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I too have a car radio with Bluetooth in the boat. I have Spotify and BBC Sounds apps installed on my phone which then plays via the car radio and its speakers via the bluetooth connection. Play volume, station, music choice etc are then all controlled directly on the phone handset. Sounds more complicated written down than it actually is. Well worth trying.

Thanks for the report. Frankly, its beginning to sound to me as though it will never be re-opened if you are right about the fears of more landslips. Such a decision would explain the lack of progress so far, and no work going on.

Yes. And then, once the off-load voltage has been confirmed as high enough, the voltage with the key turned to 'cranking' (starting) position please. So far we have focussed on how much it drops by. But the battery voltage might hardly drop at all when the key is held in the start position, in which case this indicates solenoid switch failure or worn out brushes to me. But you know more than I do! Also, giving the starter motor a sharp clout with something heavy (but not metal) will sometimes get a starter motor doing this working again temporarily.

The forest of "blue signs" have been a bit of an own goal in this respect. Its certainly a subject used again and again to support the assertion that money is being wasted that should have been spent on maintaining the navigation, and the blue signs are half the reason for poor state of the system. So let's do a 'fag packet' calculation... I reckon they have put up an average of about 20 blue signs per mile over the whole system. All 2000 miles of it. Now lets imagine each of these signs cost, say, £300. 2,000 x 20 x £300 = £12m. Hardly even a dent in the funding shortfall of £400m a year, is it?

And what is this "good voltage", I find myself wondering...

Amen to that! ALL boaters should pay £10 a night to moor their boat in CRT water, not just the Home Moorers.

I wondered about asking which photo was the 'after'.... Then decided it wasn't a very good joke.

Thats not a houseboat. That's a MANSIONboat!

Let me get this straight. You think CRT should: 1) Spend more on maintaining the canal system in a navigable condition 2) Charge boaters less Do I have that about right?

A trivially small sum plus 75% = still a trivially small sum. NBTA whining about a small increase in charges for the cheapest accommodation in the UK seems comical. If one believes the 75% claim in the first place. Isn't the increase spread out over 5 years or something similarly accommodating? CRT as usual are bending over backwards to be accommodating, and yet getting slagged off for it.

Um… aren’t CCers technically homeless anyway?

And I wonder what they will say!!!

What is gas water? Or if there is a missing comma, would water really have been moved around by boat? Thanks. Answering my own question maybe it was "water gas". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gas

Oh you spoiled the joke!

Google will usually tell you what a TLA means.

How do you know they are licenced?

Ah now another poster here does this too. Claims to have been joking when called out on posts containing a load of ol' tosh!

Please post up your evidence for these two assertions. Much obliged. Otherwise they look like blind prejudice.

Thinking laterally one could swerve all these problems by putting the motive force on the bank, and pulling the boat along with a line. I'm surprised no-one has thought of this before. That nice Mr De Bono would have been delighted with this solution

I've been accused of being both a "Shiny Boater" and a "Scruffy Boater" by different people on the same day, and on the same boat lol!! And BTW I used to get by without running the genny for 9 months of the year on 560W of solar when I lived off grid. P.S. I agree though, a shiny boat is more likely to give one grief than a scruffy one. P.P.S. I never polish my brass despite having two home moorings and living on the bank!

In that case you'll probably cope fine. The carpentry is only 25% of the story. All bulkhead building involves repairing the floor finish (both sides), repairing the deckhead (ceiling) finish where the removed bulkhead was, and same for the cabin side finish. Also lighting and switching can be affected, and windows get in the way. In addition nearly every bulkhead worth moving involves the galley and/or the shower room! And often a door.... Nothing is EVER simple where boat alterations are concerned. Forgot to say, bear in mind all work on boats takes three times as long as your worst estimate, and costs three times as much. Hope that helps, lol!

My thinking was that somebody needing to ask, probably does not have that skillset. Therefore it will be the expensive option of employing someone! Or if attempting it themselves for the first time, it will be slow and the mistakes expensive too.