Gerry underwood
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This is our home. 59f X 13ft. She is called Monkey And Dragon.
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1 hour ago, PhilR said:
So what did he charge for his *inspection*?
£150.
1 hour ago, Sea Dog said:You must have a very memorable boat if a guy turns up 4 years and umpty hundred surveys later and is still familiar with it...
My boat is unforgettable. Bit like herpes.
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Same bloke who did it last time so he knows the boat.
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We passed with no issues. Took about 20minutes. He did comment on the high standard of work with the gas oven installation...I almost felt proud.
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We have booked the same guy that did our boat 4 years ago. Unfortunately due to Covid we have to vacate the boat whilst he does his stuff.
32 minutes ago, Athy said:Correct, you don't even need to stay there. Go for a walk, come back and see if he's finished yet. We had ours done last week and we were 93 miles away from our boat!
I don't get the rain reference. We are not many miles from Stretham, and no rain is forecast today.
EDIT: just checked Stretham on the BBC Weather web site. No rain forecast there either.
It was raining earlier. Now stopped.
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Good day.
We have our BSC inspection today. As a rough guide how long should I expect to be standing in the rain for whilst the inspector does his stuff.
No sarcastic replies such as " it depends on this that and the other. Just a rough figure will suffice.
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Just checked behind the existing cooker and Flexi fittings are used. It is gas. Freestanding.
We are arranging fitment.
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We are in the process of changing our cooker as it is rubbish. Should we expect to do a straight swap or will we have to change stuff to fit??
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As per my last post. I believe that I have calculated correctly and it would appear that we are at about 90AH per day. We are not going to be using the kettle, microwave or toaster.
We have had a quote for a 12V 640W Complete Boat Solar Kit With Mono Panels. Works out at £750 for everything.
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Thanks for all the helpful replies. I can see that I was over reaching my expectations of solar power. We will make the necessary adjustments and we will go for panels in the near future.
For those of you that said I had no clue and needed to understand solar power/electricity....guess what? That is why I asked the question. Not the first time that certain people on here have spouted their superior views. Never known a forum quite this bad for shooting people down.
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There is a mistake. TV is on for about 5 hours.
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I am proper confused. We used their calculator in order to work out what we would need. None the wiser.
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We are heading towards Ely from Stretham on the old West River.
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We are currently going up the Ouse towards Ely. Can someone please advise me if there is a wide enough area to turn a 59ftX13ft widebeam. We know we can turn at fish and duck but we want to go a bit further.
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We are on a shore line.
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Electric water heater.
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Good morning fellow boaters.
Instead of putting our water heater on boost in order to get a bath we have started to run our engine for about 40minutes to heat the water.
Is this ok to do and is it cheaper than running the boost?
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Come the warmer weather we will re painting our widebeam. The boat was re blacked in August of last year so I really don't want the extra expense of having the boat out of the water.
Has anybody painted a boat whilst still in the water?
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We used a couple of the bags and clothes come out looking like crinkle cut chips.
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43 minutes ago, Stilllearning said:
Since you are on shore power, you have options. Either, as Nick says, use a dehumidifier or as you suggest, use a small electric heater. It will come down to a decision based on your preferences and lifestyle. Having said that, in my experience warmth and dryness trumps any worries over cost, because once one thinks of all that condensation sitting on the expensive steelwork, then the need to dry the boat thoroughly and permanently becomes an overriding concern.
A small heater will be ordered. Piece of mind is a valuable thing.
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1 hour ago, nicknorman said:
Our boat stays in the marina with no-one on board for a fair bit of the winter. First year, we just ventilated it well, but things got damp, cupboard doors etc swelled. So we got a dehumidifier (desiccant type) and now leave that on (draining into the sink), closing all windows and taping up vents, leaving cupboard doors ajar. Works really well, everything is bone dry in the spring. The device has a “humidistat” so that when the relative humidity falls to 50%, it shuts off and doesn’t come back on until the RH rises again. So it uses about £3 of electricity per week.
Your situation is slight different I think, in that you are on the boat all year? But even so, it might be better to extract the water vapour rather that heating to prevent that vapour from condensing on the cold spots.
We are not indeed on board all year. We will be looking at ways to extract vapour
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A couple of pics of where we are currently.
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We have a shore line. I was thinking of getting a 400watt heater with a timer for the master bedroom.
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Cheers for the great replays. Would a small electric heater help cure the problem?
Leisure batteries.
in New to Boating?
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Good morning on this fine sunny day.
We are going to be changing our leisure batteries for 12v 220 ah. Will I need to change our connectors cables as the current batteries are only 110ah??