Boater Sam

We dare not reduce the number of boats, the water level will drop and no one will be able to go anywhere.

Vibration causes copper cables to creep until loose in connectors. Tighten all from battery terminals to the inverter. Is there a nasty red key isolator switch in the feed to the battery? They are junk, fail regularly. If so replace with something decent costing £30 + I have known the little on/off switches on inverters to go high resistance leading to intermittent starting.

I would not bother. Recently purchased Rylards paints have faded badly and were the worst paints to apply well that I have ever used on a boat. International paints are in my opinion better.

Hot water? Kettle on the solid fuel stove top 24/7.

Got it, you have a mechanical rev counter running on the alternator belt and a frequency counter on the alternator stator winding. Both driven by belts. But is the pulley ratio alternator to crank correct? It is very difficult to accurately establish effective belt pulley sizes .

I asked that back in post 13 and got no answer. I don't understand the reference to alternator frequency if its a belt drive.

And then the first gets hot and the last is tepid! Touche!

There is an intermediate gear running on the front gear pair. The layshaft is actually the input shaft. The double cone connects either of the lower free running gears to the output shaft on which they freewheel in neutral. If you have a knock in forward gear I would look at the front gear pair and the intermediate gear and its bearings. The gearbox reverses the engine rotation in forward.

The drawing is for a "single pipe system" where the first radiator from the boiler gets hot, the last one only tepid. Was common on house systems years ago. 2 pipe system has a flow and return pipe to each radiator.

Are the electricity generation companies also going to have to pay full duty on any diesel fuel used for emergency generators? Or the airports, hospitals, fire and police in emergency generators? I would doubt it. Where is the level playing field?

Would these be the wood pellets imported from Canada and the USA by the most environmentally dirty transporters which brought down the Northern Irish Parliament?

If they are brass channel section on the edge of the steel, the problem is usually that the steel rusts and spreads the channel. Take them off, rustproof and refit, possibly yearly.

Other passing boat's lines. The horse didn't.

My favourite for peace and quiet and not too energetic is the Leeds & Liverpool summit out towards Leeds. Towns and villages and Saltair of course.

With a horse boat you had to moor on the off side always.

There is one point I would make. To get the best headroom the floor battens have been screwed straight on the steel angle, there are no counter battens. This reduces the underfloor ventilation to almost nil. Not a good idea. I would be inclined to fit short 14" sections of say 18mm thick timber on top of the battens leaving a 3" gap between each piece before laying the floor. You lose a little headroom but you can run plastic pipes through (no joints in the floor ) and the ventilation will keep the bilge sweet. Sam.

I did post an explanation but it was one of the vanishing ones. In 1998 it was BW of course, poor grammar on my part. CRT have carried on though. We set up our moorings on the farm 2007. It was not easy, were threatened with section 8 several times but eventually BW just took the money from the farmer and we pay him.

50% ethylene glycol is rated to protect down to -37 degrees C. It will also raise the boiling point of water to 129 degrees C. at sea level. There is a chart https://www.fcsdchemicalsandlubricants.com/main/quickref/ethylene.pdf if it helps. I usually go for 33% 'cos I'm a cheapskate and the boat is not in the Arctic. There is a lot to be said for using the red stuff, propylene glycol, its kinder on pumps and the environment and is not toxic.

Glad to help, makes a change to be correct for once.

The answer to composting loo, don't. A boater here walks past with a bottle of pee every day and a truck of crap and coconut shell every other day, absolutely no point as he is emptying it into a septic tank anyway. To the condensation. Lots of clever ideas but they all fall down when you consider power to run them. Heat and ventilation is the simple answer. Heat from solid fuel, ventilation with proper sized vents and opening a window when showering/cooking etc. Or stop breathing.

They will work on an instantaneous gas heater provided that they pass enough hot water to keep the burner going. The problem with the small heaters like Palomas etc. is that they are not true modulating burners. Its all or nothing.

Absolutely no reason why not. Buy a decent one not a cheap thing with plastic innards. Grohe very recommended.

I'd clean that piston up and run it. The nut has stayed put and not damaged the edge of the piston which would trap the top ring. Run a lot worse than that in the past and had no trouble.