Onewheeler

You're right. I was going to check which device I used, but my RS account has been disabled for too many failed logins 😡 and I can't find the board I made as it's been tidied up by one of the Ukrainian ladies who were staying with us for a year 😢Loved them but still looking for stuff that they've hidden! The house has never been as clean since they left.

I experimented a while ago with a pressure sensor interfaced to an Arduino, but had a lot of problems getting it to give a stable and repeatable reading. Rather than waste more effort I continued with the time honoured transparent sight tube. It's not as transparent as it was, but it's easy to shine a torch behind it. The volume passed counter also works well if the battery is replaced every few years.

I've had a couple of welded stub pipes fail on mine. In both cases I cut them out, enlarged the hole to good metal and replaced with brass skin fittings.

I've done it from Bristol in a narrowboat. Couldn't get a pilot so we followed another boat with one. The exciting bit was when the other boat stopped under the new bridge. Called him on the radio, he was taking the alternator off as the engine was overheating. The other exciting bit was singlehanding down the Avon to portishead. Couldn't see portishead due to mist. Grateful for the GPS and relieved when the pier came into view. Also done the trip to lydney. Easy but the timing is very important. Leave Sharpness half an hour before high water, let the tide take you upstream, when you get to the far bank you'll be taken back downstream and a nifty turn into the harbour. You'll have booked the EA to open the gates ready for you. We did it for the harbour festival, there was a brass band on the quay playing for those in peril on the sea 😂

In that boat you should be able to get down the tidal Severn to portishead given good weather and tides, then up the Bristol Avon to Bristol. Also across from Sharpness to lydney harbour but I'm not sure of the status of the latter at the moment. It's a good trip!

I think there might still be a bottle of ferric chloride in the garage if anyone wants it. Must be 20 years old.

The first mate insisted on a new fridge when the gas fridge on the French boat couldn't cope, long before the temperature got to 40C. The new, cheap mains fridge works perfectly with anything the French sun can radiate and it still uses minimal power. Happy wife with ice for her gin.

Difficult to use mixed fuel as wood should be burnt on a bed of ash and coal products on a raised grate. I'm sure there are people who mix though. Wood is bulky.

+1 for the Boatman. Not sure how it would do burning wood, you ought to take the grate out. Eddy who makes them is notorious for not responding to emails. He's a very nice bloke though. Stainless flue recommended. I had an enameled flue which my finger went through rather quickly. Not much more expensive to buy.

One of ours decayed beyond recall so I took it off and replaced it with a plastic pudding basin attached with sealant. After nine years the basin was showing signs of UV degradation so I replaced it with another basin. We've got two more in the set so sould be good for another 25 years. I won't care by then.

That's the one we've bought. Not much used yet as we've been in Spain for a month, but first impressions are good. We bought ours from midland chandlers, looked more expensive at first sight but when you factored in the delivery cost it was competitive. Our fitter and bss examiner rated it well too.

Highest ever was 2014, not long after we'd taken up our mooring there. It was pretty deep this spring, just about thigh wader depth. I think the works on the sluice above Osney lock have improved things. The level above the lock barely moves, the water barely goes over the bank.

Nope. Where I moor below Osney the water has been known to rise to over bollock depth at our landing stage requiring chest waders. The range is around 1.7 m.

I prefer this one but it's probably the same dataset. Never seen it be out of synch. Essential when levels are rising to find out if it's wellies or waders to get to the boat. https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/7057/downstream?v=map-live&lyr=mv,ri,ti,gr,rf&fid=stations.7057&ext=-1.450978,51.455872,-1.033436,51.948914

Thanks Nick. Now I've looked at the GHT website I remember that.