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AGMs, 5 years old and counting.

I start the engine then the missus puts the clothes in the w/m, turns the taps on and presses start. One of us then makes a cuppa and we sit down with some cake or biscuits and read/do a crossword/surf the net/have a kip. When the w/m has finished the boss empties the w/m and hangs clothes up to dry (note it is an AUTOMATIC w/m) Gibbo says we must be insane to heat water with batteries, could be but it ain't half relaxing. ETA: Before someone points it out, yes we are heating water with the alternator rather than batts, although when batts are new we have been known to do a wash with engine off, crazy!

Everyone has their own limitations, the agile and the less agile, but the only way to find that limitation is to exceed it, then in future you know how far you can go. The skill lies in judging when that limit is near and approaching that limit with caution and safety. Best done when you are young and can withstand the consequences when you are learning and getting it wrong. Some people choose never to take any sort of risk in their lives and so become less skilled in their judgement later in life.

Would they let me and the missus in? we're in our mid 60s but well preserved.

They did then when they were new, looking a bit scruffy now!

Having cc'd for 5 years we have never had to leave the boat for long so when we were forced to stop ccing and leave our boat on a mooring next to shorepower I topped up the batts for a few days and decided to take a chance and leave shore power disconnected and batts isolated when we left the boat. When we revisited a few months later batts were still at 98% SoC. (Batts are 5 yr old AGMs with less than 50% capacity left)

We have a couple of these, got someone to make them out of polypropylene to my design. Low enough to clear bridges but can be detached without too much bother, never needed to though (except to paint roof)

OP if your sink has 3 separate drains then I would bite the bullet and fit 3 separate akin fittings.

When our sink bottle trap kept blocking up and also water kept backing up from the washing machine I dedicated the w/m to the 3/4" (IIRCC) skin fitting and following a boater friend's setup fitted a new 1.5" SF for the sink, did away with the bottle trap which left the sink to empty straight through a 1.5" pipe. Works a treat, never blocks and always drains quickly with a nice flow of water out of the skin fitting. So my advice is dedicate a SF to the sink only and the same diameter as the sink outlet.

We have car wheels and tyres which keep our 22 " draught NB far out enough to prevent bottoming but there is still the occasional annoying bump as the canal level varies.

As SoC relies on an accurate battery capacity setting and calculating that ever decreasing capacity relies on doing a regular destructive full discharge then it really is an impossible task to have a reliable SoC reading from a solely shunt based monitor. It's like chasing around in ever decreasing circles. What's needed is some sort of monitor where the designer has done lots of exhaustive testing that enables it to make the best possible guess as to battery SoC. I wonder if such a thing exists....

If you was sticking 3.5 straight onto celotex which in turn is stuck to steel sides then yes it would make a solid job provided it was completely backed up by celotex with no hollows behind.

Same here, first I've heard of a fire brigade padlock, has it appeared since I retired in '02? We used to have all sorts of keys for various premises, used to be a right fiddle trying to find the right one at 3am on a winters morning. Maybe my memory is malfunctioning... nurse.

Retired full time liveaboards approx 100lts pm