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Ohh yes this seems much easier! I'll be livingaboard but laptop/phone charging/lights are the main power requirements so I'll stop over complicating things and save the money for a solar panel

Ahhh okay, that's good to know, thanks! I'll have a rummage about and see if I can find the battery isolator. Would you recommend getting a smartguage and then assessing my battery usage/figure out what I approximate it to be in the future and then get another battery or two and scale up the invertor requirement accordingly? Near Glascote currently, slowly moving towards Macclesfield Yeah fairly recent BSS (September 2022). I'll try and track the wires and see where they go and do some reading up

Hi all, I think this has probably been covered before but I've had a good scroll and gotten into a muddle. I've currently got these batteries that came with the boat which should be isolated by this . With someone telling me to turn it to 1 to start the boat and then onto both when things are running and down to off at the bottom for turning them off. But when I put it on off the lights and stuff (e.g. bilge/water pumps) can still be used, which seems incorrect? Also are these compatible if I got something to tell me the level of charge I have, as well as an invertor (currently only got 12v) and maybe a solar panel? Currently I'm just taking that red wire off the light grey terminal when I leave which doesn't feel entirely safe (not sure if it's even necessary but I don't want to come back to a flat battery). There's also two random plugs that I don't know what they're for, one for I think a water heater I don't understand and some switches that don't seem to do anything. Am I best trying to trace the wiring to figure it all out or do I rip it all out/get some new batteries and just start again, and how easy is that all to do? Thanks so much!

Is there anything other than receipt of the previous sale I should ask to see?

Ahhh this is super thank you!

Hi, can I just check how to buy a boat which sounds silly but I've realised I don't know the running order. Do I buy the boat (private sale so just bank transfer and get them to sign a bill of sale type document?) then get insurance then get the crt licence and then the sellers contact crt and tell them the boat is mine?

Yeah that's the type of thing that concerns me. I was thinking if I got it and ended up having to get it overplated/it's a bit of a write off sinker how much do you reckon it could sell for?

this might be dumb but how quick would i find out if it's sinking?

Ahh thanks for the grp suggestion, I did consider them but I think the dream has always been a narrowboat I think I probably would be a full time liveaboard so would comprehensive be required? I guess it'd be all my worldly goods that could go down. Cost the same again as in another 12 somewhere down the line it just depends when it hits me? Hmmm she's debating that, which is the crux of the issue

Hi all. I'm just looking for a sense check really, I have a feeling you'll just say that it's up to me and you don't know the condition of a boat without a survey so you can't advise but basically I'm mulling over buying a 30ft 1971 (definitely 70s but it might be later) NB. The seller is willing to go to 12k for a quicker sale at my suggestion (it was 14k and the quicker sale is a logistics thing with various holidays between us) but that would be buying without a survey. I almost bought a boat last year but the survey came back poor and I dipped out but that one was £30,000. If say the hull was bust and I discovered that when I went to black it in a few months time (it hasn't been done in 4 years) how much might I be looking at for re/overplating? Does it seem like a good shout at this price with potential work or do you think it'll be more headache/wallet ache than it's worth? Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the matter!

Oh good luck!!

Oh I think I'd cry if that happened Yep I'll deffo get my own survey done, I just haven't got tons of spare cash so i wanted to be ready if there were things that anyone with boating experience instantly picked up on

Ahh okay cool thanks. Are the rubbing strakes not generally looked at during surveys? The boat is 28 and the survey was done in 2018

Hi, I'm looking at buying my first boat and this is some of the survey I was sent from the owner. I'm going to get my own done but I just wondered if anyone sees any immediate red flags? I'm kind of confused about the best hull thicknesses