David Mack

Exactly. Fit an L port valve on the cold feed to your hot water system, with one output directed to the calorifier inlet connection and the other output directed to the instantaneous gas water heater. Then connect the calorifier output (after the thermostatic valve) to the instantaneous heater output and to the feed to the hot taps. You can then use the L port valve to select which hot water source is directed to the taps and shower - calorifier if it is full of hot water after a day's engine running, instantaneous heater otherwise.

I don't see a swing bridge! Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!

That's the crucial bit. My guess is CRT will allow boat movements which don't involve use of locks, and they may try and keep the levels up for as long as they can, but with no guarantee that even local boating will continue to be possible. It will be a decision for individual marinas whether to shut the entrances. But if they do, they still have the issue of how they maintain marina water level with water loss to evaporation.

We've just scraped our way along the Rowington pound from Hatton to Lapworth in a boat drawing 3ft. The pound is about 9" off. Some lengths were fine, some were just slow going dragging through the mud, a few isolated bits of rock and roll, and in a few bridgeholes we ground to an almost complete standstill. But we made it onto the North Stratford.

The club would be a Third Party under the owners insurance, so should be able to claim costs reasonably incurred in removing the wreck.

Mabel and Forget me Not today.

Two boats going up passing a hotel boat pair coming down in one of the shortest pounds at Hatton.

The examples quoted cover the costs incurred by a navigation authority or similar in the removal (and possible scrapping) of your boat if it is causing an obstruction or environmental damage. That it not necessarily the same as the costs you would incur hiring a contractor to refloat your boat and clean and repair it to bring it back into use.

Since both batteries should have their negative connections grounded to the hull, they will necessarily share a common ground, whatever their chemistry.

Tame Valley Canal over the M5. Dudley Port Aqueduct on the New Main Line rebuilt for larger road beneath. One on the GU in Milton Keynes ( whose name escapes me) The 1980ish Stanley Ferry Aqueduct.

The interior cabin and hull sides have recently been tarted up, but the ceiling clearly has problems. The well deck and engine bay look very scruffy by comparison. And signs of damp on the cabin side here behind the TV bracket. "Freshly blacked in 2021" actually means "in need of reblacking". But it is a very cheap boat, albeit almost 50 years old. If the hull is in good condition it may be worth going for. If its in need of overplating, then maybe not.

I'm sure burying small quantities of one human's waste is pretty harmless to the environment. But my experience of boating in the 60s is that my father would dig a hole to bury several days worth of the whole family's waste, along with a quantity of the formaldehyde-based toilet blue fluid. Not sure that was so harmless!

Yup. Its required to stop a child sleeping on the side bed from being corrupted by what Mum and Dad might be doing on the cross bed!