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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:

I have just taken delivery of a set of these "emergency" LED nav lights -- https://boatlamps.co.uk/collections/navigation-light-fixtures-incandescent/products/emergency-navigation-battery-powered-led-lights-set-of-3 I have bolted little countersunk ring-magnets (these) to the plastic backing plates so that I can pop them on the side of the boat if necessary (I have permanently fixed nav-lights, but belt and braces on tidal waters...)

To be fair, if I am off for a while I usually carry a few extras - in particular a couple of extra long ones; too long for general use, but "you never know when you might need them" (I never have) I am perhaps a little spoilt in that I can see the boat on its home mooring from the bedroom. And the sitting room... and the study. Come to think of it, the dining room and kitchen too... (c: I kinda meant manky - worn or frayed should really go in the skip be recycled (can you recycle ropes?).

I think you would have to be a very special kind of person to use two sets of warps whilst out cruising. As many have said - permanently rigged lines on the home mooring (I should think nearly always cruising lines which have aged in one way or another), and a set of cruising lines which shoul be in reasonably good condition for ease of throwing etc. The cruising lines may get fouled on lock walls, but they can, as @Ray T mentioned, easily be washed. The need to have clean lines when moored up for the night might help you to find a bit of peace and tranquillity of course, because anyone seeing you swap them over would give you a wide berth (c:

Excellent. I love the Fury's - so much space for a towable boat. Those engines would scare me though; I had a single one (on the same 270 outdrive) in a Princess 25 a few years ago - hated the damp which is a bit of a drawback in a boat...

On the floor, like normal...

Now that's how to roll out a vaccine... A friend of mine did say, put the vaccine in beer, open the pubs, and the whole country will be done in a week (c:

It all depends on how you use the vehicle. I would be tempted to see whether it's a problem first. Either do a full power audit, or just use the thing - suck it and see. On my old Hymer I had a gas fridge, a single 80AH house battery (you don't say what size yours will be, size does make a difference whatever you've been told...), old fashioned split-charge relay, incandescent lights, and no solar; never had an issue, but we used to use it for touring. Never free-camped anywhere for more than one or two nights - if it was going to be longer than that we would generally use a site for the facilities so had hook-up. The only draw really was the lights. Laptops, cameras, phones etc. charged during the day's driving. On the mighty Nissan I have two 120AH AGMs (deeper cycle), LED lighting, but a 12v fridge (mobicool cold box - c. 30AH/day in hot weather). Again I will rarely stay for more than one or two nights in one place and have never dropped below 50% SOC even using a laptop all day whilst parked up. I fitted a Ring B2B charger in the Nissan (because it has a "smart" alternator) which is a brilliant bit of kit - fit and forget (fit, test, and forget...) - and has a separate input for solar/other. I have just bought a 200W panel from eBay, but that will go in the boot rather than permanently on the roof so I can top up if necessary (and put the panel in the sun but park in the shade!) I genuinely suspect that you will have enough for "leisure" use and wouldn't worry about it. Your payload is really small (two adults, pots and pans, 70l of water, 70l of diesel, a couple of mountain bikes... soon adds up!), and batteries are heavy. If you go away in winter it is unlikely that you will be free-camping without facilities for long, even skiing a lot of the aires have hook-up (and solar doesn't work under a foot of snow) Also second Motorhome Fun. Don't call anyone a knob however much of a knob they're being because you will get banned for life (ask me how I know...), but I had a lot of fun there and learned a hell of a lot. The sister site diymotorhome.co.uk is great for techie stuff and is free, but the owner is a bit precious -- he tends to use it as a sandbox for software upgrades etc. and did shut it down for a while after an argument with one of the regulars (not me) Look forward to hearing how you get on.