MtB

Erm... who on earth wants to be 'normal'?

Forgive my cynicism but I always imagined MPs pensions were non-contributory and funded from general taxation.

The thing that I'd like to hear or read about is what the victim said to Amesbury to provoke the attack. Amesbury is heard to have repeatedly said the victim threatened him. One wonders about what. Something to do with the bridge one would guess, but it's hard to imagine what that threat could have been to justify a physical attack!

Whereas you are, I would hazard to guess, an ex rocker?

Don't feed the... Oh never mind.

Why would cash-starved CRT give a stuff about overseas visitors coming here?!

Changed my mind in the light of TrackCab's post. Which I note is yet another post criticising posters he doesn't like, instead of answering or trying to help the OP.

Changed my mind.

Go on then... where does it say that government funding requires CRT to be "encourging boating" then?

Yes. In fact I'll happily take them down to 10% SoC. (LFP, see?!) 😁

Point Of Order... It doesn't matter how big or how small the bank is, with a "suitable charge source" it still takes the same amount of time to "fully charge" a battery bank from a given state of discharge. In my own experience its more like 12 hours to get from 50% SoC to fully charged*. * Depending on what one considers 'fully charged'. One can always squeeze just a leetle bit more in, can one not?

Blimey. Thanks for that! From the product data sheet: "The ACT Chrome is an intelligent battery tester, designed for 12V lead acid batteries from 1.2Ah to 200Ah. The ACT Chrome contains advanced pulsed load analysis technology to accurately measure the available Ah capacity based on the battery's temperature and state of charge." That's one helluva claim which with no further explanation I find rather unbelievable. On the other hand the device is reassuringly expensive so I'm inclined to think they must be onto something! How is it measuring the battery temperature? Curious now. Is it something to do with them brass cylinders on the test probes perhaps? (Not expecting you to have answers but I'm really intrigued now!)

Eh? How on earth did it work that out? This is the Holy Grail of portable battery testers. Establishing the real capacity of a battery without fully discharging it and counting the AHs!

Silly boy. Anyone can see how much you like it here which is why you spend so much time here and why your post count here is so high in such a short time. And yet you've never been seen on FB or Insta despite how great it is over there. Or so you say!

I don't need to, I have one already. The boys at Brinklow even put a new bottom on it for me a few years ago!

Congrats Junior! Lovely bow shape. Mildly puzzles me why there is no-one building new boats with this beautifully elegantly shape. I guess its because its three feet longer than the squashed up short bow shape most modern boats have, done to maximise cabin space I guess.

They probably lose a lot less income than the cost of wear and tear on the system caused by their hire boaters. The less the system gets used the lower the maintenance costs, so hire boat companies packing it in probably suits CRT just fine.

And yet you and truckcab are still here, unable to find these mythical more civilized parts of the internet obviously. Let alone provide links to them!

CRT's task in the future is to manage the decline of the canal system into dereliction, obviously.

And Equals disaster in every way. As others have said, do what works. Give some thought to why there are not already lots of electric powered azipod driven boats on the system, if it was a viable concept. My advice is buy a narrowboat that is standard in every way, i.e. similar to the boat you hired, as this is what we know works.

Pathetic flow rate for say, a shower!

The pipe is for filling a battery??!!!!!

The flow rate will be miniscule. Whether that actually matters depends on what the pipe is required to do. The OP is silent on the matter...