Bobbybass

The reason I pointed this out....was that the OP hadn't mentioned the age of the boat....and the huge electricity demand may have brought the problem to light.

Be careful of that...Beta 43 and Travelpower arrangement. It's not a good one...destroyed my engine...and my neighbour had his Beta 43 destroyed after only 6 months. Beta paid for a new engine. Although they have made more recent modifications...its still not good running that big load off the main crank pulley. You need to regularly take hold of the main pulley and "waggle " it from side to side with some force. If you detect any movement...get advice quickly...as the pulley will quickly bite into the crankshaft and then its all over.

My Beta 43 had 15,000 hours when I sold the boat. Great compression...never used the glow plugs even on frozen mornings. No smoke...started on second turn. Oil/ filter changes every 250 hours with Wilko ( the late Wilko 😔 ) Classic motor oil.

Yup....they'll definitely need that.

The trouble is....that once one council gets away with it, others will rub their hands with glee and join in..bolstered by canal side dwellers. 😔 Look at ULEZ

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/23/ban-on-wood-burners-threatens-british-boat-dwellers-with-winter-freeze

You could always look out for something like this on ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194286851117?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=oeEY8pm9Tae&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IIvLDLg8S8K&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

To sum up my thoughts over the years. Boat jobs are like normal straightforward jobs in a house...but carried out in a matchbox. If you take a few shelves out of a wardrobe to fix a pipe...you will then fall over said shelves and bury the screwdriver you were about to use.

I had some bloke fitting out the boat next to mine. I came back after a week away and my boat was covered in sawdust and shavings. Not pleased !

I met a few making oodles of wine. They didn't even use bubblers...but plastic lemonade bottles with steriliser soaked cotton wool in the neck. I crewed with some well known boaters and they had made a still out of an old pressure cooker ( YouTube)... Worked well...I think....as far as I can remember 😃 😀 😄

Probably not. If they carry more than a bag of potatoes.... they'll be scraping the bottom,!

After applying Vactan you need to wire brush slightly. Vactan converts the rust and gives a coating for your top coat. It doesn't stick to paint and will flake off.

You mean....he was squatting down the bank as he has been for years....😳

I followed a wooden boat up to the Llangollen.... Over the years it's hull had swollen. It repeatedly got stuck in narrow locks...

There was a pub boat a year or so back. I saw it moored in Hungerford . Customers weren't allowed on board...they set up on the tow path.

It works.....trust me 👿👿👿😃😃

Sprinkle bread crumbs all over their roof....and allow the dawn chorus birds to do the rest...

I assume that your cooker is older than 3 years?. Thetford guarantee their cookers for three years. That's not "return to base". I had mine 2 years and on two occasions they sent an engineer...canal side....to mend it.

Ok.... reinvent the tiller 😃😃 Apart from having the two seats at the back with a control panel between them...it also had CCTV on that panel with cameras showing left right and straight ahead views. The owners also had a repeat of that joy stick steering at the front....as they had this strange idea that they would sit at a table on the front.... sipping gin and tonic....while cruising along. 🙃🙃🙃😃😃😃 They were wealthy people....a large private gin palace in the Med and their own aircraft. They seemed to think they could apply the private sea going yacht principles....to a canal boat 😃😃 Didn't the next owner of Whitfield strip out the joy stick and put a tiller back on ,?

I saw Whitfield at Crick ...when it was brand new and had been taken there for display by the builders. Boy ....did they have problems manoeuvring it onto the mooring even with bow and stern thrusters..I could have done it easily with no thrusters at all ! I went on board it. I seem to recall it had 6 large screen TV sets...one of which displayed relaxing videos. ( Not the Pammy Anderson type 😃😃) That must have been about 15 years ago and the builder confided in me that the build cost was £350,000 😳😳😳 Some months later....I saw the owners trying to tackle a winding section of canal near Napton....looking totally terrified with the silly little joy stick as it zig zagged horribly trying to collide with everything in its path. Later I found it careering towards me in the Braunston tunnel.... barely under control. A classic case....of trying to reinvent the wheel.

I installed a higher power water pump.....and suddenly I had water gushing from leaks all over the place....☹️

I've moored and walked that section. He empties his toilet down the bank....and makes the whole area awful. It is because if people like him that CART waste a fortune in legal fees.....that money coming from your license. Your fees...your license is paying for him. The cheapest and best thing is that he burns these boats out so they can be swept away.