ditchcrawler

An adjustable throw windlass, long through for the heavy paddles shorter for winding them down again, adjust it so you don't catch your knuckles on the beams. The one s I had were fitted with a double head to fit both size spindles. Just been out and cant find them so I may have given them away. They were advertised in one of the canal magazines about 15 years ago.

Was that Sooty's sone

Which in some cases is quite acid

Wasn't there a posting here some time back from someone moored in Birmingham who was subject to a noise complaint and the council were investigating.

A program on the radio the other week the said that the plan was to feed them from street lights etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000mjy

Very true, it will layer out in the radiators so you will get hot and cold bits

But what are its anti freeze properties if you are not a live aboard? If I was using automobile antifreeze I would buy ready mixed rather than putting tap water into the system

Isnt this what people who buy houses near the canal use to get it made no mooring areas by their houses. Are we playing into their hands here saying running our engines causes a nuisance and maybe shooting ourselves in the foot

Well its a year on now since it was in the canal mags http://thamessolarelectric.co.uk/

If you need 4 hours a day then I would suggest that 2 hours in the morning and 2 at night is the best way to go, especially if you have solar this time of the year, as you may not need those evening hours if you get a good day. If I stop on 48 hr moorings I need to run my engine sometime after my first night moored.

Yes I have done it as well I think it was a Waterways World cruise

I have a modern one like it

Providing you have the required amount of high and low free ventilation you can put in what you like

Bit difficult to comply the BSS ventilation requirements with that system

An electric boat here https://www.riverstourtrust.org/river-trips/john-constable-lighter/