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Just phoned a local supplier. To buy 400L its 0.67.5 problem is they wont deliver to boats any more they are worried about spillage but you can drive up there and fill containers at 70p a litre. I'm now wondering how much I would save on £90 worth if I bought it at 70p (havn't got my maths head on)

82p a litre from Dusty South Oxford today

Hi Chris, If anything I have been using less power as have been out and about, at weekends anyway, and now I turn off the inverter when not using it. I just fired engine up cos the solar regulator said 11.6/7 as soon as I put the wires on the altternator, the current meter shot up to 75amps and the solar meter read UBAT 14.0v at 70% now, what 5 min later its reading 13.7v and 90%. Does this mean anything to you? Wendy

I was always led to believe it was 3ft, just incase gas went up or fire spreading from boat to boat, although most of our boats on mooring are now bumper to bumper.

Can't believe I am having the same old problem again. Had the 3 batteries drop tested before adding another one to the bank, all worked perfectly untill recently and now I'm back to the same old running engine for hours and hours again. the cable Amp meter is reading 50 - 75 when I fire up the engine, my solar pannel control unit reads at first 14.1 then a minute later 13.9 and then 13.8. Turned the engine off at 8pm last night after running engine for 8 hours and at 8. 30am the batteries are flat as pancakes again. Greedy telly on for 5 hours laptop on longer, fridge, + 1 D light for a short time Any ideas please Don't forget I have 4 solar panels, 2X 70 watt and 2X 75 watt, they would of been putting in a bit even in the bad weather.

It was so nice to have a boat come past our moorings slowly last Friday. It is so rare and this year for some reason seems to be worse than ever for speeding boats. I wonder if it is because there are more marinas, where these people don't experience what its like to have boats speed past them. The worst round here are definitely BW work boats, had one scrape the whole length of my boat last week Anyway thanks again to The Henry George

Housing Benefit will pay mooring and licence fees BUT the catch is,........ you have to have a mooring to get it.

What the boating families used to use in the old days was.......................Ashes out the fire, it works and then if you don't want to be bothered with doing it regularly, smear Vaseline over it. I think a lacquer would possibly crack in hot sunny weather.

You can't just go around accusing people because they look a bit dodgy, unless someone actually saw them doing it (you said there was no one around all the time you were out) do you have a CCT camera on the go when your not there? Our moorings are a mess at times, including my own, I'm not well off, look a bit different but no way would I nick anyones diesel. It could make people really paranoid to moor up next to a loan boat anywhere in case they are accused of something they have not done

Hello Pete, on line piled mooring on Canal, It is on the waterline and below, when the boat was in the water, you could see lots of bright orange splodges just below the waterline. Wendy

Hi Albi, The boat is 62ft. It did have anodes fitted either 6 or more than likely 10 years ago, they have worn down to just the metal strip, how long ago they wore out god knows, No just a BT line Wendy

One of my neighbours has just taken his boat to boatyard, they pressure washed it, then said it was badly pitted both sides below the water line but didn't think it needed over plating, mainly because of the age of the boat. He has been in touch with a surveyor on the phone, he said, he didn't think there would be any need for a survey, again because of the age. Now his boat has been sat on the mooring for 10 years only moving about 3 times (to turn round) and once 6 years ago to get boat out of the water. Is it right that the electrolisis his hull has suffered has nothing to do with the 7KVA generator he runs from the land (in a shed) daily and 2000watt inverter? I was always led to believe that this would effect the hull also the fact of it being constantly static would not help. The surveyor did say that he would go and have a look at it today and see if he thought it needed a survey doing. This thing about the boat not needing a survey because it is only 10 years old and the fact it is 10/6/4 I find a bit strange. In the past a surveyor told me of a boat needed replating when it was only just over a year old.

I was thinking the same thing. Had you just dipped your tank before they pulled up?

It wasn't Big Pit in Wales by any chance was it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...-collapses.html How Tragic, Its a hell of a big crane.

A friend of mine from Springfield, did the trip first time with SPCC, the next time he was heading into Limehouse in his Dutch Barge, he hit the wall and his friend went plop into the river. Scarey stuff

About 10 - 15 years ago, maybe longer, Magic Roundabout used to be the warden boat for Thrupp Canal Cruising Club, Tel 01865 379285. I believe it was then sold to Steve (with one leg) who lived on it, there was a fire on it, one Christmas but they still lived on it eventually sold it while they were in Wolvercote. I'm pretty sure they changed the name of it as well.

Some people on our moorings have been lighting their fires on a regular basis in the last week or so and have seemed to give up on the fact, that we are ever going to get a summer this year. I havn't lit mine yet and have never lit my fire in July in the past, although I was tempted to do so yesterday. Anyone out there had their fires on this month?

Corse you don't get wafers

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