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That's curious. I am under the impression that salvage cover is all that CRT actually require when pressed on what counts as TPI. It seems odd if that is not the case.

It was rumoured back in the day that Chris Pink has as many as 11 aliases on here, and would construct whole threads arguing with himself. Lovely bloke in real life, apparently.

Not wishing to be doing the egg sucking thing, but are you confident your alternator is working correctly? Back in the day I bought a new batt for my car whilst casually dismissing the idea the alternator wasn't doing its stuff as the red light went out correctly. Guess what happened a few days later!

Beware of this lot if you select their Third Party insurance option - it appears not to include salvage costs. So CRT are likely to reject it as a qualifying policy.

What about the Gran on the Clapham wotsit?

And a radio warning would have achieved what, exactly? I think they would have been less than about five minutes before it became visually apparent that a collision was inevitable. I would not be surprised if a cacophony of radio calls was filling the airwaves if they couldn't get the autopilot turned off and the Stena Immaculate couldn't move out of the way that quick. This is reminding me of that bridge the was demolished recently by a ship.

Given the RNLI rescued 32 souls abandoning the two ships, one would have thought at least one of them might have been awake and noticing/looking where they were going, in addition to the bod who ought to have been on watch but wasn't. Unless as mentioned upthread, nobody on duty knew how the turn the autopilot off. So despite their best efforts the ship ploughed on, so to speak.

Training their AI to sneak past mods, I'd suggest. Worked fine in this case, clearly.

You're not spamming us at all, are you?

These two statements seem incompatible. Either it self-vents, or it needs a manual (or automatic) air vent. Otherwise it would never fill up with coolant! Point is, if air/gas cannot escape from the skin tank, that air pocket in the skin tank will get ever bigger if combustion gas is leaking into the coolant system, and more gas in the skin tank expands more when it heats up. And this seems consistent with the symptoms you report. As DMR occasionally points out, most engine faults can be diagnosed by considering the symptoms and thinking about it. In fact should be, before taking stuff to bits.

So what happens when a BSS bod 'renews' his ticket? Is it just a one day exam? Or is there a week of 'correction' first, going through some sort of revision process? Or (heaven forbid!) dissecting his or her history of complaints about fail tickets issued? How often do BSS bods have to 'renew'? I was unaware they ever needed to.

Surely renewing a BSS examiner tikcet should only be necessary to take account of changes to the regs. This is why us gas bods are told we must renew, because so much stuff changes in a five year period!

Does the skin tank self-vent? I had this on a boat with a manual air vent on the skin tank and opening the vent revealed that gas was accumulating in the skin tank. Venting it made the problem go away for a while but it would return after a few hours as more gas buitl up. I concluded there was a cylinder head crack as the box of spares for the engine contained several used head gaskets. I fixed it the quick and pragmatic way - an auto air vent on the skin tank. No more coolant loss!

Me too, or a blown head gasket. Mainly because of the OP saying this: Which I suspect might have been steam, and I haven't noticed anyone else commenting on. Looks like a boat well worth avoiding to me, unless blisteringly cheap as £10k might need spending on it to put it right. On the other hand the cause might be trivial but my gut feeling is this engine has had the problem for many years and has probably seized from overheating many times already! BMC engines seem able to recover from overheat seizing with ease in my limited experience but it can't do them any good at all. Point is, this sounds to me like a boat for someone very familiar with and resources for fixing BMCs themselves, rather than someone like the OP who sounds like they will be dependent on paying others to do it.

Yes that was my point. They seem to have picked up this reason not to move almost immediately they bought the boat! And it's a reason CRT find hard to argue with I'd imagine. Even though I'd also imagine a coot would find somewhere else to nest pretty easily given it will have been in the tire (SIC) for less than two weeks....

I thought that too. I thought the start of the article was a bit hyperbolic though. I've never heard rats screaming at night when I'm aboard. (I bet that comment gets the link a few more views!)

Fast learners and born natural CMers... "Coots had decided to make a nest in the tires on the side of the boat. It is illegal to disturb a birds nest, which meant we couldn’t move the boat."

Even so, the fact the rudder stock is pained nice and shiny grey and its a different shade of grey from the ramshead, suggests the two might have been separated for painting, so your previous suggestion of pint where it shouldn't be might yet turn out correct.

"You" don't. The BMS inside decides! As beautifully explained by Cheesy above!

I'd suggest a BMS HAS to just disconnect the charge source only, or a 'drop-in' LFP would be ruined on the first (and only) high voltage disconnect. If it disconnected the discharge too, thee would be no way to discharge it once over-charged and carry on using it.

And I thought I could be awkward sometimes!!

2.5 years of wrangling about the money, then 6 months actually doing it, you mean? Could be right given the idea of concrete troughs made off site.

An aqua duck!! Brilliant idea. Where did you discover this? Its very encouraging if this means TPTB are thinking constructively about it.

As Cheesy points out, it depends what you mean by "don't like". Some other type of better battery will probably be have invented before you get through 4,000 cycles and they fail. But I think there is a misunderstanding here. LFPs don't 'mind' being charged to 100%, but they don't like being stored at 100% SoC for long periods. Whatever 'long periods' means, lol!