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Yes, but other folk have asked if they could. Anyway, your question was answered in the first couple of replies.

Unfortunately he still thinks it isn’t.

Yes we are. Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour?

What license terms & conditions? We’re discussing your contractual obligations to the Marina.

Whatever are you talking about now? We've been discussing your contractual obligations with the marina - that has nothing to do with CRT. Of course it serves a purpose. You cannot have a mooring without one.

Unfortunately for your argument, the two cannot be separated. How many more times? It's a contractual requirement.

In the circumstances described by you, yes, that's all it is. The marina contract states that you must have a license, therefore without one you cannot have a mooring in that marina. It's really very simple.

Neither. You are buying a license in order to comply with your contractual obligations with the marina. By happy coincidence that license will also permit you to use CRT's waters. Of course, you're under no obligation to do so but you can if you wish.

But it does. Because if you breach those terms (by not having a license) then you won't have a mooring. There's no law that states I have to pay the farmer the rent for my business premises but if I didn't then I wouldn't have any business premises. It's a very simple contract, just like the one you have with the marina.

... form a contract between you and them.

Contract Law. He’s already said so.

Is this a piece of your brain?

Sounds like good advice.

Agreed. Hence my suggestion that OP seeks first hand advice.

Who knows? I think you need to employ the services of someone who understands boat electrics to at the very least advise, and possibly to do a little rewiring if required.

I don’t believe that is correct. If CaRT drained the canal I think you’d find all the boats in the marina sitting on the mud.

Not waterproof, so it can't sit outside and it's metal, so the case must be earthed - a big problem in itself.

The fuse is to protect the wiring and it is a dead cert that the inverter's fuse will be way too big to protect the cable coming from the MPPT, so that will require its own fuse. You can connect the MPPT cables directly to the batteries (via that fuse, but keep it outside of the battery box), or to the battery side of the isolation switch, or if it's more convenient, to the DC connections on the Combi. Electrically they're all the same, and any of them will comply with the BSS. Certainly not a 'requirement', and they make the alternator work a lot harder than it's probably designed to do. Nevertheless it's an option. What alternator do you have?

Yes. I think you missed... So it's a Combi.

That would be your best bet rather than resurrecting a 2 year old one

Fixed that for you

As long as it stays stuck. I've yet to see a spider prying it up...

Oh, if only anything in the BSS were so cut and dried... Certainly, welding it would be perfect. Putting a nut and bolt through it along with sealant would be satisfactory according to Rob at the BSS, but some examiners will argue the point. If it's above the height of the gas bottles and any other connections then it doesn't matter anyway, but again, some inspectors might argue the point. I see no reason why it shouldn't pass. It is effectively a gas-free boat. It would still be a good idea to find something to plug that pipe, even if it's a wedge of wood, simply to prevent any spiders from setting up camp.

That looks like a through-bulkhead fitting sitting waiting for the gas locker piping to be installed to it. It doesn’t appear to be capped, no. Is that a hole, top right? If so it’ll need attending to when you do plumb in the gas.

But the absorption phase will still take several hours. At 90% SoC 700Ah of batteries will only take around 70A, whatever boxes of tricks you might have. Then at 91% 63A, at 92% 56A etc.