Bacchus

Just going to spend a penny quid...

You should be able to replace the cigarette lighter socket with a round-pin plug connected to 12V. That's exactly what I did on my mobicool coolbox

On this day... bless 'em. Coots are very good parents until their offspring are adolescent, then if the offspring stick around the parents will peck them to death. I think we yumans could be more coot (c:

Interesting. I have had the same email, and it has reminded me that I had another login to this forum, historically It might be a bannable offence to have multiple logins - I hope not, genuine mistake - but it was a bit weird to get the 'reset your password' email for a decade old ID. Is there a big hack thing happening?

You just need to give it a bit of welly...

Fill the aperture with celotex and board over on the inside, and put fake shutters on the outside? Should look all right both inside and out (ok, shutters on a narrow boat might be a bit odd, but I see them going past with fake wheelbarrows and gaily-painted watering cans...), would remain weatherproof, and would be reversible if you (or a future owner) change your mind.

It's to make them look as if they're going faster.

I think on a little boat like yours a new vest and a can of Ralgex might be your best bet? You certainly won't have room for a squirrel onboard (if that's your thing), and don't take out any lockers to fit a stove - think of your crew and fill the lockers with beer you selfish ******* (c:

Known as a schmutzedecke. An essential part of @magnetman 's slow sand filter which you will find in many commercial water-treatment works

I have asked EA how they equate all the extra plastic with "Environment" and received a reply yesterday from me Their response "The health, safety and wellbeing of our customers and staff remains our highest priority and outweighs other considerations" I suppose means "bog off, we've made a decision and you're too puny to question it" (c: I have now asked the questions

I have just replaced one in my van with exactly the same issue - the new one worked properly when I set it all up to test it, but did what you describe when screwed home. I discovered that the connectors have tapered threads - I had given the filter a tiny turn to facilitate visual inspection. No leaks, but it was sucking in air which caused the lower intensity hum that you describe...

That sounds like a good idea. I inadvertently sent a text to a friend this morning in response to her suggestion of sitting outside a pub this evening, warning her that there has been a frost every night, and it might be a bit nipple...

Spelling is important to me, as is grammar, but then I am fortunate to have had a good education. Not everyone is, and not everyone learned English as their first language. Anything in the public domain -- signs, books, news articles, etc. -- should obey the rules of spelling and grammar, but it doesn't make someone a lesser person if they can't, any more than it would make them a lesser person for having a big nose or sticky out ears. winding or winding - to wind (rhyming with inn) as a verb means to burp a baby or forcefully eject air from the lungs making it difficult to breathe. To wind (rhyming with wine) means to turn. A narrow-boaty friend says "winding holes" (to rhyme with inn), I think he's talking shite (to rhyme with fight)...

Nasty things batteries. I have heard of this sort of thing happening, but didn't expect it to happen to mine! I went straight to Aldi and got a couple of tubs of bicarbonate of soda, and have washed the surrounding area with a few gallons of water. The REALLY scary thing is that it will have splashed over the adjacent 400 litre diesel tank... I can't see any signs of damage, but will monitor it closely Trouble with leisure boats is that one doesn't watch the batteries quite as closely as perhaps one should. It was the cranking battery that went pop, and they don't show the signs of fatigue perhaps as much. I blame myself (I took "maintenance free" a bit too literally). I think things could have been worse (I could have been peering into the battery box wondering what the smell was...!)

Out of interest, I left my batteries on a trickle charge for the last couple of weeks to make sure they are in good condition for "allowed out" day. I went down to check them this morning, and the cranking battery was... well... not sure how smart my smart charger is. I think I may need to reduce the charge rate a smidgeon:-

I had a Princess 25 with that sort of arrangement @Telstar - the table leg was telescopic and there was a supporting lip on sofa part something like this (stock pic lifted from Jones' Boatyard, I hope that is ok...)

Thanks @Paringa - for some reason the EA don't seem to have shared this information with me, despite the eight hundred quid I give them every year... I could have looked pretty stupid turning up at a water point, as I have done for the last thirty years, and finding no hose, or not being able to use the collapsible one I carry for emergencies. There are approximately 15,000 boats registered for use on the upper Thames, if each one now has to carry its own, special, 7m hose, that creates a requirement for an additional 105km of plastic hose (mostly to be used once or twice a year). In what way does that put "environment" in "Environment Agency", I wonder?

Hi @Jonkx - I kinda hope never to use them because that would mean I was out on the water at night with an electrical failure, but they certainly seem very bright, and the plastic baffles will provide the required arc of visibility. I bought some replacement bulbs from the same place - LEDs manufactured to fit common marine fittings in downlighters etc. which I am certainly very happy with! Remove the old incandescents, replace them with the LEDs, job done. Incandescents as spares in the locker with the nav lights (c: