP he says its a 25m line of hose needed. So how much water would come out of an 8mm pipe? 100ml a minute? If it was that much then that is 6 litres per hour = 144 litres a day...