Kudzucraft

As a newish member I have to totally agree.. We are nearing retirement and planning on buying a boat and spending 6-9 months a year in the UK CC'ing. We learned of the Canals from other sources and started doing serious research into them. While I have learned a lot from reading past posts on here, if I had found this forum first, I would have probably decided against it. It would have lead me to believe that people on the canals were not people I wanted to be around.

BRILLIANT!!

COMMON SENSE.... is it so rare it is like a Super Power.

Didn't read the rules/guidelines did you? ?

Someone recenlty mentioned https://www.sofabedbarn.co.uk/ . No experience, just saved the link.

This sort of information would be a great thing to add to Open Canal Map! Not sure if it can but maybe the owner is open to the idea of letting us add to it?

Narrow boats don't make sense in the States (Edit: at least in most places)... especially as constant cruisers. I have thought about this a good bit and living on a river here with thousands(?) of mile of connecting navigable water. But the river I live on is HUGE in places and the water can get quite rough thought it is isn't common. But a sudden summer thunderstorm can whip up 3' to 4' waves in a matter of minutes. There is no speed restrictions so large wakes off other boats is common. River banks are not suitable to moor generally. Way to shallow, mostly over grown and wild. You would have to anchor off the shore line in deeper water. No facilities such as L-san and water points. Marinas do have pump-outs now. But no free water and they can be quite a ways between them. Miles of river with nothing, no towns or supplies. And when you do come to a town your going to need a car to get the shops.

Umm? Yea, TOTALLY weird!

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Holy crap!

I believe the CRT maps only show the details on CRT controlled waters. Many rivers and canals are not controlled by CRT and that why there are no details in their maps.

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Yea, I might have been a little rude, but I was just trying to fit in here. Lets talk facts, not opinions. As I have said repeatedly, wire size determines what size fuse you need. No one appears to have been on the boat, so no one knows what the wire size is. Standards are great but you don't know if they were adhered too. You don't know if someone has rewired it at some point. Putting a larger fuse than was in there COULD lead to a fire. So the Poster needs to determine what the wire size is to know what size breaker should be there But I am just an ignorant American that couldn't possible know anything about British electricity.

That is about the stupidest thing I have seen posted on here. Electrons don't care if they are in Britain, Sweden or Australia.

Beaker protect wires from overheating, not devices. The pump may need a 15 amp fuse because of the start up draw. BUT the wire has to be big enough to handle it or you risk a fire if there is a short in the line. That is a fact. I don't know what wiring is in the the boat and the OP said they were not knowledgeable on electrics, just saying to replace a 10 amp with a 15 amp is OK could put them at risk of a fire. So it is reckless to say it is OK. As I have said all along, you need to know what size the wire is to be sure. Not just guess and say "Yes it is safe".

Beaker protect wires from overheating, not devices. Do keep up yourself.

I have no idea what is the boat as I said. But it is bad practice to replace fuses with larger one and assume it is OK to do so.

No, sorry I don't. What are talking about? All I said was Report post

I stated my assumption.

NO! Well, I have to make an assumption saying this but you should NEVER replace a fuse or circuit breaker with a larger rated one except for maybe testing. The purpose of a fuse is to protect the wiring, not the device hooked to it, the pump. Different size wire can only safely handle a certain amount of amperage (a measure of how much electricity is flowing through the wire). As electricity flows through the wire it heats up. To much electricity and it can overheat and cause a fire. This is where I have to make the assumption that the wire was rated for at least 10 amps. Since you have now replaced it with a 15 amp switch/fuse it will allow 50% more electricity to flow through the wire before it trips. If the pump or the wire develops a short the wrie could overheat and lead to a fire. So no, you need to place it with a 10 amp unless you know that the wire size going to the pump can is rated for 15 amps.

Is that enforceable since it is not in your Policy?? Obviously UK vs US law is different. But if it is not in the policy it can't be enforced here. Well, without advance notice and a new policy.

I agree is should do what you are thinking. But sounds/guessing that no one took the trouble to wire it that way. My guess is they have a positive lead to the float switch and the switch is tied to the pump. For it to work in manual they would need another positive lead that attached to the pump, bypassing the switch. That is how I would have wired it.