PeterF

What about if you use an eye splice on the end of the rope over and through the ring on the roof to save your paintwork.

Turn your face away from the garish light of day, Turn your face away from cold, unfeeling light - and listen to the music of the night...

I t used to be 240V +/-6% but when we harmonised to nominal 230V with Europe, the spec was widened so nothing really needed to change.

I have measured 250V inlet where I moor, 9% higher than the nominal 230V. 250V is within specification, 253V max is permissible. That will result in nominally 9% more current and 18% more power so my nominal 1000W element is probably providing 1180W. In the UK, the declared voltage and tolerance for an electricity supply is 230 volts -6%, +10%.

Moored up there in May, wet day but towpath was OK for boaters needs. Went into town and did our shopping because it is so convenient. As far as i am concerned, the work is not required for boaters so why inconvenience us so much at what are very good and extremely useful moorings.

Plus one for Victron SmartSolar, fitted one my new boat and works well, you load the Victron Connect app onto your phone to monitor it and adjust settings via Bluetooth as required.

The only things I would add to the above is when the meths is lit, keep your hand behind the lid and do not look down as you toss the match in and when the meths is lit do not close the lid too soon because the system needs to warm up a bit before it will draw fresh air in and holding the lid open allows extra air in until some warmth has built up. We recently got our new boat with one of these installed, the guy who did the handover suggested that until we got used to lighting it that we should put a small piece of fire lighter into the burner pot with the 50p of diesel and the meths and then when this is mastered swap to meths only. He said the firelighter helps to keep it alight if you close the lid too soon and provides more heat direct into the floor of the burner pot. Another tip he gave us was as the meths was dying down and getting the burner pot warm enough, the 50p of diesel starts boiling and sounds like bacon frying and spitting and when you hear that you know that the diesel will start burning OK so that is when you press the red button the second time. There are some videos on Youtube. Lit ours first time using a small piece of firelighter and used the firelighter for the next 5 or 6 times and then swapped to meths, the firelighter certainly made it more tolerant of poor technique. Also if the stove is still warm, lighting it with meths is not a good idea as the meths will flash to vapour quickly and when you throw the match in you can get a large flame shooting out.

The OP sates that they will have 4 x 325 Watts panels giving theoretical max of 1300 Watts or about 90 Amp at 14.6V. The Victron 100/30 is rated for max charging power of 440 Watts (30 Amp at 14.65 Volt). The installed panel power is 3 times the rated duty of the controller, in this case I would consider the 100/50 version which is rated at 50A charging current. On a sunny day with this set up you would be able to fully power the 500W inverter during the daytime and have power left over to charge the batteries at the same time.

The cabinets they make may well be chipboard, but the shaker doors we had are solid wood, not sure if all are solid and you can order doors only as long as they are standard sizes. See Linwood Oak

Boat builder on my new boat used DIY Kitchens, real wood doors. https://www.diy-kitchens.com

We once had a bottle that had a leak on the bottle valve but only when it was open, when closed no leak, from memory it came out of a small hole on the valve body probably from the valve stem gland packing.

Same here in late April, no Vollies on both occasions.?

You mean like councils using the RIPA legislation for covert surveillance of terrorists to spy on the parents of school children 10 years or so ago.

Same perpetrator

But the CO is mixed with the other products of combustion which are mainly nitrogen and water vapour and unburnt oxygen so the lower density of the CO being measured in part per million has no impact at all, the CO can not rise all on its own. The advice is where you are protecting in the cabin against CO being produced by a stove or cooker where the burnt gas will be warm, then mount them high as the warmer burnt gas is lighter. However, where you are using them to protect against ingress of CO from an engine or heater exhaust from outside passing though door vents etc. then the detector should be mounted at the height you breath at because the burnt gases will be cooler by time they get into the cabin and they will have pretty much the same density as air. If you have a CO detector in the bedroom, then it should be placed about gunnel height is this is the level of your pillow.

Having been involved in competitive archery years ago arrows were aluminium, but a very hard stiff brittle aluminium, I do not know what alloy was used, probably a carefully guarded secret. If you missed the target and hit a brick wall the arrow did not bend but shattered with crystalline fracture faces. Taught me that not all aluminium alloys behave like aluminium.

We had one of the red handle isolators on the inverter and when my son was borrowing the boat his girlfriend tried her hair drier (I had no idea she had taken one), the load heated the isolator and the contacts opened losing power to the inverter. First and last time a hair drier was used on the boat.

My experience from around 35 years ago on my father in law's 45ft Springer on the Trent below Cranfleet cut heading towards Nottingham, perhaps 1 mile downstream of Cranfleet lock, summer time and low flow on the river. The engine blew a cooling water hose and overheated so we had to stop the engine pretty quickly. We could not moor to the bank so we turned into the current and dropped the mud weight, I can not recall if it was a bucket of concrete or a 56lb (25 kg) weight. Luckily it was enough to hold the boat against the limited current. We taped up the hose the best we could, connected the water filling hose to the kitchen tap, ran with the radiator cap off and kept a supply of fresh water into it to make up for the leaky hose so we could limp back to Cranfleet. My wife has not liked the Trent since.

The quoted 2,074 units over 26 days is a continuous draw of 3.3kW for the entire time, surely that should indicate to the marina that something is amiss with the reading.

You have to have at least one setting configured to allow remote overide of the shore power current limit. See Multiplus set up example. There may be other settings to allow the remote to switch between operating modes but without reading the manual I am not sure. Victron keep manuals on line.

Diggle flight at the western end of Standedge tunnel single top and bottom gates, ground paddles to fill and empty the locks, paddles on the same side as the lock beams. Much less walking around to do these locks. They are also relatively deep, sure they are around 10ft each.

They may have a stock for refills, but will not let people have a bottle if they are not returning an empty. Once I had my empties off ebay I had no problem getting a refill but nobody would let me have a bottle without an empty even if they had plenty in stock.

With COVID a lot of people were at home last year and the good weather resulted in lots of sales of patio gas heaters and BBQs, us caravan and motor home sales increasing, but I think it is the garden stuff that has used up all the spare stock. It may have relaxed a bit over winter but with a dry April, it has become a problem again. It will improve I hope as I would expect Calor to be having new cylinders made, but I do not know at what rate. With overseas holidays probably being restricted, I see the demand remaining high for garden use throughout 2021. If Calor are reluctant to buy lots of new bottles because they think it is temporary, then it may take longer to return to normal. The only way of knowing is if you have inside knowledge about the rate of new cylinder manufacture and demand for them.

I sympathise with you on this. We have just had our boat signwritten and spent ages going over fonts and decorative scrolls. I really like the lettering, perhaps not traditional but very flowing and should look good on a boat not trying to mimic historical precedent. A simplified rose could look good, perhaps with the petals painted black and not overlapping the text. I wonder if your signwriter could offer some suggestions for the rose. In the end, go for your gut instinct, this is one thing that is very personal to peoples perception and you could get diametrically opposing views.

When the new agreement was noted in the Boaters Update in late March (Bridgewater notification in Boaters Update) they stated 10 days on Bridgewater waters for CRT licensed boat, no return within 28. I wrote to CRT stating that This meant that for people transiting through from e.g. northern T&M to Liverpool and then back to home moorings on northern T&M needed to buy a Bridgewater license for the return journey. I have just received an email from CRT stating that the boat licensing team have clarified the times within the agreement to being essentially 7 + 3 days not one block of 10, the 7 days allowing for an outgoing passing from CRT waters to CRT waters passing through the Bridgewater and the 3 days for the return journey if this is within the 28 day window. The CRT booking system has outbound and return journey options when you make your booking. You do not need to book the return date when you make the outbound booking so can book the return based on what happens time wise during your journey. This makes much more sense and is more workable not needing a short term Bridgewater license for the return journey. They said they will be adding some more detailed instructions / explanatory document shortly to the booking page.