StephenA

It's always worth keeping a couple on board just in case.... they seem to crop up in a few odd places.

A couple of the locks in Burton upon Trent used to have them but I can't remember if they are still needed,

And given that a lot of boats don't comply with 7.1 then why bother with the rest....

Ours is bubbling round the electrical connection... we need to replace it. What is the thread on the BMC 1.5 for the oil sender?

Because we don't want to be hit by a bicycle?

It seemed pretty full when we went past last Sunday - seemed a little run down.

I think it just takes the front down....

Looks like French to me Odd looking lock - very short balance beams and that bridge looks like its fixed. Doesn't look like the lock has been used for quite a long time.

What is interesting is the Last Updated date of 30 March 2018 which suggests that someone is actively doing things. The last updated date for my domain is when I moved hosting companies.

By small portable I meant somewhere round the 300 to 600 W range. We've got 3 or 4 double USB sockets plus a couple of "lighter" sockets... we try to charge mobiles, tablets, camera batteries from 12V rather than use the inverter. We use the regular laptop chargers into the inverter for laptops.

We had one with presets for various laptops because they tend to use different voltages. Our Lenovo for example needs 20V at 2.5 amps where as the HP needs 19.5 at 3.3A

Yes - you can get small portable inverters to charge laptops or you can get 12V converters which up the voltage to the right one needed by the laptop.

It will only stay live until the domain registration expires...

It has a "bulkhead" between the kitchen and the bedroom - it has large cupboard in the kitchen and a smaller one with a book case under it in the main bedroom. There is a door (with gaps above and below it) that opens flush along the side of the cupboard... and that's it until the end of the cabin at the back of the boat. Front open plan area has 4 hopper windows and a central front door with windows on either side of it... so there is nowhere in the front cabin/kitchen where we can put the detector and meet the requirements on distance from CO sources and also to keep it away from windows / curtains etc. I'm sure that there are a lot of boats on the canals who will face the same problem. Middle cabin has 3 hopper windows and the back cabin has 2. So how many CO detectors and where do they go? That's the problem with the suggested BSS regs at the moment - they are too vague and open to interpretation. Do people know how reliable a CO detector is if its left on an unheated boat over winter where it gets quite cold?

"Away from drafts such as doors and windows" ... .pretty hard to do on a lot of canal boats.

Which is what I basically said in

Was that a different thread to the one I read where a lot of concern was raised about the vagueness of the proposals (the thing about doors and distances for example) and the obvious problem of examiners putting their own interpretation on the rules and refusing to issue a certificate until you do what they want.

Canalplan is running its own map server now - with its own custom overlays.

BTW - if you're using Google Maps and you become popular expect a large bill from Google at the end of the month. Anything over 28000 map loads in a month is going to cost you money - that's what hurt Canalplan.

Pingdom doesn't properly understand http/2 so its tuning advice is misleading as it tells you to do things that are no longer relevant. In Canalplan the idea of rating moorings is to allow the route planning to make better suggestions for overnight stops. As to why we keep Canalplan running and are working on it for no real financial gain... well... because we can

and a pile of them were to do with Sanitary stations....

"Hobby Boaters".... charming description. Is that how you see anyone who doesn't live on their boat? As it just being a hobby?

I wasn't impressed by the "rebuild" Calcutt did on our 1.5 The one we had done a few years later by Starline at Upton was much better and 12 years later it's still going extremely well....

The rebuild cost of my house is significantly lower than the price I purchased it for (even after 16 years) because the real value lies not in the house but in the land it stands on.

So they say they are turning up on Thursday and then put enforcement officers outside the marina for three days and get the boats when they come out or when they are going back in....