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What about chlorinated rubber paint ?

The area south of Bletchley is ok. Suggest go around Willowbridge or consider Leighton Buzzard.

I had my bottom overplated and up to the waterline for about £6.5k some time ago. The main reason being to satisfy the surveyor/ insurance company. In your case I would black it regularly , say every 2-3 years including bottom and keep anodes in good nick.

My glasses. How did I get home? Did I get home?

Play some Des O'Conner to it.

The advantage of pellets is that they are relatively dense compared to woodchip or logs etc, so require less storage space. Also pellets or woodchips burn to almost nothing and the ash is not full of grit/acid like coal ash, can be used as fertiliser. I would just use the wood in a normal stove.

Isn't it bad luck to change a boat's name?

It is possible to get compact fluorescent bulbs which run on 12V. Osram do them but I assume they would be expensive compared to the 240V ones. I'm still in favour of using gas!

IMHO a Rayburn/AGA is too big for a narrowboat and takes some time to get going. There is also the question of the flue length available. I never did any cooking in mine, suggest a Squirrel stove is adequate with gas cooker.

Hi, I'm intending to renew the stern tube/bearing in the near future. Is this fairly straightforward, or is it a pig of a job ? Please share your pain with me.

Anyone for another Christmas dinner?

Surely, the point is that the alternator should be geared/belted so that it spins at tickover enough to produce a useful charge rate. The alternator control then limits the charge rate as the speed increases. Add-on charge controllers ensure that the voltage across the battery is high enough to ensure a full charge, whereas car alternators are mainly inended to power headlights etc and battery charging is a side issue, so the car battery does not get charged at the optimum rate/voltage.

I still don't see how the "Banbury Stick" is usable by a single crew. If the bridge is lifted, then it would come down before the stick could be wedged.?