Northernboater

That's because the thread has gone on and on unlike your boat, as you say a comedy of errors, just waiting for the next episode once you finally get the engine to work.

You can tell you spend most of your life in the house and obviously not met many boaters, as for numpty I'm not the one who bought a boat without a survey with an engine leaking fuel everywhere. I'd rather be a narrowboater comfy in the winter with the fire on and the doors open then on little GPR with the Windows covered up trying to keep warm. What's you principle source oh heating on the boat? You make a big thing about your wife's problems and to tell you the truth I'm not interested.

I think LadyG is being realistic and I think you have a lot to learn, I don.t know if your looking at this as a big adventure or are you going to be living on the boat in the near future your giving off mixed vibes as your saying you'll to be covering everything in baco-foil to insulate and you've rought'it in the back garden and you very rarely leave the house? Reality is your going to be on a 20ft plastic boat with no heating for what I see, wait till the rain starts and the winter kicks in, you'll need a bit more foil then the average Christmas Turkey uses. What heating are you going to use? You said your partner Paolo is disabled and you and your friend will get her on the boat somehow, this does not fill me with confidence that it will all end happily, you also said it has been a comedy of errors from the start and you haven't even set off on the canals yet, I think probably like LadyG thinks too it will continue to be a comedy of errors and an expensive one for the foreseeable future until you get your head out of the clouds and reality sinks in.

Please don't take this the wrong way but you sound like your going to be the Marina owners worst nightmare, you say your wife needs a wheel chair, you have a dog, you'll be living on the boat and don't leave the house much. I don't think this will be much fun and certainly not living the dream especially in the winter months. I've seen people try living on these little plastics before and within 6 month they have just become a eye sore, usually with lots of their belongings piled up around the boat and the boat being covered with a tarpaulin to keep dry. You have mooring at Aston Marina, what are the rules about using the Pontoons as a lot of Marina's require you to keep everything on the boat and to keep the walkways clear? Not much scope for outside cooking. You have to think about your neighbours as no one wants to be moored next to a boat that looks an eye sore especially a plastic as Naughty Cal probably knows.

I don't think the OP know's what he's doing or talking about, he blamed the first BSS examiner/electrician for the engine bay battery wiring, then said that there had been work done to the engine and the wires were moved when the engine/gearbox was replaced, he thinks he fitted new connections for a bilge pump. Everyone has asked questions about the original BSS examiner's credibility due to the information stated by the OP, but I imagine there has been quite a bit work done to the boat since he issued the BSS.

From the first thread you seemed to have blamed the original BSS examiner for the wiring mess and the fail of the new BSS wiring and people have called in doubt his competence as an examiner because of this. Then above you say your pretty sure the wires have been moved by an engineer extracting the gearbox and nobody thought much about it, then funny old thing it fails it's BSS. Who really is to blame for the wiring mess and the BSS failure? I would that it is you and people who have carried out work to the engine since the last BSS, especially yourself for not knowing or checking what they have done, not the original guy as it looks like his work has been altered causing the fail.

How much work have you yourself done to this since the last BSS? as you say you think you had to replace the bilge pump connection. If that was me I think I would remember. You also said the engine has been hauled backwards and forwards and the wires moved and above you say "I am not sure that anyone has done anything wrong apart from throwing me into a panic" I can't see a BSS examiner leaving it in this condition. Are you sure someone else or yourself have not caused this mess when you have been working on the engine? As a BSS examiner would his reputation and any future work at stake if he left it in this state.

Interesting programme on Free View channel 63, Community Some might of seen this before about the woman and her son, she's peddling her narrowband on the Kennet and Avon and her friends and community, CaRT seem to come over quite good with the presenters questions, the boaters not in regards of their appearance, the state of their boats and with education of their children. I don't know how recent the programme is, maybe someone on here can give a time.

Not really bothered, Oh I have one more post to my count. YeHa.

It's how you interpret it. I said "don't and never had" meaning what I said above, I'm sure Mross will get another 10 post on his count out of this LOL.

I think we have found the new MJG below. No I don't I'm talking about people who have never had a boat, been on one and have never been on a canal except to walk along the Towpath.

What like you? I doubt someone that does not own a boat or maybe never has been on one and worked the canal system has more experience then someone that has, anyone can search on the internet then post on here but owning a boat and working it is a different matter.

Other one as in the adjective, completely engrossing; compelling: Riveting

And you tighten all the connections after you have bled the fuel system. Lol.

He'll be telling them all about his Narrowboating days and comparing the Thetford C200 cassette toilet fitted to his narrowboat to the fitment on his caravan. Riveting

Where are you getting this number from? Is there a Barrus plate on there or a Yanmar? Plate?

You can post a lot or post little, the more post counts you have and if you post on every Topic even if it is irreverent to the topic the more you are experienced in boating, even if you don't have or never had a boat.

We can all wrap the new boat owners in cotton wool, but if they don't learn by their mistakes it will only cost them money.

Why, what's wrong with saying it as it is?

What like cruise it without checking your engine, then realise you have diesel spurting everywhere and confusing it with oil, sorry Try reading the full post

As I said most of us, including you, not rudeness just fact.

Do narrowboat diesel's have a ECU? The new bread of Boaters have no interest in old engines or rebuilding them every 7000hrs, we can all live in the past when engines were real engines and be mesmerized by the exhaust note, but today is today and most of the new boaters coming onto the canals don't know the difference between a BMC, Bolinder or Barrus and only describe their engines by colour, fact Yes old one's or cheap one's

Just don't buy an old plastic with an old BMC engine in it, as it will end up costing you as much as the original purchase price in maintenance and repairs. Tony you await 40 years to see if people can time their injector pump on a modern engine as easy as a BMC? By then you will be dead as will most of the people on here, if not they will have no clue what a BMC engine is or know how to set the timing. Lady G your right, stick to a modern Yanmar based engine and stay away from old engines that the old people look at through rosy glasses. It will be interesting what it costs the OP in bills to get this boat running ok? I should imagine not much less then the cost of the boat.

OK As I said above give them a ring, their Help line is 01508 488 188 and let us know what they say