Jess--

He's got us boxed in on 3 sides here and owns the only access road

CCTV tends to fall into one of three categories 1. Observation : lowest quality / widest viewing angle, you can see what is happening but will not be able to see who is doing it (a human takes up 5% or less of the picture) - example a camera overlooking a supermarket car park 2. Recognition : You will be able to recognise people you know or that have distinctive features or follow a person from camera to camera, (a human will take up 5-15% of the picture - example a camera overlooking an aisle inside a supermarket 3. Identification : a person in the picture can be easily identified when compared to a photograph, the face is clear and usually facing the camera - example the camera on the doors to a supermarket

Not sure about the CRT moorings but the other moorings (motor yacht club / sailing club or boston gateway marina) are not floating pontoons and it's pretty common to see boats go under over winter with high river levels.

Heated grips are a wonderful thing on a bike, and did think about adding a heating pad to the seat but I tend to find that the one bit that stays warm is my backside.

Do the current rules (about having to pedal) cover older electric bikes or are they grandfathered? I wonder as I have an older one (probably around 20 years old) which has the electric drive as a totally independent system and got me up to around 40 (probably less now as I have gained some weight), you only make the mistake of snapping open the throttle from a standing start once as you end up sitting in the road wondering where the bike has gone.

Only jumped through quickly so may have missed it.... But if it hasn't already been said connect the battery to the controller before connecting the solar panel some controllers have issues if the panel is connected first (wrong voltage selection or releasing the magic smoke)

we used to have one of the moonraker black box aerials which used to sit about an inch above the cratch in normal use, we did used to have a pole it could be switched to for some extra height (clothesline prop was ideal), Generally it worked well apart from in poor signal areas. A friend had a log periodic on their boat and one evening we tried switching aerials, where his tv could find 4 channels using his log periodic it found 12 with the moonraker in the same spot, where ours found 2 channels with the moonraker (rubbish tuner in the tv) it found nothing with the log periodic.

For getting perspex & similar sheets cut ask around to find someone locally who has a laser cutter, most of the commercial ones can cut it with a cleaner / more accurate cut than you ever could by hand (and a hell of a lot quicker).

Surely that should be no fixed address? No fixed abode would be where you could be on any boat / car / house / shop doorway etc and this will change from day to day No fixed address would be where you will be on a boat called xxxx (registration yyyy) or in a motorhome (registration zzzz) etc but the location of the boat etc may change from day to day (i.e. what you will be in is identified but where it will be is not)

we always found that consistently between 80-85 hours our lpws4 would start to hunt slightly at our usual cruising speed (slightly faster or slower was rock solid), we always took it as a sign that we needed to change the oil in 2 days time (presumably it was because we had wear on the rack at the most used position). With practice we got the oil change down to around 30 mins.

Common around here a couple of years back to have large barns rented out only to have the filled (and I really do mean filled completely) with tyres. Of course once it's discovered the people renting the barn have vanished and the owner has to pay to dispose of the tyres (at around £130 per ton / £1 per tyre)

I'm guessing that from the Rent rather than Hire in the title the OP means rented out via airbnb etc where it's treated as holiday cottage that floats.

Most of the go-pro cameras have a wi-fi link (not bluetooth) which should work over a fair distance (we never had any issues at 45 feet) using their app you should be able to get a live image on an ipad or similar android tablet (and be able to record with a single tap). Ours wasn't used to see what was ahead, more used to record nice views or unusual things happening.

I suspect that the 25 boats that have been moved on with no license / Insurance (and presumably no license or at least an invalidated one) would also come under the umbrella of being poor / non payers of mooring fees. I suspect that with covid there are probably a fair few boats sat in marinas that currently have a deceased owner because all of the paperwork relating to the boat is on the boat and relatives may know that John "had" a boat somewhere but no idea of where.

My go anywhere / do anything laptop is a 16 year old dell, it was bought new from Tesco's of all places and came with vista installed vista was upgraded to windows XP and has since been upgraded through 7 & 10 Apart from 1 replacement battery everything is original and it's in daily use (currently running a co2 laser cutter) but recent excursions include tuning a supercharged v8 jaguar engine in a custom 4wd vehicle... from the passenger seat while doing stupid speeds & angles in a quarry.

No grid power, no drinkable water, Heating via wood burner, cooking via bottle fed lpg cooker and access only via water or towpath... All of the issues that come from boat living without the option of starting your engine and moving somewhere new. The list glosses over waste by saying it's via a septic tank, I would imagine that would be problematic to get emptied (and would probably need upgrading / replacing to comply with the new regs that kicked in from 2020 and take effect on change of ownership) I remember talking with the residents around 6 years ago and they seemed new to the property at the time, they were using a small open fibreglass boat for transport (including school run) and were experimenting with an unofficial turbine dropped in the bywash for extra power

With the mention of willow wren above here's a photo from 74(ish) of a couple of their boats having fun turning in Coventry basin (I don't know if the windows survived)

I would imagine that if his boat were on a residential mooring and he had failed to pay his mooring fees the boat would have been removed quite swiftly (3-6 months) although probably only onto another section of canal outside of the residential moorings where he would then have to comply (or not) with the CC rules. There are probably a lot more legal options for kicking a boat (with or without occupant) out of a mooring space than the blunt tool of section 8 that CRT have to use to remove a boat from the canal totally

Could it be the water circulation pump? (assuming water heater)

Best price I could find was £1.22 including postage from China* (although that was for 20 triacs) My current big ticket fixed items for cheap parts are a £4500 laser cutter that needed a £0.12 schmitt trigger chip (smd of course) and a £8000 (estimated value) car that needed a small coil of wire, a magnet and a FET (AKA a crank position sensor) £23.17 cost. * knowing the Chinese supplier it's 50:50 as to whether the item is actually in China or a UK warehouse.

Rather than messing with wireless cameras, phones & apps etc why not just use a car reversing camera kit They are already 12v (and designed for automotive use so 14v while charging should be fine) something like https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134331578228

Some things just don't need encrypting and with newer browsers throwing a fit it just makes things difficult. one example I ran into recently was a remote temperature sensor, you go to the site and it shows the current temperature and a graph for the previous 24 hours, no login forms / no scripts / nothing but raw html (not even an image file) now with browsers refusing to connect I either have to work out how the hell to set up https on an arduino within the 5k of memory that is unused or scrap a few dozen sensors and replace them with something a lot more expensive & power hungry