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? Snaygill - depends upon how many hire boats are on port or/and traffic around dry dock entrance. There is actually a winding hole just past br182a - not shown on all maps. Skipton - Springs Branch junction is OK but usually far too many gongoozlers. Made a twit of myself there a couple of days ago. Too many stray boats moored in the junction and I lost sight of my bow - hey-ho!

Probably already well known locally but .... Towpath side bank near Br 181 and opposite the marked winding hole has collapsed/subsided. Presumably to avoid further damage via prop wash from vessels winding, someone has kindly dumped a load of large rocks into the apex of the winding hole and 'protected' the rocks with wooden stakes. It may still be possible to wind shorter boats in the gaps to the sides of the rock pile - good luck!!

You can now spot Canal World members. They are the ones standing on the towpath with a little notebook and pencil taking down boat registration numbers. Well, those trains move too bloody fast these days!!

Do what I did when I first bought diesel - just took the registration plate into the office with me. Seemples! (Hmm. Maybe not so seemples if the number is painted on the side of the boat 🙄.)

Many moons ago I took back rust patches and applied a red oxide (can't recall source) - ran out half way along so stopped off at a convenient DIY store and bought enough to finish the job. Finished off with a couple of coats of bobbly paint from a well known manuf. Over the next couple of seasons large patches of the latter half just 'fell off' - literally! The front remained largely intact. Square one - cleaned back patches and keyed the whole roof. Exterior metal paint from a DIY store. Two coats rollered on. Still looking immaculate a good year on. Top tip: start at the front and work backwards - never look behind you - too depressing. Just stop painting when you fall off the back of the roof 🙄.

I hope you are wrong. Smell was my original concern. Comments above suggest I shouldn't worry. I suppose if I do it once and I'm wrong I've got plenty of doors and hatches I can open. 🥺🥴😟🤢🤧

Hmmm! Many thanks for your comments and experience - somewhat to my surprise you reinforce my bone idle proposal. Not sure I accept David's comment about pump-outs - I would have thought they have a deal more complicated plum-bing between bowl and tank than my 'dump it and chuck it' setup. I always use an additive so should be protected to an extent by that and would only be leaving unemptied during the season and not over Winter. So, thanks guys - the jury strikes again!

Any thoughts on why that should happen? I was thinking that, with the 'flap' in the closed position, the cassette should be effectively sealed so no exit by water vapour (sludgification) or odour. Would only be left for a couple of/few weeks and in neutral or warmish weather. Sits in its cupboard on the boat centre line. Would cassette contents be desludgified by joggling on the way to be tipped?

Every time I go home from the boat, I empty and rinse the cassette, regardless of volume and specification of contents. I got to thinking that, when cruising, we often run with a filled cassette sitting on the bathroom floor while we look out for a disposal. So, would there be any practical problem in leaving a partially filled cassette in situ with the boat unoccupied. What does the jury think - practical or aesthetic issues? 🙄🤔☹️. Any experience. Would weather forecast influence your view?

Intrigued, whilst looking at Webasto products for water/cabin heating, to see that they also offer an AC system although this seems to be aimed mainly at lumpy water plastic boats. Looks like parallel technology which could work on a narra.

Brucie bonus: piccies of the offending article from 2011 (how sad it that??) - checkout 10:00 o'clock and 02:00 o'clock round the black plug at the top of the second piccie:

Long time ago when moving my new (to me) boat from broker to marina, I had similar. How does your fuel get from A to B? Eventual solution for me involved the fuel pump. When split, there is what I can only describe as a transparent 'plastic' diaphragm between the top and bottom halves. Fuel is pumped by flexing the semi-rigid diaphragm - fuel into bottom chamber, through non-return valve and out top. There was an almost invisible crack in the diaphragm. When fuel level in the tank was high, it was not a major problem but as the fuel level fell and the pump had to 'work', the pump could not develop enough 'suck'/'push'=fuel starvation. Luckily, RCR sent a proper engineer who wanted to understand the problem as well as just replacing the faulty pump. Barrus Shire.

Has anyone had the same experience as us with a 2928? Modified as described with a manual switch. It has a quiet life over Winter with gas and 12v turned off. Over the last three or four Springs it has been non-operational ie ensure gas (light the hob to purge gas lines) and turn on 12v (prove power to top terminal block). It will not light or even spark. Has been remedied a couple of times but that involved changing out the spark generator box - they are becoming very difficult to source. So why should a sealed box not sit happily in a cold atmosphere over Winter? Would there be any mileage in disconnecting and taking it home over Winter?

Sorry but the Alde Comfort range is very poorly designed. The space behind the control box flap is simply not big enough for a glass, wine or a short! Even with the front cover panels removed, no suitable horizontal surface. Need to take an extended break when lighting by leaving your glass somewhere safe 🍷🍺🍸.

When you press down and turn the black knob, it does two things. Turns on a supply of gas to the burner and operates that microswitch. If you mess around with the controls enough you will eventually break off the activating cam. We've all done it!! Buy a new one or do what the rest of us did. Track and extend the wires on the switch itself. Mount a small switch on the plastic control box - either a 'make/break switch' or a 'hold to contact'. You just need an extra hand - one for the knob plus one for the switch.

The lifeboats illustrated do seem to offer a solution to the perennial problem of finding a slipway to launch from ......

Ascended Bingley 5 a few years back and answered cri de coeur to retrieve the corpse of a cat which had fallen in. Performed some inelligant and clumsy manoeuvres to push the deceased towards the bank/cafe. Managed to get a better look at the 'poor thing'. "Excuse me - did your cat have webbed feet and feathers?"

Moored in the middle of Skipton (derived from 'sheep town', apparently) a couple of years back and observed a deceased lamb float quietly past. Must have come a fair distance to make the centre of town on the gentle current, presumably caused by the operation of Bingley 5. Didn't mention it to the sensitive crew!

Don't complain - at least he had the headlights on so he didn't run over any fish.

I'm NOT a user/owner - I have NO direct experience but one comment you make got me twitched. I watch reports about Webs and similar and I thought the big no-no was the use of an exhaust with a condensate drain down hole. Is that not a road vehicle option - CO poisoning an option! Or have I misunderstood?

To an extent, the younger generation are fortunate. The image of Raymond Baxter presenting an item on TW dressed in string vest and pants is still burned on my memory 🥺.

But, there's a lock at the end of the canal isn't there? You can't have your fenders down!! Have you learned nothing reading this forum!!?

No particular motive - just that, to me, you highlighted the importance of -1 and -2 and the link to BSS. Helped ma.

According to the box, the ones for sale in my local Lidl are dash-1s with pictograms on the box suggesting it is unsuitable for anything that moves ie yacht, caravan or mobilome. Hey-ho! Better luck next time (they've got a stove fan, though!!!)

Ooooooooooh!! assumed that was moulded plastic - yes, its rubber. Will investigate that further although the 'catch' feels like it is between the circumference of the blade mounting rather than the spindle. Yeah! - first port of call. Very helpful to the extent of saying 'no way, Jose'. Hey-ho!