Jen-in-Wellies

If it is a simple, cheap no-name ebay type LED voltmeter, it may not be too accurate. I tried one, as it was free and it is typically reading 0.2V different from the voltage given by the Victron battery monitor. I'd trust the Victron more, though none has been calibrated against a traceable standard. Are you getting anything like low voltage beeping warnings from say an inverter, or the 12V fridge?

It may be that your current cruising habits mean the boat doesn't need any solar charging. Do you have any way of measuring your typical Amp.Hour consumption over a weekend away? Something like a Victron battery monitor? When you are away, do you typically cruise for some hours a day each day, or do you go a short distance on Friday, then moor up for the weekend and return on Sunday? What you need to find out is how deeply discharged your batteries get. How much of the nominal 3x225Ahr capacity are you using before it gets recharged. Once the boat is back in the marina, the shore line battery charger will get them fully charged again and minimise sulphation risk. You just need to make sure you aren't too deeply discharging them over a weekend away. Are you running the engine for battery charging, rather than cruising during the weekend? What makes you decide it is time to start engine charging? Jen Also, amps per hour isn't a thing. 200W at 12V is 17 Amps. Over an hour, this would be 17Ahr taken from the batteries. Two hours, 34Ahr and so on. An electrical pedant thing!

Someone has taken inspiration from @TheBiscuits avatar. https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/new-buoyancy-bike-business-on-wroxham-broad-7871072

Particularly if it is now a different distance away from the leading edge of the rudder.

Not to bad actually. Centre punch a divot to start the drill, then used a brand new 3mm bit to go through and opened up with a 4mm. Stainless can be a pig to drill, but these were surprisingly easy. Also gets round the non-PC name. Just being breedist now, not racist. You can buy a collie hat.

When you drive over speed bumps, the road is getting a bit choppy.

The only sort of fancy narrowboaty type chimney worth buying are stainless steel and double skinned. The double skin stops a lot of the tar going on to the roof and the stainless steel means it last more than one winter. Definitely. We need a new name for these hats. I wasn't happy with it. A bit of an ethnic and class based slur on lower class Chinese people, left over from British empire days. I did have a Blue Peter badge, back in the 70's. Presented by the great man himself, the late John Noakes.

Yesterday, not today. A new coolie hat. Tried cleaning the winters accumulated tar off the outside of the stainless steel chimney. I've previously used oven cleaner for this, but the stuff I used this time was useless and didn't touch it. When rinsing it off in the cut, the old dog bowl coolie hat finally parted company with the chimney. Off to the local pet supplies store for a new stainless steel dog bowl. £1.99. Cut some 1mm thick stainless steel straps from a sheet I had. Pop riveted on. The straps were made long so the rivets would go in to the outer skin of the chimney, but not the inner and hopefully last longer. It isn't the most aesthetically pleasing, but it should work. You can't see the paw prints and bones embossed in to the stainless steel at normal distances. It isn't as obviously a repurposed something else as the converted frying pan I once used! I still need to clean the tar off...

If it does collapse, it will be a prime spot for magnet fishing. Hey. I've got another girder!

The video the OP gave shows what I call a houseboat, rather than a boat, but there looks to be a Haswing electric outboard fitted, so they are movable to a limited extent. I am guessing that the RCD and UK version apply, but if his brother in law is building these in Poland, then these rules apply anyway. I've embedded his YouTube link below. They look rather nice. Won't fit on many UK canals, but if you can get past the planning system, then a lot of lakes, rivers and larger canals that would suit. If the size of the market is worth it for them with the Brexit hassles I don't know. Best of luck with the venture.

The Craftmaster Raddles seem to provide a smooth, yet non slip surface.

The metermacs web site and back end processing appears to be held together with chewing gum and string. It regularly goes kaboom. A long bank holiday weekend as well.

What is the tube made from? What outside diameter?

I've gone through several of the type @Feeby100 links to. They work well. The weak point seem to be the actuator for the microswitch that disables the spin motor and activates the spin drum brake when the lid is lifted. The plastic around the actuator flexes and eventually breaks, preventing the microswitch from closing and activating the spin motor. In six months of planned use, you are unlikely to see a problem with this. On my current washer, I've bypassed both the microswitch and spin brake, as they are broken and just have to remember not to get my fingers torn off by sticking them in the spin drum before it has stopped. Jen

There is a suitable tug and jeebus for sale at the moment. £40,000 all in. The Suez Canal navigation people need to get their offer in.

No idea what the white flexible compound is, but I'd incralac the parts, then assemble them. Coating afterwards would leave areas with no lacquer hidden in the joints, from which tarnish can start, or moisture get underneath the lacquer.

Maybe you are watching a video that simulates YouTube freezing, but everything is actually fine.

Can't see why people here are doubting a story in the journal of record, the Suffolk Gazette. The logical next step would be to weld a hydrodynamic bow and stern section on to each container. They could then be pulled along with ropes by camels walking on some sort of path alongside the Suez Canal. Alternatively, one container could be provided with an engine and propeller in the stern section and could pull along another container with a rope. Some crazy people would want to live in the containers. Journalists would write rose tinted articles about these people and their weird homes in the down market press, but not the Suffolk Gazette, which is much too sensible.

This instruction is applicable to so much in life, not just stern gland packing. ?

Possibly also that the packing diameter was too small. How did you select the packing size? Did you measure the gap it was to go in?

Victron VDI-16 is suitable for the typical inland marina 16A supply. Not much more expensive than the one you were looking at. Victron generally know their stuff, so blue boxes are usually a safe bet. This will need installing inside the boat. Jen

First they crash in to things, then they speed and damage the banks with their wash. Does the corporate ownership structure effectively make this a hire boat? If there were weights 8' wide, 8'6" high and between 20 and 40' long that would be ideal.