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Has anyone used this on a boat roof? Leyland floor paint Looking to cover our old Wickes garage floor paint which after 12 years is looking a bit tatty. Martin/

Try Bowmans e.g. https://www.ejbowman.co.uk/products/MarineHeatExchangers.htm

Ah, that's because we're not there. Will be back on Wednesday and will say hello!

We're tied up above Slat's Mill bridge. Say hello to Boden if you see her.

Beer / gin / tonic ARE food. Didn't you learn nothing at school?

With the 230 v fridge on our mainland boat, a bog standard domestic model, we discovered that if you load it with food before it's cooled down it never gets cold (other than in the ice box). Let it cool first then put food in and it's fine. Martin/

https://www.irishpost.com/news/shocking-canal-jump-fail-157744

Having gone from Oxford to Cropredy this week, the water levels were fine except for the pound above Duke's Lock where we were bumping bottom regularly. Martin/

Here's one I prepared earlier in 38 mm bore pipe:

The tank hadn't been used for some years and I like to think that the stuff in the bottom was dry rust. If I'd removed that thoroughly it wouldn't have been too bad for mess. I reckon that tank was about 85 kg and was in any case too big to go through the engine room hatch. It took about 6 m of linear cut to get it into manhandleable chunks to pass up to the missus. A combination of reciprocating saw and jigsaw did the business, both needed as only one or the other could access some areas. Took about 3 or 4 hours work. A lot of dust from the rust or whatever but not too bad for metal swarf or filings. If anyone wants my leesan tank it's 40 cm h x 60 x 90. Martin/

The one I cut up recently on our mainland boat was 3mm steel. Martin/ ps I've got a leesan polyethylene tank taken out of the uk boat looking for a good home

Reckon it is then. Rather disconcerting to see it in such quantity. Kids swimming in it, water skiers etc. Canal Roeselare - Leie, BE. Martin/

Is this stuff blue green algae or something else. I thought we'd sailed into a fluorescein spill. Had to clean a bright green scumline from the toilet flush.

I've got two of them, one for each boat. They are jolly good. They also work installed the wrong way round, which can make fewer adaptors necessary. Now in a competition with the missus as to who uses the least water when showering. She's winning with 2.4 L, but she is smaller than me. However, she did point out that she has two bottoms to wash. Martin/

How does the examiner know what sort of threads or olives are used without dismantling the joint?

Also worth checking that your prop is properly matched to engine and drive chain. I think that engine should be topping out at about 3000 rpm under load but the manual will tell you. About 10 - 15% less than no-load max. It made a lot of difference to my engine when I replaced the over-large prop. Martin/

Nope, the original question was someone else's. The "bearing" in mine appears to be a crude affair of rudder stock in a steel hole and there's no nipple. Rather like David Bowie as Newton the alien in"The Man Who Fell to Earth".

I have completely failed to get mine off, despite using big hammers and a three-legged puller. The only plus side is that I'm now fairly sure there's no bearing underneath to replace, and I can get grease in from a grease gun.

You could put a small recirc pump on the domestic side, arranged to be on when the engine is running (or under manual control maybe better so you can get HW from a short engine run).

8 Bloke with bad aim in the toilet

Here's a bit of toilet discharge pipe I took off our mainland boat recently. I guess it had been in use for at least twenty years. The pipe wall thickness is ~ 4 mm, the scale 6 - 8 mm. Some of it had spalled and caused a blockage near where it goes through the seacock.

There's a few feasible places above the Thame entrance (on the Thames) next to a highish wall. The bank is sometimes overgrown but if it's been cleared it's a good spot.

From memory there's about 200 m above the lock cut on the left bank with adequate water depth which used to be free and a lovely spot. I'd heard that the land was purchased by a nasty bit of work from UKIP who had put up no mooring signs. Further up looked ok to moor but was on the wrong side of the barbed wire to access Dorchester. That was a couple of years ago.

Our ex-oil tanker is about 90 years old and still floating. She usually has a bit of welding when dry docked. It's routine when they get to a certain age. Of more interest should be whether she has been maintained regularly below the water line. Martin/

Missed it, but I was at next week's.