mrsmelly

Lol, you tight sod, just buy a lithium battery using your extensive spare dosh!!

I will ask him, if he buys the boat.

He will keep it IF its a proper install?? Otherwise tried and tested for decades never let him down lead acid will go in. To be honest depending on boat use lithium is an expensive toy. His boat useage is plugged in to mains at mooring 24/7 so any battery works well and when out he cruises a few hours a day on jaunts that charges the lead acid anyway. Lithium is of course good for cmers for instance who dont have mains and dont move and a weight saving for many applications but for boats isnt a real problem.

There are other small problems with the boat including a lithium battery but that's easily removed and sorted. The other bits such as fitting a washing machine are not much of a problem. He's going for a look at it. Trying to find a max 41 foot boat that's as big up to that size as possible is far from easy. He doesn't want a project and would have bought a new beetle but there is a waiting list. An air fryers will suffice as he has mains at the mooring but it's nice to have genuine feedback on the stove.

Indeed there was but I remember it being scrapped which is weird really.

Its not the price as its quite expensive, he has plenty of cash. Its the size at only forty feet. He has a forty foot mooring and tiny boats like that are few and far between as he doesnt want shorter if possible. You and I both know that long boats are better value for money but he doesnt have that option.

Try @matty40s he used to do it but I am not sure if he still does.

I think he has or did have a Dickinson?? but thanks for your input

Hi Peeps. Years ago I had a boat I fitted mistakenly with a piece of crap diesel stove made by Dickinson, it was bloody awful. Fast forward to today. A good friend has seen a boat on brokerage that at first sight seems to have one major drawback, its gas free, never a good sign and has the Kuranda stove fitted. Now does any of you actualy have one of these very expensive stoves and can give any honest feedback as to suitability for liveaboard use please. Such as genuine useability, time to heat up and regulate etc etc. Problem is of course first owner wrongly specified gas free so removing said stove is not so easy as just banging a proper gas stove in but all boats are a compromise somewhere and is the stove a definate no no?? Taa in advance. Genuine advice would be very much appreciated but the usual humour and wind up is also completely acceptable

Iirc the navy ones were built by John Pinder.

There was a pub directly opposite that I don't recall the name of, I wonder if that survives also? And one 100 yards down the road. The area was called The Pole iirc? We were typing together lol. I did remember the name the Pole then lol. It was 91 and 92 we did it, a proper pub then with absolutely no food available and packed each evening and absolutely rammed at weekends.

The Anglers arms, do you know it? Google tells me it's still there.

Manchester as any fool knows is a dump. The missus and I used to run a pub in Failsworth on holiday relief a few years ago, we wore crash helmets behind the bar 😉 running a pub in such places is not for the faint hearted lol.