MtB

Dunno. There are loadsa Achilles boats out and about! https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/harland-&-wolff-for-sale/782184

That's an easy one to answer. Most people living on CRT moorings are on 'below the radar' leisure moorings. What puzzles me faintly is why local councils don't spot this and set about enforcement.

Achilles is showing sold too now!

Looks to me very recently installed actually. Not sure it that's relevant...

The Bridgewater? No, hang on!!

Lol, you mean put the prices of moorings around here down?

I fear not, or the OP would not have needed to post. The hard bit is figuring out what still doesn't work. The new alternator, presumably. The art in writing clearly is to put oneself in the place of the reader. I think the OP perhaps not doing this quite as well some here can.

I'm only guessing but might you press the fuse button IN, then grip it with fingernails and pull it right OUT to get t the fuse? Or could they actually be circuit breakers that pop out on over-current? What does the back of the panel look like?

It seemed like half a lifetime!

Or even metal heath, which is what is written. I think a "voice to txt" app could be the culprit.

Difficult isn't it. I'd like to help as you would too, obviously. But ultimately one cannot help everybody. To start with the communications need to work and in this case, somehow they don't.

It was deffly 76, the long hot summer and drought. Stoopidly I asked Her Indoors to marry me and equally stoopidly she said YES, and we got married and moved onto our first boat the following summer in 1977. We split up shortly after, in 2012.

Are you using a 'voice to text' app to create your posts perhaps? Even with the spelling and punctuation amended, it's hard to understand what you mean. Here is my guess what you might have meant to post. Or something along these lines:

I'd be inclined to suggest 22mm as from memory of the photo, the floor bearers are a LONG way apart. But now I can't find the photo to have a look!

Dammit I was going to suggest "bendix".... then I realised you typed a lower case L not a capital i....

Any reason for the black sail? They are usually white ISTR.

I think you might have been doing it wrong then!!

Indeed. What would be worse than dying? Living forever, probably.

The problem as I see it with HS2, is it was conceived to raise capacity but politicians spending Other People's Money decided they wanted it fast too. So to make it fast, the lines had to be straighter which prevents them being routed around or even over hills, valleys etc so tunnels and viaducts have to be built instead of following the landscape like a slower railway line could do. Equals massive extra expense. Just my casual impression without really doing any research.

How do the brakes work on a sail boat?

Although sometimes I wonder if anything much would change, were their funding to be doubled.

I do get the impression that some examiners are (understandably) pretty focussed on whether they might end up in court defending their decision to issue a "Pass". Consequently they are as pleased to meet and assess the boater for safe attitudes as for compliance of the boat. A boat belonging to a total airhead might possibly get a more thorough inspection... But who knows!!

Indeed. I had a casual chat with a chap who seemed to be having a bit of trouble mooring one of those up and he told me he was finding it much more of a handful than he expected, and certainly trickier than the navy ship he commands for the day job. Said he just stands on the bridge issuing commands normally, and everything happens smoothly as commanded, but on the NB he had to do everything himself!

Yes I find as Bengo finds. If filling the water tank brings the uxter plate up to the waterline or slightly above water (even just a little bit, right at the stern), engaging astern results in large volumes of bubbles, gurgling and the impression a lot of slowing down is going on, when in actual fact there is naff-all stopping happening (technical term). On the other hand if your uxter stays 2" underwater, I doubt you'll notice any reduction in stopping power.