Scooby

We are liveaboards and currently have a battery eating 12v powered fridge/freezer, our current one is a waeco 80 litre about 4 years old, always seams to come on all the time, can anyone recommend other options ie gas fridge.

If they halved the price i wouldnt want it. No parking and its not a nice place to live.

Goodgurl's estimates look realistic to me. Sounds a lot of coal though that would make over 80 bags of coal. We use about half that with free wood when available. Diesel would be biggest cost, try 1.5 litres per hour for most boats at 5 hours per day would roughly be 1.5x5=7.5 so roughly £7x 365.

So whats your verdict, was it money well spent or not?

Keep a house and rent it out, money in the bank atm is terrible. This is what we did, sold all our furniture including electrical items like fridge etc that way when renting you dont have to fix the fridge if it breaks, and no storage fees, no need to change your postal address just have your mail redirected by the post office £60 a year to a relatives, we have 2 cars and a motorhome and all addressed to our rented house and we live 200 miles away. We have a local plumber we use so anything the house needs ie gas certificate or burst pipe the tenant lets us know and i send him round. So far we have paid out about £400 in maintenance ie boiling service, gas cert and 2 water leaks, about £900 in insurance(buildings insurance). I havent visited the property since we left which was 3 years ago, collected 36 payments of £650 a month = £23400 less costs of £1300 = £22100 so far. Property has dropped in value but one day i might want to move back to dry land. £30,000 of premium bonds = whatever you win. £30,000 in the bank = approx £900 interest per year + it will increase every year. if your not winning over £900 a year its better off in the bank.

Plenty more of overstayers at uxbridge.

I have 2x100 w panels and on a decent sunny day they putting in almost 10 amps, and they dont keep you up allnight.

I have a rutland 913, its been laid on the roof for nearly a year, dont like the noise it makes down the boat, much happier with the solar.

Aint no cube just a dongle in the window. Back at mooring now.

I have been with 3 for 2 years now, i did have dongle with aerial socket and have aeriel on the roof from the dongle, it did work ok but since upgrading my contract with 3 they have sent me a new dongle the white one E353, its far better than the previous one i had from them, i now get a signal in places that i didnt used to, i have tried the E367, and the E122, all with aeriel sockets, my newest has great speeds, This test is from a place in middle of nowhere, i usually get double this. http://www.speedtest.net/result/1797536967.png

I am from that area, try the navigation pub instead, nicely still in the country, good moorings and main road straight into wakefield, (about 1-2 miles out). Otherwise fall ings lock is good spot. you can moor near the flats or on the river by the flats we have done both, never had any trouble...

I have a toshiba, and liveaboard, best thing to do if your like me and always on the laptop is buy a double size battery, mine lasts 7 hours and the standard about 2-3 hours so thats almost 10 hours of use without being plugged in, me and the wife bought the same laptop too so i use her battery as well if needed, and the bonus of that is if your running the engine you can charge the spare at the same time...just get your make and model on lappy and battery and get on ebay, cost me about £80-100 but well worth it in the end.

Your thoughts are exactly the same as ours, we want more space but would prefer to be able to do the whole system at the same time, as you say about scotland we want to do the system and are considering taking boat out of the water to be able to do scotland too, then one day when we decide we done it all we will swap for a widebeam...till then its narrowbeam for us...i dont fancy hiring but maybe would just to sample scotland before taking the plunge to take the boat out there. One day i want a dutch style widebeam.

Before you go check weather forecast, if its below freezing, either leave some heater on or drain tank and switch pump off, simples........we are leaving ours for 5 days, plan is if weather is going to drop over that period is to set central heating to come on a few times over that time to save us draining the tank..

haha, never use garage coal....i made that mistake.....like the olden times when the coal man used to fill your bunker lol, just throw it away and buy proper stuff..thats why you got black stuff in the boat...

Lol doorman, look what you started now....priceless!!!!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Yanmar-Oil-Filter-119305-35150-Excavator-Marine-/230563143050?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_BoatEquipment_Accessories_SM&hash=item35aea25d8a used this guy many times for everything like oil, fuel, air filters..genuine parts..

I have a shakespeare electric outboard for my 8ft rowing boat, cost me £80 from ebay, does the job, if its for light use in calm conditions it will do the job, no noise at all and has a reverse on it too.