MtB

The auction system is a complete farce. What CRT didn't realise when initially started auctioning moorings, is boaters already on mooring would put in low-ball bids, much lower than they were already paying, and sometimes win the auction. Then they would cancel their current mooring agreement and get the new one at a lower cost. Then their now-vacant mooring would be auctioned and another boater would bid low, etc etc and the net effect was a new, much lower market value for the whole site. To stop this effect, CRT now set auction starting prices at the same level as other boaters on the site are currently paying, and if a space doesn't sell CRT claim it is 'not financially viable' for them to rent it at a lower price than the auction start price and they would rather it stayed empty. This is a half-truth at best in my opinion.

Seconded. The main reason it being a "lovely quiet area" though is, there is no mobile phone signal, at all. This might colour the OP's choice... :) Thrupp on the other hand, has all the same attributes and is a lovely place to live, with phone signal. Evidenced by the decades-long waiting list for a mooring....

Thank you for your kind comments. Very nice to hear and such a contrast to the relentless criticism of the board and board members by the likes of Gybe Ho and TruckCab79.

But there IS a difference. The H&S regs are needed because otherwise people at work are (used to be?) instructed to carry out dangerous tasks/practises as part of their employment. Volunteers restoring canals, interfering with boaters going through locks, or whatever, are their own bosses. "My husband was killed/injured in an accident volunteering, restoring a canal" isn't quite the same, somehow.

The OP says the cover labelled "Fuse" presses in but does not pop out. Hence the question.

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.