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booke23

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  1. I have one of these and it also remembers it's settings....even when I've left it unplugged for months.
  2. As it's just you alone on the boat, I'd say something around the 40ft mark is a good size as it makes mooring/handling easier single handed and keeps the costs down slightly......35ft would be great if you can find one with a fixed bed but a lot that size don't have fixed beds and I definitely wouldn't recommend that. They always say that your first boat is the one where you learn what you actually want in a boat, so it's good you have recognised this, although if you haven't already I'd recommend you hire a boat for a week or two to see what you think of it as Youtube videos present an overly idyllic representation of life on board.....don't get me wrong, canal boating is great but you should try before you buy.
  3. Yes, my boat has a low profile shower tray with a whale gulper. It was fitted by the original owners and wouldn't be my choice, but it works absolutely fine. I'd have to measure it's exact depth but it's certainly around the 30mm mark. The only issue is this - With a conventional shower tray in the event of a failure of the gulper pump, you could have a shower and allow the shower tray to fill and then bail it out afterwards. This would not be an option at all with a low profile shower tray....it would overflow very quickly with the pump not running. For this reason, if I was fitting out a boat I'd spec a deeper shower tray.
  4. Yet they don’t investigate others 🤷‍♂️
  5. I’d go for on at 5c…..like you say the heaters are only low output.
  6. In that case I’d have thought the HSE would be the investigating body. The MAIB are quite patchy when it comes to investigating inland boating fatalities, but always investigate sea going boating fatalities. So in this case, as the boat was in a dry dock and not even on the water, I imagine the MAIB will not investigate,
  7. Yes it's showing all live threads now! Thanks @RichM
  8. Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if some hire companies fit a small panel (say 20w) to keep the batteries topped up when the boat is not used for extended periods off season. Something like this would be inexpensive and would potentially pay for itself very quickly by the extended life the batteries would have.
  9. I see where you're coming from, but even the most leisurely hirer probably does more than enough cruising to keep up with power demands and the hire companies don't want to invest in solar that isn't necessary. I can also see how on a hire boat, solar panels would be prone to accidental damage.....an eager but inexperienced crewmember walking on them or a hammer/mooring pin carelessly thrown onto the panels would wreck them. Unfortunately it's a fact of life that hire boats can have quite hard lives and anything that makes the boat more fragile just isn't attractive to hire companies.
  10. They don't fit solar panels on hire boats because of the large amount of hours cruising they do a day. Most hire boats do at least 6 hrs cruising per day thus easily fully charging the batteries.
  11. Says the guy who decided to moor up to go and 'ave a word' with a bridge keeper, gets punched in the mouth and then gets their licence suspended by CRT so you now can't move. It makes you look like a bit of an ass.
  12. I agree, I think it's actually a little busier outside of the school holidays these days. Like you say, marina based leisure boaters don't go out to avoid the imaginary crowds!
  13. I imagine the monitor will be 48 Watts, that's fairly typical for a small LCD panel. However it'll only draw that at maximum brightness, in real world use it won't be using that much. Same with the soundbar....in real use it'll only use a fraction of it's rated wattage unless you like to have it cranked to 11 all the time!
  14. I used one of those to power my router. It's very wise and works well and should do for you. The only comment I would make is as you are potentially drawing close to the 10A capacity of the device, it might get a bit warm so mount it somewhere where it gets a bit of air flow and isn't covered in clothing etc. (like at the back of a wardrobe) The router only draws 2 amps so in my case the power supply is always cold to touch.
  15. Members will always counter any advice or suggestions that might be dangerous, that's all that has happened here. If you want to see combative then you should try the political section. 😉
  16. That's not what you originally suggested. Whatever way you slice it, adding ash to water or water to ash is unwise. Just put the ash in a metal container....you can even buy metal ash containers with lids and handles to facilitate this. Then put the ash container somewhere to cool. KISS
  17. If you add water to hot ash, it immediately turns to steam in a large plume and blasts ash all over the place.
  18. Yes, but a fully functioning live topics window would save you even looking at VNC as it's right on the home screen. First world problems and all, but I'm just curious as to why Live topics works the way it does.
  19. Why does the live topics window not show older threads that have been resurrected? No matter how many posts they get, they never appear in live topics if they're over a certain age. I know you can just go to VNC but I'm curious......is this just a feature of the forum software or a setting somewhere?
  20. The average download speed on the Indian broadband network is 59 Mbit/s.
  21. Cummins and Detroit I imagine are good....they make engines for buses and trucks. Yanmar are likely fantastic, as they are Japanese and used in lots of industrial applications. VM are an Italian maker of diesel engines used by Fiat and Chrysler in their cars. I had a Chrysler once with a 2.8l VM diesel and it was ok. A 6 cylinder Gardner would be great if you come across one, as long as it hasn't done galactic hours since it was last overhauled.
  22. Is that the one at the top of the flight? If so I'm sure there are a few people living there. Devizes marina have a few official residential moorings, but they tend to always be full....even their leisure moorings. Caen hill marina, while advertising leisure only, do in fact tolerate liveaboards as long as you keep your head down and don't annoy people. I'm sure you'd get away with living on a CRT mooring, again as long as you keep your head down.
  23. I wouldn't even bother with MP3 in this day and age, you might as well just use uncompressed formats as storage on devices these days is huge.....20 years ago it made sense when a lot of us were still on dial up internet with 56k speeds and had computers with 1gb hard drives. Now, even my phone has 512GB of storage and my laptop 1.5TB. The only thing stopping MP3 becoming obsolete is that there is so much legacy music still sold in MP3 format, as that's what it was ripped to 20 years ago.
  24. No, they sound perfect when they are clean and unscratched.
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