Naughty Cal

Not necessarily.

How do you know that?

Or they were just wrong in the first place.

Indeed they do. York Marina at Naburn is another example with very few if any narrowboats on their berths.

In our marina there are 250 berths. 10 or so of which are for narrowboats the rest are cruisers of varying sizes. That doesn't count the 150 odd houses with their own moorings, 95% of which are occupied by cruisers.

The bodyshop where Liam works are finding this. They lost a good panel beater earlier this year and have just not been able to find a suitable replacement who has the right skills and quality of work. You don't want and can't have muppets working on expensive cars.

Yes. I'm a Civil Engineer.

So why the lack of knowledge of material properties? ETA: My OH, Liam, is a panel beater of 24 years. He has to have a knowledge of material properties and how they will behave to do his job properly. But he is a "real" panel beater not a strip and fitter

Anyone who isn't a narrowboat owner in this case.

You are clearly not from an engineering background

Neither do I.

There is a very heavy bias towards narrowboats and canals only in all of their statements. Doesn't represent me, or a large swathe of boat owners on CRT waters, in the slightest.

I don't feel that any of those candidates will fully represent us. We won't be using our vote.

The anodes are a more noble alloy than the drive. ETA: The benefit is that they protect the drive and last us longer then the magnesium anodes. As we spend 4-6 weeks in salt water each year the magnesium anodes needed changing every 6 months. Zincs wouldn't protect the drive in fresh water. The aluminium anodes protect the drive in fresh, brackish and salt water and last us a couple of years before they need changing. And as an added bonus they are slightly cheaper then the magnesium and zinc anodes although this isn't a major concern so long as they are doing their job which they clearly are as we stripped the drive back to bare metal last year and there were no signs of corrosion.

Blimey. How many would you feed with a 6.5 litre pot? The 3.5 litre pot feeds four!

Ah. Was definitely £14.50 on Monday. Not sure what day they change their offers.

Lovely boat Spider T. We had the guided tour a few years back when we were at Keadby for the evening.

Yes. They are aluminium. Magnesium don't last us a season as we spend some of the year in salt water. Zinc don't protect in fresh water so we have switched to aluminium. http://www.solentanodes.co.uk/collections/aluminium-volvo-anodes http://www.solentanodes.co.uk/pages/zinc-aluminium-or-magnesium-anode

They had them online as well I believe. We have found that the new one cooks hotter than the Tesco one.

Our drive is aluminium and has two aluminium anodes fitted.

Agreed. We have been out in our GRP cruiser and our old GRP dinghy in the ice. Neither of which sustained any damage.

I have. We lent our handheld GPS to a friend on his narrowboat. He was disappointed with the outcome.

Didn't think of that. Unpowered planing vessel

I also know it doesn't apply to unpowered vessels but don't know the reasons why.