Boater Sam

Would break his heart if he lost a windlass and had to buy a different one. Pretty though, woman's boat you think? Can't see an anti vandal handcuff key?

Thinner than 8mm T&G would be difficult to secret pin to the battens, it splits the tongues off for fun. 5 minute Polyurethane wood gel and prop it all?

Tell that to the many guys who have a length of blazing red hot coax coming into their boat! Seen it happen, its scary.

I would suggest to you that your battery ventilation TO THE OUTSIDE leaves a lot to be desired. In a good well ventilated installation the H2S would of vented out, hence there are not lines of dead boaters on the towpath. Boiling batteries is well known and occurs more often than you would think. I have had this problem when one battery in a bank of 4 ( Elecssols, spit ) in parallel went short and cooked the whole bank to destruction We noticed the heat, and dropping power not the smell as they were properly housed in a ventilated space not in the cabin.

Is this a replaceable pleated paper element in a removable can with a spring and large washer in the base? If so the spring is the bypass (blocked filter) valve, the excessive pressure across the filter forces it down against the spring till the top of the element comes away from the filter head. Canister filters have the same arrangement built in. This illustration has the oil flow in the wrong direction!

There are many "communities" of boaters in the larger marinas throughout the country. There are social groups on social media, forums as here and Thunderboat. Many groups of moorers are not officially supposed to be there, see the end of the S Oxford Canal for instance. Then there are the continuous cruisers that aren't, called continuous moorers by some, in breach of the 14 day rule.

The filter or the filter head contains a bypass valve not an oil pressure relieve valve, they are different. This opens in the event of the filter becoming so blocked that it will not pass oil, very rare. Only occurs if the oil is incredibly dirty. So it cannot blow the filter material into the oil ways. Oil pressure relief valve is in the main oil gallery feed and prevents the pump from over pressurising the oil filter case. We had Ford Transits blowing up their oil canisters due to the pressure relief valve in the oil pump sticking closed. Its the only instance of this that I have ever known.

Somebody Likes Me!!!! To those who do, a special New Year wish that you live long and happy for at least another year. Really, posting here is sometimes like shooting fish in a barrel. Sam.

With the motive force of the prop being only at one end, the pivot point is also hugely dependant on the amount of power applied and the reaction from the rudder.

Europeans, I always thought we were tarred with the same brush. I have used tar and oil based materials all my working life and beyond, apart from being silly, I'm fine, I think. I used some wonderful bitumen paint in the '70s that was mixed with silver paint. It went on black as night and separated as it dried to finish up silver. Used thousands of gallons of it on steelwork outside, most of which is still in use and good order.

The oil filler cap is very Kubota looking. The broken dip stick is too, they tend to lose the end if you pull them out with the engine running.

Once you have established that the alternator is not over charging the batteries, so far it seems OK but the batteries are not equalising, It may be policy to change all 4 for new ones. The difficulty with series connection for 24v is that if one develops a faulty cell, the other one gets a roasting. They should ideally equalise to read near enough the same, yours don't. If one has failed so monumentally, its a safe bet that all the others are not going to be worth saving. Its false economy to run new with old. They need to be all the same make, size and type.

Fame at last! Strange sense of humour, its the heat. Had some very pleasant response to my offering, thank you, its nice to be noticed.

I feel humour failure approaching................................... Besides, it makes me feel good.

Clearer. Don't regard the SG as a load, its telemetry only. On the battery.

May I wish all the folk on my ignore list and all the prattling idiots that continually sidetrack and reduce posts to trivia, a thoroughly miserable New Year. May all your camels get foot rot and spit in your eyes. To all other wonderful sensible members of the forum, a joyous and prosperous New Year, may you be healthy, wealthy and wise. Sam.

Single core cable is not only recent, most lights wiring was in 1044, single 0.044" copper strand. Snapped easily which is why the better jobbers used 3029, higher current rating too.

Its not just the copper pipe but all metallic parts exposed to the H2S , the galvanised cable tray, engine, electrical terminals, the inside of the hull etc. I think you have a bigger corrosion problem than you imagine. The tell tails on the batteries are useless. They are not floating balls anymore, just a pointed plastic stub, when the end dips in the acid it causes total internal refraction of the light so it shows green. When the acid is low, no refraction so shows black. As the acid level rises as a battery charges, green is supposed to mean OK and charged, totally misleading, just make folk wreck their batteries faster.

Those tell tale windows on batteries mean very little. Disconnect all the batteries and check each one in isolation with a volt meter and post the results.

Morrisons supermarket an easy walk through the park from Autherley junction. We too moor across from Oxley Marina without hassle. Coffee shop too in the bar at Oxley.

Remind me not to pee in rivers ever again. And tell the cows not to as well.

Probably not the pressure sensitive switches in that touch pad but the run timer electronics that it switches.