dibley

Hi, Thanks to everyone for positing. I'm going to have to find an electrician to work out what my usage is as I really am rather dense when it comes to this kind of stuff. I'll look into a solar panel (any recommendations?). I know I need more battery's so I have that in hand, and I also have a geni but it is really loud and I am sure that I would upset someone if I had it on a couple of hours a day!! I do have a lot of electricl items on my boat i.e. household fridge (not 12v), TV, laptop, stero etc.... I also have an 1800wt convertor which is quite good and a mutli-fuel stove but that doesn't link up to anything electrical. In terms of what defines a tossier - em? Well, in my marina the tone is very much set by the warden who has a few favourties who tend to dicate what happens. I fell foul of this by asking about transparency and openess which did not go down too well. I would love to find another marina in the area or an end of garden mooring, but I can't find anything hence my considering moving on to the tow path. If I don't, I'll end up paying £3k a year in mooring fees and with no chance of moving as my copybook has been blotted shall we say.

My very post, so hello to you all. I am a liveaboard in a BW Marina (I don't want to say where). My boat is a smallish widebeam and because of this I am having to pay double the price of a nb (£3K+ pa). In contrast, many of the nb's in the marina take up wb spaces but they only pay once or one and a half. There is a huge amount of politics and favourtisim and if your face fits then your OK, but if not, then life becomes really difficult. I've tried to address this in an appropriate way but that only makes matters worse, so I now realise that its time to move on so I am currently exploring my options so to speak. At the current time I do have 240v hook-up, however if I transfer to a towpath then I have no idea how to run the electrics on my boat. I have 3 battery's , 1 started battery and a very small genie (700w). However, even with my limited knowledge I know that that isn't enough so can folk recommend how to improve my electric output especially to secure me through the winter months. P.S. If when you post back, please make it very simple - I won't feel offended honesty!