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Very difficult indeed. Don't even consider it. Find a boat with the walls (or 'bulkheads' to use the right term) in the right place.

I find it dead easy. The CMers spend months at a stretch on the 48hr VMs.

Dyslexic boaters of the world, untie!

I used to think it smelled fantastic! But then I love the smell of road tar too. And creosote. Lux was all girlie.

An EXCELLENT stop-gap solution!!

The correct size pipe will be a lovely accurate and snug fit into the hole in the greaser connection. I reckon some muppet bodged your 1/4" pipe in with possibly a 5/16" olive (the correct size for the fitting) which was never going to crush down enough to grip the 1/4" pipe, which is why it all fell apart and also why the olive came off the pipe. Shame you're Stratford. Not that far but completely the opposite direction from my destination!

Yes, 1.65mm too big. (Engineering clearances notwithstanding!) But looking at the photo again, I reckon you have a compression fitting on the greaser designed for 5/16" pipe and the pipe you actually have is 1/4", which is why it fell out in the first place. The 1/4" olive would have been able to squeeze through the 5/16" hole in the nut. You need someone to actually measure the pipe and the fitting to determine the sizes. Then once known, decide on a sound method of connecting it all up. I was in Banbury this afternoon and was about to set off down the M40 home when I asked where you are, just on the off chance you were nearby or en-route.

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.