MtB

Me too. In my experience of life, companies whose marketing departments 'sail close to the wind' with excessive and improbable claims tend to have a well-rehearsed response to complaints from customers seeking to get their money back, usually centred on blaming the customer for not using their product quite right. Its 'well rehearsed' because it isn't the odd customer here and there, it is every single customer they ever had.

Well said Arthur. For most of us the BSS, like insurance, is just a piece of paper we have to have, simply to get a license. I suspect the number of people badly injured or killed by boats with a current but invalid BSS made invalid by changes since the last BSS inspection is vanishingly small. Zero in fact, I wouldn't mind betting. Its a non-problem made up by bureaucrats whose raison d'être is to make up rules for others to follow at no cost to themselves.

Also, only drive to places that are downhill all the way. This is a best fuel-saving tip of all, and you forgot to mention it Bizz. Are you losing your touch??!

Really? In that case I oppose them!!

I think nowadays they are being wasted in litres.

The new proposals you are arguing against only exist as a phantasy in the corporate mind of the AWCC, so can be safely discounted.

I think the 70 limit had been in force a few years by then. My great uncle Jack died in about 1965 and his will specified his funeral cortege was to drive at 100mph for ten miles on the recently opened stretch of the M1 past Bedford and MK. (He liked his fast cars.) Sadly the national speed limit of 70mph came in a few days before the funeral and the hearse driver refused to go over 70mph, sadly. I think in the 73 fuel crisis, the national speed limit was lowered to 50mph.

Probably cause by the optimism being expressed that the Russia/Ukraine talks today might yield some progress. Also, that Boris will succeed in sweet-talking the Saudis into raising production as part of the plan to freeze Russia out of the global fuels market.

Quite right. But given some stops need to be pulled out, and others pushed in to make the engine run, the OP's reluctance to engage in a conversation made finding out pretty well impossible.

Excellent news! Does this mean I can cancel my two CRT long term moorings but stay on them and save myself £600 a month? Brilliant.... All my neighbours will think so too.

I'm sure most posters here would agree that boaters "already struggling" should therefore be excused having a BSS inspection, especially now Alan has helpfully informed us it is a "jobs for the boys" sheme. Only those who can comfortably afford it should be subject to any safety inspection regime. Yes?

Still a time waster, as they seemed to think posting on a tablet was an acceptable reason for ignoring half the enquiries for better details.

That is totally untenable as a business proposition. Three weeks time spent training involving three different sites widely spread over the uk, plus £5k in fees to shell out in order to earn half what a plumber or electrician typically makes. You have a fine sense of humour!

I think he has. There was definitely at least a photo of a tank filler cap with the hexagon socket in the cap one sometimes sees, and that seems to have gone. Also there was a pic of a Morse control and a stop pull.

I agree with you up to the last bit. Yes it is a total farce but a flawed and farcical scheme riddled with weaknesses is still better than no scheme at all. At least it ensures some of the worst and most obvious risks get spotted and dealt with once every four years instead of never. I also suspect many BSS inspectors have little respect for all the trivia they are supposed to check for and are more skilled than you realise in 'taking a view', i.e. assessing both the boat and the boater for overall safety. Rather this than checking line-by-line every single one of the minutiae in the regs whih would take all day, as they do actually need to balance this with making a living.

Commercial vessels are a very different kettle of fish though, don't you think? In use daily and carrying employees who have little choice in whether to work on the (dangerous, or safe) boat. Its perfectly justifiable that commercial vessels should be inspected to a higher standard than leisure boats that spend 99% of their time bobbing about unused in a marina.

We still don't know if the engine ever started and ran after the service. Or if the OP has ever been able to start it since buying the boat. It would be most helpful in coming up with some relevant suggestions instead of random guesses if the OP could get hold of a computer and type out a proper history of his ownership and use of the boat and how the fault developed. Or say so if there is none, instead of this drip, drip, drip of tiny snippets of info typed on a tablet.

Oh dear, another one who resents being asked for further information and seems to expect to be spoon-fed with an instant solution.

Last night I dreamed I'd written the novel "Lord of the Rings"... but it turned out I was just Tolkien in my sleep.

There is a new series coming out soon, called Peaky Bolinders...

You have a telly???!! Outrageous decadence....

My gas lamps chuck out half a kW each, and I have three. Trouble is, it can be 30c at ceiling level and 10c down on the floor. Until I light the stove to get the Ecofan going, that is.... <Tin hat on>

Drip feeding crucial information into a thread asking for help never endears new posters to people here!

Hmmm, and you're making no connection with this?

I've had a great idea. I'm gonna take the 220bhp V6 engine out of my van and fit a second hand washing machine motor instead. I'll connect it up to the battery and fit a solar panel on the roof to recharge it. Free motoring, I'm a GENIUS!! No negativity from you lot now, ok?