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I was told and have done set it to about half the cut off pressure, worked well for me.

We have an Evo model which connected via WBus to the useless Webasto controller, it is now controlled by a Nest unit via a relay.

We last stopped there June 22 and had a really decent pub meal, nothing fancy but well cooked.

Totally unnecessary duplication, just why ?

Martin Thinking back to the Serven, we obviously did a number of locks (Stourport to Tewksbury) but as we were to enter Diglis lock a patrol boat with three spotters (yes three) came out, this was confirmed by the lockie as spotters. So it was probably them who spotted me. As others have said why on Earth don’t the river sighting get added to the record, dead easy and cost cart nothing to do. this probably is the reason why a few years ago I got a letter about overstaying a mooring, even though we’d been down the Severn in the period and were recorded at every lock.

Only had our current boat since the start of the year, but we’ve been out for about 8 weeks in total, many places. we have two sightings, one at the marina and one on the Servern by a Lockie. I’m certain that we have been logged on at least two other occasions, but no reference to them.

When we sold Bluemoon the surveyor just cleaned the surface with a scrapper and used his ultrasound tester. interestingly on the other boat he was surveying he got his battery grinder to clear off some normal blacking when he had some suspicious readings only to find filler underneath filling some deep pitting.

So CRT produces a white laminated sign, then a corrugated blue one with exactly the same words but don’t think to remove the old white one. To be honest, leave the white one and don’t waste money on the blue one.

We fitted a cheapo colour changing / selectable led strip years ago, wired to the 12v circuit. No problems at all. At the end of the day it was a few quid.

Our top drop back section of Worcester Marine Windows (long gone) shattered after I believe someone fell against the window, fitted a Perspex temporary panel, ok it lasted about 4 years before it went very dull. Local glass company made me a replacement with hole in toughened glass for £35.

Looking at insurance for my next boat, GJW and Newton Crumb both seem reasonable, Towergate 50% more expensive

Had Bluemoon repainted nearly five years ago by Pinders, taken back to bare metal and painted in two pack. Basic washing not waxed and it looks like the day it was painted. The red shows no appreciable fading between open to the sun and generally covered by the semi trad stern cover.

We have three cassettes and need them all occasionally, any fewer elsans and I might need four. Now where would I store it 🤔

There used to be an Elsan at Kings Norton junction that went about 10 years ago.

There used to be a boat called River Dance that moored there under the balcony, not a traditional narrowboat from memory, but it hasn’t been there for many many years.

Every sign says 6’10” regardless

Four or five minutes at a steady pace How about this one, CaRT have obviously mastered time travel 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Nice new sign at Chirk tunnel, no indication that it’s one way working, just that there might be bats. Hire boat was more than happy to go in with two boats coming through. Had to shout to stop them meeting in the middle. coming back into Birmingham Galton tunnel states it’s one way working when it not. Brandwood tunnel on the north Stratford which is 380M long, the sign says transit time is 16 minutes 😩. Who at CaRT approves, proof reads these signs ?

At Gnossal two men out with angle grinders replacing the perfectly good white CaRT signs with blue ones, just because there’s a canal festival this weekend. Nobody trimming the edges, cutting down the nettles or trees growing out of the edges, but what do we expect

I’ll go with fuel level. We had a very similar situation out and about the engine became a bugger to start but once running all OK. Until I couldn’t start it. Turned out the electric fuel pump had failed and the fuel was being feed by gravity, up to the point the level got too low.

Barrus 40 in ours from 2005, the Yamnar engine is solid starts every time, a little Smokey in locks, probably my fault for battery charging off load. Barrus marinisation generally ok main issue is the 110a altenator driven by the single v belt, not really up to the job. VDO Hour counter packed up years ago.

Hill farm marina, up by 5% but first rise since opening in 2017, so not too bad.

We have a Thermostatic Mixing Valve (TMV) that is set to supply the washing machine cold fill with water at 42deg C. With the machine on a 40 degree wash the inverter is hardly bothered and with the wash rinsed in warm water they dry much quicker as well. https://www.screwfix.com/p/pegler-peg402-tmv-15mm/96288

Nah, far too much faffing about

I’m having to replace the top of the Stovax Brunel stove and therefore need to remove the 15 year old steel flue. The current flue is angled and I think it would be better to have an offset in it to make it “squarer” into the collar. Is it acceptable to use vitreous enamelled pipework as used in home wood burners. Something like This as an offset and then a straight pipe up to the collar?