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That's OK for the first night, but they are going for a week.

Yes lots have done DIY. Some are better than professional installations, some are a fast route to suicide by asphyxiation. How good are your practical skills - would you literally risk your life on being able to do it correctly? If so, go for it. If not, get it done correctly. Oh, and welcome to the forum!

right thing to do is free it up so it does rise before your home sinks. Or untie or cut free said floating home before it heels over far enough to flood and sink.

Now I'm confused. Just put the towel rail on the return pipe not the flow/feed from the engine, surely. You are intending to have a flow and return between the calorifier and the engine aren't you?!

I think he's just converted your tons of diesel into litres at a rate of 1:1000.

No, that's fine, but as you hadn't provided that information earlier some people took a guess and warned you of the issue. If your panels Voc was 30V then three would be fine in series but 4 could cook the controller.

Best coverage means less dead spots over the whole network in this case. If you never know where you are going to be moored 3 days from now that's quite important. If you can get a good signal when and where you need it on any of the networks, then that will be fine for your usage.

"With your shield or on it, son."

A good fabricator with a steady hand and a box of cast iron welding rods? I don't know how successful it would be, but it might be worth asking the question as it's looking quite poorly otherwise. Has anyone else tried this on an old Epping?

At least he has finally come round to admitting it is "I want to pay a grand less a year to moor in one specific marina" rather than the "great crusade for justice for the downtrodden masses" he used to pretend it was.

I have seen a few real locks where the balance beams have fallen off like that ... Well it would be!

Yes. You will never get more than 30A out of the panels, as the controller will limit it, but you are unlikely to get anything like that much most of the time in the UK. If we have a crazy hot summer and you are worried about it, you can always unplug the 4th panel, but you won't need to. To add: when it's charging from solar, your battery voltage will be around 14V anyway, not 12V nominal. 400W / 14 V ~= 28.6 A anyway

Use it. See the linked document that discusses bringing the penalties in line with using red in a car - seizure of the vehicle, £250 fine per occurrence, have to pay the extra duty + penalties and in very severe cases unlimited fines and/or jail time.

Nice. I do like a boat with a spiral staircase - mine has two, but they are not quite that posh!