Murflynn

Travelling on the Avon between Stratford and Tewkesbury this weekend I was impressed how clean and tidy the river and the riverbanks are. And on Sunday most of the anglers hanging their long poles half way across the river pulled them in without comment as I passed, some even waving a (polite) greeting. But today I came across a team of strimmer operators near Pershore, cleaning up the angling holes, presumably on behalf of an angling club, cutting back the nettles and brambles and kicking the refuse, presumably left by previous anglers - plastic bottles and the like - into the river! Well - they weren't carrying refuse bags so I suppose that seemed the logical thing to do.

Try carpet tiles fixed with spray adhesive. It pulls off easily if you need to.

... apparently the Rotherham 1400 weren't believed either. The police didn't take their word for it. Why would the OP lie? OK the photos are inconclusive but they were not submitted as proof, only for illustration.

I love most of it but the biggest disappointment has to be Oxford which was built with its back to the Thames/Isis.

in my experience, their customer service is second to none. They refused to sell me a complete replacement contactor when they realised I had DIY skills, and sold me a set of contacts instead for a tenner.

I recently read a recommendation on this forum that the observation period for a bubble tester should be much longer than is specified in the instructions, to address this point.

The heave of water (not the wash) is approximately proportional to the ratio between the cross section of your boat and that of the canal. So if you have a deep drafted flat bottomed boat with a cross section of say 1.5sq.m. passing along a canal of say 10sq.m. the ratio is 0.15. If you have a shallow vee bottom with a cross section of say 0.8sq.m. in the same canal the ratio is 0.08, approximately half. So there will be half as much water trying to rush past your boat. Of course the effort to drive the boat under such conditions (against the apparent current) will be less for a Springer, meaning less revs, less wake, etc.

I'm sure you are aware that there is no proscribed solution in engineering standards, rather you should ensure your installation is designed to satisfy the requirements, in this case sections 7.7 and 7.8. There are clearly several options, the choice of which which will depend on your particular installation and layout. Don't think there's much to add to that.

http://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/media/180428/bss%20guide%202005%20complete%20web.pdf it's all there.

http://www.albrightinternational.com/lang/en/index.html these are used by Vetus, for example.

the other side of the coin - a heron seen feeding with pigeons on scraps of bread at the side of the Harrow Road in Kensal Town, alongside the canal. Not bothered at all by the people waiting at the bus stop 5 yards away.

up the duff ..............

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as I stated before, there will be significant voltage drop. Try and do the calculations and you will see.

if you connect the BT battery directly to the engine start battery (with appropriate isolators for each battery) the BT battery will charge in parallel with the engine battery, and they will support each other during BT running and engine start.

If you supply the BT from remote batteries, even with heavy welding cable you will suffer significant voltage drop, probably enough to cause the contactor (the heavy duty solenoid switch attached to the thruster motor) to chatter and eventually burn out the contacts, especially if the remote battery is not fully charged. The contactor will be designed to operate on 12V plus, and if you only have 12.5V under load from a remote battery you hardly have a chance Strongly recommend the battery to be fitted as close as possible, then use fairly heavy duty cable the length of the boat for charging the battery.

just realised you're all discussing the picture on the lock GATE. now I can see it too .

????? I haven't posted a picture of my boat.

But you may be missing the point. The pressure will vary depending on whether the accumulator is full of air or (nearly) full of water. You really need to empty it of water by switching the pump off and opening the taps. The pressure will then be at its lowest. Check the pressure and adjust. That seems to be working incorrectly. The volume of water should be at least half the volume of the accumulator if the pressure is set correctly. How small is your accumulator?