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I might be imagining it, but I think there used to be a service / repair illustrated guide here as a sticky post on one of the sub-fora. Can anyone point me to it please? Martin/

I've had this with an iffy connection in the power feed. The heater pulls about 20 A at startup so a poor connection will pull the voltage down. Never traced in unequivocally but wiggling and tightening everything sorted it.

Can't have that, the missus has veggie tendencies. It doesn't stop her drinking beer though.

Ta chaps or whatever you identify as. I'll find some of the high temperature mastic stuff. There's a tube somewhere in the garage.

I'm fitting a new rope seal to the door of my Boatman stove. Would one normally add some cement or high temperature mastic to hold it in place? Martin/

Yes, that has an effect and is probably comparable in magnitude to barometric changes and wind turbulence.

I've always been rather sceptical of the need to keep the tank full, as I suspect that the number of air changes in the ullage over the course of a year is fairly small. The driving force for exchange is the slow variation in external air pressure as weather fronts go past, and probably more importantly the rapid fluctuation in pressure due to wind. A few years ago I did a study on the exchange rate in a vented nuclear reactor containment. I can't remember the details but the annual number of volume exchanges was quite small. In a fuel tank, the smaller the ullage the less water vapour will be drawn in. As it doesn't hurt to keep the tank full I try do so, but don't get obsessive about it.

Why not take a relay out and measure the coil resistance.

I think I got some from B&Q, but it was a long time ago.

Horns, in my experience, need to be treated as disposable and need replacing every few years. Maybe the weather or the spiders inside.

Yes, probably ok. The girl child left her car on our driveway for a month with one of those gps black boxes fitted for her insurance. It was flat as Miss Norfolk when it came to start it. At that point we discovered that some scumbag had tried to screwdriver both locks so we couldn't get in. I now know how to break in to a Peugeot 107 with no signs of damage. The battery was fine after a charge.

Italian cars too. I was going to change the feeble battery on a girlfriend's Fiat, but gave up when it became apparent that the brake master cylinder would have to come off first.

You're asking sensible questions. Amongst those that you haven't asked: How to heat the boat? In order of expense, probably LPG > diesel > kerosene (needs a second tank) > solid fuel (coal / wood). Electric is probably a bit cheaper than diesel but not usable if you go cruising. Hot water? An electric immersion is probably the most economic and convenient if you're in a marina, usually fairly easy to arrange if it's not already in the calorifier. A 1 kW immersion left on for a few hours may be better than a larger, domestic sized one used for a short period. Ask away...

How do you know when you've passed an angler? You can't get the seat down. Bye!

A few m of 22 swg wire in a bucket of water? (Other gauges are available).

Read this first. https://passive-components.eu/capacitors-losses-esrimpdfq/

For that you need a sticker saying 'Machete on board and psycho crew'. It is also useful for creating a mooring where none existed before.

Machete, especially if you are on the Thames and adventurous.

Wire, 2 mm^2 in red and black, a comprehensive set of crimp connectors and a proper crimp tool.

When we pulled around 100 T of convoy through Ricqueval (first in a line of nine) our boat bumped the side lightly once in the entrance portal and then carried on in a straight line. Didn't touch the wheel at all. It took VNF five months to invoice us for the trip though and they made it hard to pay.

Our standard method for getting out of the marina. 200 m in reverse down a narrow channel with plastic boats on both sides. About 3 m of fairly heavy duty chain on a 5 m line.

She was Spanish.

We have a stainless one of those. We had a galvanised steel one which rotted in a year.