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Easily. I often forget to turn the greaser for days on end with no ill effects. Don't tell anyone...

In which case my bet is your pipe is actually 1/4", which is 6.35mm. A 6mm olive won't go over a 6.35mm pipe.

Where are you? Not Banbury by any chance?!

OMG, you're beginning to get it! 🙄

Self-evidently wrong.

Self-evidently wrong.

Ah yes, the NAA. That needs reviewing too. 9% is ridiculously cheap and needs putting up. It costs CRT an absolute FORTUNE to provide the canal, without which the marinas would have no boats and no business.

Maybe refer the author of the dictionary to my post then, lol!

I suspect that entering a narrow lock at a fair lick then engaging astern and revving the engine with enthusiasm, can lead to the rudder snapping across to full deflection and the handle of an over-long tiller catching the lock wall while the boat is still travelling forwards. Especially if the steerer is not expecting it and does not have a really good grip on the tiller.

I hold that if you're writing in English, the plural is "forums". If you're spouting forth in Latin, the plural is "fora". Hope that helps... 😃

I may have been one. I usually intend to use diesel mostly for heating when I buy it.

I have quite a few propellers lying around in my hovel, within a few feet of me. I'll have a measure. First prop, a Crowther prop made for my Kelvin K1 is 71.0mm outside diameter at the fat end of the boss. Second prop is 66mm outside diameter. This is off a lifeboat that had a Lister HRW2 in it. It is actually bigger in diameter at the centre than at either end. Peaking at about 70mm I'd guess but my vernier won't reach. Third prop is of uncertain origin and the boss is really bulbous in shape. The machined flat area at the end for the nut and washer to bear on is 58.8mm diameter but the centre of the boss is closer to 85mm.

Being a river with a PRN, maybe there is no obligation to have insurance to get a rivers only registration. Just a guess, I don't know.

All valves in my experience have their problems with advancing age.

Did not quite a few get installed in lighthouses? Or is that an urban myth? It strikes me that owners (or more particularly, sellers) are free to make up whatever tosh they like about the origins of their engine, in cases where there is no supporting documentation!

I think if you drill down into the legislation it actually requires one to declare "Intended Use", i.e. the use in the future of what you're buying now. Not what the current batch already in the tank is being used for. So if you intend your next purchase of fuel to be 100% domestic, because the tank is currently half full of say 60/40, who is in any position to prove you wrong about your intentions at the point of purchase? You might however, change your mind later...

There are two fatties which have been hogging the 48hr moorings here for months.

I don't think that will get you far with the fixed 60/40 retailers. Their refusal to budge on this originates from the right of any business to sell to whomever they like or not, under whatever terms of business they choose to impose. There is no legal obligation on the marina to "treat" with you to sell fuel on your terms as opposed to theirs. If you choose to make a PITA of yourself over it, you might find yourself with no mooring at all when it comes to renewal time.

Yep, agree with all of that. The OP is going to have to go to considerable trouble to avoid paying the 60/40 split whichever alternative approach to getting fuel s/he decides use. I'd suggest just sucking it up and paying the split.

I can imagine that snapping off at the point it joins the brass tiller bar, if being pushed hard over in a manoeuvre with a fair it of power on. With the resultant risk of the steerer taking a look.

Another option might be to order some red diesel/gas oil from one of the domestic fuel suppliers who will deliver it in a tanker. E.g. https://www.boilerjuice.com/uk Minimum delivery size happens to be 500 litres, conveniently. Currently about £1 a litre plus 5% VAT for my area. Yours might be different.

That is SUCH a ridiculous word! Even though the meaning is appropriate, lol. Just as the term "Solicitrix" is ridiculous for a.... go on have a guess... (or look it up)!

So as a newbie then, you hardly know anything yet.