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It probably changed it into tempered glass...

It seems a reasonable request. Shareboats are typically very well maintained, repainted and blacked every year. The two shareboats I had shares in a still around. The 1992 one is now in private ownership and the 2002 one is still a shareboat. Neither were ever surveyed in the time I was a shareholder (1992-2013).

With one of those it would probably stop on a sixpence...

When I eat sandwiches whilst cruising, rather than stopping and mooring to eat, I call it "lunch on the prop".

You may need to comply with the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001 if the land you intend to put the tank on is not yours, i.e it is owned by a business such as a marina. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2954/contents/made

Blimey an 8 wheel drive Land Rover. You don't see many of them about...

I used a bowline on mine because even if the bank is always at the same height (unusual even on the same canal) the height between hand rail and water will vary because of the trim of the boat, and it is helpful sometimes to move the fenders to provide protection at a specific point.

Up until 1980, when BT adopted VRSLA batteries, they used to use large open 2 volt cells as shown in the attached photo. These cells had replaceable plates, which when they failed, were cut from the group bar and a new one lead welded in it's place.

For what it is worth, BT used vaseline to dress battery connections and they were (maybe still are) the biggest user of lead acid batteries in Europe.

To be fair, you being a continuous cruiser in every sense of the phrase, it does give you a very large back yard...

That's inflation for you!

As a first course of action with tiny leaks I always use Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure. https://captaintolley.com/ If it doesn't work, you have wasted about £10, if it does work it has saved you a lot of time, effort ad cost.