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My Beta 43 refused to stop when the stop button was pressed. A squirt of contact cleaner on the stop button contacts cured it.

The wife once bought me a bottle of Brew Dog gluten free beer*. It brought me out in hives, so I must be allergic to whatever they do to it to make it gluten free. * I use the term beer loosely in this case.

Well after 52 years boating it finally happened. I fell in (well a partial immersion) whilst washing the boat. I've been in before voluntarily, but this time I slipped whilst getting off the foredeck. No damage done except to my pride.

Most modern antifreezes taste very bitter as they have a substance called "Bitrex" added to.discourage accidental injestion by humans and animals. https://www.atamanchemicals.com/bitrex_u30894/#:~:text=Bitrex is used in products like engine coolant and antifreeze,ingestion by humans or animals.

Sounds like you know your onions...

Automatic fire extinguishing systems for racing/rally cars are FIA approved and not too expensive. They would be ideal for an enclosed engine hole typically found in a boat. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364699553380?campid=5339022110&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&toolid=10050&customid=CjwKCAjwktO_BhBrEiwAV70jXnq_cEL_x-eDgJ--v2Qd_28-3q4Zxqj8MzTYsTWUMyv6z5t-Y1QZkhoCzYoQAvD_BwE&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&customid=CjwKCAjwktO_BhBrEiwAV70jXnq_cEL_x-eDgJ--v2Qd_28-3q4Zxqj8MzTYsTWUMyv6z5t-Y1QZkhoCzYoQAvD_BwE&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwktO_BhBrEiwAV70jXnq_cEL_x-eDgJ--v2Qd_28-3q4Zxqj8MzTYsTWUMyv6z5t-Y1QZkhoCzYoQAvD_BwE They comprise an extinguisher connected to a sealed plastic tube. When the flames melt a hole in the plastic tube the extinguishant escapes and is directed to the seat of the flames, alternatively they can be manually operated by a pull cord. That said, engine fires in canal boats are vanishingly rare, hence they are not required by the RCD or BSS.

If a CRT volockie sinks your boat due to their incompetence, then CRT will be liable and have the funds available to pay up. If a privateer volockie does the same, then he probably wont have insurance or the funding. Not an issue if you have fully comp insurance but if you only have third party then you may have lost your boat permanently.

The Coventry is pretty busy, a boat every few minutes since the sun came out recently.

He didn't mention what the 26.6 were, probably picovolts...

Is that a samosa gently warming up in the top right hand corner of your trivet?

True, it really buggers up the pumps...

I remember @peterboat arguing that lithium batteries were readily recyclable, so I would send them to him...

My EoG mooring terms specifically exclude sub letting, or indeed living on the boat.

Yes it is pricey, but 11 years on I'm still suffering the trauma of draining, flushing and changing my antifreeze. The price for the Ankorsol every couple of years works out to about the same as changing the Ford 10 year stuff every 10 years without the stress of draining, flushing and refilling and I'm happy with that.

All antifreezes comprise of two components, antifreeze (usually glycol) to prevent it freezing and corrosion inhibitors. The antifreeze component lasts indefinitely (although it will be weakened by dilution if you continually make up losses with water. The corrosion inhibitors get used up as they combat corrosion. In my experience a 50% mix of Ford 10 year antifreeze does what it says on the tin, but after 10 years the corrosion inhibitor will be all but used up. The Morris Ankorsol simply replaces the lost corrosion inhibitors, but unlike the Ford corrosion inhibitors only lasts 2 years, so must be replaced at that interval if you want to prevent corrosion. It is a lot easier to add Ankorsol (at a rate of 2% of system volume) than it is to drain and replace all of the antifreeze in the system, 45 litres in the case of my boat.

But do they "burn"? That's acorny joke...

I have the same, but to be absolutely sure I never end up with two empty bottles, I valve off the full one that is not in use and hang an "in use" label around the other. When it is empty I open the valve on the unused full one, which causes the auto change valve to change over, then transfer the "in use" label to it and then hang an "empty" label on the now empty one to remind me to replace it before the other one runs out.

Bloody Autowrong

It is just common sense really.

I recall my grandparents taking me on a boating holiday around 1960 in a boat similar to that. Hired from Bantams on the River Cam.

Indeed, the best advice for using more than one inverter on a boat is to make sure any sockets fed from different inverters are at least six feet (more than an arm span) apart.

Could be, as I've only had it happen when posting from home. I did recently have phone and Internet problems, caused by the overhead cable to my house having a fault in it. Since Open reach fixed that I've not had any multiple posts.