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Sea Dog

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Sea Dog last won the day on November 14 2020

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    Chartered Engineer, RN (Rtd)
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    Autherley Junction

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  1. This post cannot be displayed because it is in a forum which requires at least 10 posts to view.
  2. The cordless one my son bought works on either a pick up from a container (or canal if you're on one and brave enough I suppose) or connected to a mains fed hose. As I said, it was bought for use in a hosepipe ban. It's more powerful when connected to a mains pressure hose, but perhaps that extra power is unnecessary or even undesirable for our application.
  3. Have you considered a cordless one? My son bought one from Screwfix or Toolstation for around £100 during a long hose pipe ban in Devon. Using it with a mains water pressure connection isn't far off a low end Karcher performance wise, but is a little more gentle sucking from a bucket. This might be much more suitable for boat use, both for freedom from mains electricity and mains water requirement and by being kinder to softer boat paintwork, window seals, canvas, etc. Haven't tried it myself yet, but it's on my to do list for spring.
  4. Well, it was drawing 2'8" on Christmas Eve, so then it's the holiday closedown period. Perhaps it was drawing 3'8" on Christmas Day, 4'8" on boxing day, etc, so when the OP next went to see it, he thought it had been sold as it had gone?
  5. Don't poke the bear I'd say. It being "sorted out" is unlikely to be to our benefit.
  6. Mildew I believe. If anyone has got out the black stains it leaves I suspect lots of boatists would like to hear how they did it.
  7. The ones sold by Anne Summers?
  8. Well, to be fair to Mr Ford, he probably assumed owners of electric slippers wouldn't want to pay more for a vehicle with an unnecessary supplementary heater.
  9. I have a flue brush, whether on not it's similar I don't know. Anyway, it's well old now, still in good nick and seems to do a reasonable job. Recently had the 15 year old flue out to replace the collar and there was no significant build up. That said, I burn only smokeless solid fuel and don't suffer from tar, which might be the difference. Actually, if it becomes necessary to follow rules and start burning fully seasoned "ready to burn" approved logs, it's probably worth considering switching to solid fuel, which stays in longer and also takes up less storage space.
  10. My Keis 12v motorcycle heated waistcoat certainly works a treat when I steer the boat in winter.
  11. Same in the Tour de Yorkshire, only it's the fish and chips wrapped in the newspaper that keep you warm...
  12. In my defence, I bought drinks and evening meals there so I did give it a fair crack of the whip!
  13. Seems entirely reasonable to me. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't awful - it just wasn't a place I'd be interested in using if I stopped near it l again. ETA. It was September the 13th, so maybe being "black Wednesday" it was an off-night!
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