Ex Brummie

As it is a pressure jet burner, the service is a lot more than just cleaning out soot and carbon. Apart from a basic combustion analyser at £200 + with annual recalibration of approx 50% of the cost, you need an oil pressure gauge and fitting manifold at approx a further £40. You then need to understand how to use them and interpret your results. Maybe part of your problem is possibly the siting of your craft and accessibility. I used to service several boat appliances, being a boater myself, and many of my peers would never countenance what they considered out of the ordinary, particularly as the gas regs makes an exception of boats and caravans. As I recall, OFTEC do not.

I think I'll let IanD and MHS continue their personal fighting. It is semi interesting thaton a couple of occasions each, they have both replied to their previous posts to maintain the thread. Separately, @MtB , a few years back I hired a cruiser on Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, and had to return to Eniskillen one day after venturing about 2 miles onto the Lower Lough. The chart supplied by the hire company (along with military binoculars) showed a bold red line about a further mile away with the annotation " after this point, the Lough may become rough in stormy weather". The 27ft x 9ft cruiser was already rolling up to about 30-35 degrees with equivalent pitching. From memory, the hob and oven was basically a domestic unit with the 240volt ignition module plugged into a small 60 watt inverter plugged into a cigar lighter socket. I'm not sure whether BSS applied to Irish craft, but t worked well.🙂

I recall, in 2000, visiting Marston's Brewery on a trip they thought would be the last. They had stopped the coach tour parties the year before as they appeared to be about to be taken over by Banks's Brewery. As it panned out the opposite happened and they took over Banks's. Whilst some Banks's beers continued, the main trading was, and still is, carried on under the Marston's banner. They offer a good meal for a reasonable cost, but there is little traditional drinking areas in the pubs. Going back to the visit, the premises and plant were very old and must have been relatively inefficient, so competing with modern breweries is very difficult. As in all walks of life, newer equipment and premises will overtake obsolete undertakings. Real Ales will survive, but only in the quantities required by those who still have a taste for tradition. According to reports, drinking alcohol in entertainment outlets is reducing .

And neither for parking by the look of it as the adjacent houses appear to corral it at the side and rear, and road frontage obscured by the bridge.

However did the crews of 200 years ago manage to work with no knowledge of all these fluidics theories? They must have spent many of their navigating hours pondering such questions.😉

I have a switch on the main board, and I also fitted another between the main feed and the pump connection. I never really gave it much thought as it seemed the right thing to do. In every electrical installation I have seen it appears to be common practice to isolate the main feed near the appliance. Apart from which, if you need to work on the pump or ancillary water supply equipment, you'd soon get fed up walking back and forth the length of the boat.

I think that an electric boat designed for a cruising holiday would likely be confusing for the hirers as they will not be familiar with the foibles of such a craft, as illustrated by the 'not to go above 3kw instruction' the hirer had been given. Hirers are often confused enough with a traditional diesel craft and are told in some instances to only shower when the engine is running, which gets translated into run the engine when you want a shower. Likewise, an instruction to only operate lock paddles at half way and singly when rising results in the same manner when descending. A private electric boat will hopefully have a steerer who understands the controls, gauges, requirements and capability of his craft which, judging by IanD's multiple graphs and tables is far from simple.

Coming to this thread quite late (I wondered what could expand a simple thread to 5 pages), I've never really thought about the finer points of physics theory, but no doubt there is someone's research into another phenomenon with water flow in locks. I find I sometimes get impatient waiting for the last inch or so of water to allow the gate to open and find that if I push the beam hard enough it creates a wave that rebounds off the bottom gate and when it gets back to the top gate, it allows it to open fractionally when I can hold for a while allowing water to pass through the gap before it recedes and fills the last bit more quickly. Do I need to name it and produce a paper for it?😗 Just to add, The S&W is a canal we cruise a lot and all the options suggested make a good week's cruise. Maybe I tend to agree with @nicknorman about Stourbridge and it's a long walk from the moorings to the town which is generally not very interesting.

The controls on an automotive engine don't necessarily transfer to a boat. Many additions were made to cater for the ignorant driver so there was less to think about. This sensor on the injector pump sounds very much like the automatic choke fitted to petrol engines in the 70' and 80's which added to fuel consumption, and staring problems on hot engines. Then there were many kits available to revert to manual chokes, and I'm sure this addition could be able to be disabled, as long as there is no turbo or similar to confound the issue.

Surely the only part that needs to be in the fridge is the sensor, the controller can go anywhere.

In a properly sized system ,yes, but the difficulty comes when a too large a heat source is permanently on slumber. These appliances were basically designed to be in a large farmhouse kitchen, where there was a continuing demand for cooking / hot water, and traffic in and out throughout a long day kept the area well ventilated.

The heat output of this appliance is far in excess of the usual boat stoves, and if operated at consistently low loads, the boiler will fail . The place to look to see if it is in good condition is the return port on the boiler. Very often the return temperature is to low and causes condensation which results in corrosion and leakage (and effectively scraps the appliance) Whilst a boiler can be replaced, it involves completely dismantling the stove . The usual back boiler connections on boat stoves are higher up and kept hot by the fire.

After a night out which included an experience she was now regretting, a young lady was shopping in the supermarket, saw the source of her regret stacking shelves in the home cleaning aisle. "You told me you were an aerobatic stunt pilot" she declared. "No" he replied "I told you I was a member of the Ariel display team"

If you undo all the screw on the top step, does that give you access? Slow fingers again!!!!!! I've now seen the new pictures and Mrs M's reply.

That was still open on Sunday when we went past.