monkeyhanger

Well THAT made me smile! Thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Do I need to remove the end of the pump to access these?

Hello All, apologies if this has been asked before. I have just started to get my boat ready for its summer cruise. It hasn't been used since last September. When I switched on the water pump it ran continually and wouldn't stop. It's a Par Max 2.9, about 5 years old, and hasn't had a lot of use, as the boat is only used May-September. I've checked for leaks and everything is OK. I keep a spare pump ( a Shurflo in this case) and when I swapped them over it worked as it should, cutting out at a reasonable pressure, so I reckon this tells me that the the expansion vessel is doing its job. Is it possible to adjust the Par Max? I could take the control end off to have a look, but I'm concerned that I may disturb a seal of some kind. Any info or advice gratefully received.

As I'm not very electrically minded, may I clarify something? Is it the general consensus of the group that as long as other boats in the moorings have GIs, they will be protected, and the one without one will be the one to suffer any galvanic action, if at all?

We are a self governed group of about 20 boats in a private basin. Because of the close proximity of moored boats ( in some cases about 6 inches apart), we decided that, for our own well being, each of our boats should have a galvanic isolator. Most boats have one which plugs into the mains cable. I think they may be "Safeshore" brand.

Yes. I assume all the boats will be plugged into the same ringmain.

There is a boat on our moorings which consists of two narrowboats side by side a foot apart, and held together by wooden beams. The boat is unoccupied but sometimes has an electrical connection via a plug in land line. It doesn't have a galvanic isolator at the moment, but due to the proximity of other moored boats I feel it should have one. The type which plugs into the landline would be the easiest to fit, but are they suitable, and what sort of amperage would I need to get? Any thoughts and recommendations gratefully received.

I left my boat at Scarisbrick Marina (twice) for a week or so last summer when I visited Liverpool. Nice place, very helpful people and very secure.

As you're in Tamworth, you could contact either Alvecote Marina or Glascote Basin to sell it for you. That may be convenient for you.

I believe that manual stipulates an oil change every 250 hours. That's what I do on mine anyway. If you have a dry sump engine that's 6 gallons per change, which is not cheap.

Martin Kedian may be able to help.

Sorry, I don't have my puller anymore. A few years ago someone else requested the loan of a puller, so I searched my garage where I thought it should be to no avail. I must have loaned it out at some stage and not got it back. Sorry! I would have thought that if you contacted some boatyards or engineering workshops you'd find one, or something similar which could be adapted to do the job. Good luck!

You may be lucky, but I doubt you will remove a liner with any pieces of wood involved. When I removed the liners from my JP, I had to use some pretty substantial pieces of steel to make up a puller, and to actually REMOVE the liner using 25mm threaded bar I had to use my longest breaker bar, extended with a trolley jack handle, which itself was extended with a piece of scaffolding tube. I've since decided that the secret is to put some tension (quite a bit) on the puller, then leave it for 24 hours, then add some more tension, leave again, and so on.

This is on the Leeds and Liverpool canal at (I seem to remember) Hancock's swing bridge. I arrived there at 2.15pm to find the bridge not working. After 3 phone calls to CART and being shuffled from dept. to dept, someone eventually rang me back to inform me that the bridge is closed from 2pm until 6pm. "It's on the sign" Well, I'm afraid it isn't.

I take your point, but this was lockside at Diglis. Hardly a wildlife rich area. It seemed pretty pointless to me at the time.

Fradley Junction. Instructions on how to operate a swing bridge.......1 Open bridge. 2 Take boat through. 3 Close bridge. Glad they told me that otherwise I'd have been stuck. And another waste of space at Fradley junction. Meanwhile, the tap next to the sign was leaking badly.

How about this one? I've seen a few of these around the system.

EP80 or EP90 should be ok

What engine is it attached to, please? I suspect that there are many variations of a Blackstone 2:1 box.

I watched the film this morning, although I had previously seen it years ago. A simple film, but heartwarming. Can anyone tell me the real names of the boats portrayed in the film, please? I am aware of the story of Sunny Valley/ Northolt, but I'd be interested to know about the others.

And "Baltic" before those two, when I knew him.

I had a lock at Atherstone ( lock 2)turned on me by a volocky as I was coming up the flight a couple of years back. When I remonstrated with him, he said it was so he could show a party of schoolchildren how a lock works. When I said to him that surely it would be better with a boat in the lock he didn't seem to understand.

As a single hander, I've had assistance from the top lock down to lock 5 on more than one occasion.

Thank you for all the helpful advice. My stay in Liverpool was excellent. The trip through the docks was spectacular, our mooring couldn't have been better, and Liverpool has a real buzz to it. Just strolling around, people watching and visiting the touristy sites put a permanent smile on my face. I don't think, in the previous posts, anyone mentioned Mathew St. That's a place no one should miss. We were there the weekend of the Euro final so perhaps the city was a bit livelier than normal. Queues waiting to get into bars at 5 o clock was quite common. Yes, Liverpool should be on everyone's "must visit" list. The only downside was the amount of weed we encountered getting there. From bridge 17 southwards the going was heavy and slow. The end result made it bearable however.