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Not disagreeing with you at all. I see it as an alternative worth considering the original poster might come back with some figures. If you can find an electrician is happy for an amateur to do part of the install or final termination then great. certainly when it comes to house electrics no electrician would do this unless as a minimum they could inspect and test the final installation

No comment on that one i was looking at doing a sailaway i would consider myself reasonable confident with electrics but could see doing the research and calculations would be very time consuming as well as running all the cables. someone having done all the calculation and all you need to do is secure the loom in place and then complete the final termination would appeal to me or at least enough to look into.

If it's more expensive than getting a boat electrician then you are correct. but making a loom should be a quick process compared to installing all the wiring (1st fix and doing all the termination (2nd fix). The cost saving would be in the boat owner installing the made up loom and doing all the termination himself this is were the cost saving is. As said in a previous post car manufacturers make up looms that drop into a car they don't have an auto electrician sat in the car running individuals wire to each component it would take days to do one car. All the loom manufacture is doing (I assume) is to run the lengths of cable as per site visit fit it in flexible conduit label what all the end of the wires are for and where on the boat (cable length should give this away) all you would have is bare end of cables have a look on their website effectively they are doing the first fix runs. Not sure if a boat electrician would be happy just doing the first fix and walking away for the boat owner to complete. Like anything you have to weigh up the cost and possible pitfalls. but as i said above the couple on youtube did all their own electrics i think this is an alternative to get a boat electrician in and someone doing DIY.

getting back to what the original post was about i don't actually think this is a bad idea. I think there are possible pitfalls to doing this as others have said and clearly this needs to be considered. There are a couple on youtube that are fitting out there own boat and electrical wiring caused a massive amount of grief as they were fitting the wiring with no experience at all and no real DIY skills certainly not electrical. I think getting them in to design the loom for you would need to be done when you're confident of all the electrical point and position of everything and installed at the right stage of the build. I think this is a better method of lets read things then have guess what is right method the couple used on youtube i would go for someone that is experienced in boat wiring as the first choice but as often is the case with sailaways people do it to save money so a pre manufactured wiring loom fits between DIY with no real clue and getting a qualified boat electrician in. Building a wiring loom should be a relatively quick process so should be a lot cheaper than someone to wire the boat from scratch. The boat owner is then picking up the time to fit in place and do all the final terminations. It's a different approach i see no reason to knock it. so long as the boat owner is confident with the company and aware of what they are picking up on the final fixing in place it's a massive improvement over the diy approach a lot of people have done in the past it would be good to see photos and report back how it went the good and bad,hopefully all good.

Yes as i understand it that is the get around. i guess it would depend on the marina. you would think that local councils would be keen to have permanent residential mooring after all I'm sure you can fit more people in a marina than on a housing estate or is it a case that marinas aren't interested in the extra grief?

I have family in the south so used that as a starting point but with only 1 residential marina on the K&A then that is very limiting. As said also looking at Grand union which hopefully have more marinas with available berths reluctant to go on the north side of the network as their is clearly no link for widebeams (nothing against the north side i hasten to add) suggested marinas that might have available/suitable berths would be appreciated. I can see why people spend so long moving onto a boat my head is spinning looking at boat builders i thought was complicated finding a mooring is even worse especially as i seem to be to fussy. looked at marinas on the internet but some websites aren't that good. i have a couple of weeks off soon so hoping to get 3 or 5 possible marinas and visit them.

Thanks I will try and get a copy. I was sensing there were few on the K&A.

Correct because Tesco don't want to send customers to Aldi. CRT surely are there to promote canal way or at least they could given they are collecting money from boaters. assisting new boaters to the waterway means they will increase their income also to help boaters comply with the regulations. So it would be more like phoning up Tesco and asking where their nearest store is to where you live. But I'll take your point on board.

I was hoping to stay linked to the K&A so grand union is also an option or any other water way that will link to K&A but I'm further restricted as it will be a widebeam 12ft. Would the CRT hold a list of marinas which offer official residential moorings? Seems their should be a list somewhere surely

That's what I'm after. I will be selling the house and moving on-board as primary residence

Can anyone suggest any marinas to try

At this time looking for residential.

Early stages of now looking for a mooring I'm buying a widebeam so clearway need marinas as well as canals that will fit. looking for marinas that have residential mooring ideally something rural. Just looking for marina names as there doesn't seem to be a simple way of finding a list of marinas that offer residential as well as suitable for widebeam If people live on the marinas even better Thanks

I thought it was disappointing also seemed really short. I've watched since the very first series. Still prefer the very early series when they had no money to spend on sets the comedy stood out