Jess--

Warped sense of humour here.... but it amuses me that the boat at a glance appears to be named warmglow (I know it's really warsglow) reminds me of another burnt out shell which was on the bank at Starline with the name of phoenix.

they (the family) looked into it but were advised that there would be little chance of success as the car was on the public highway with the engine running and he was the sole occupant for quite a period of time which meant there was no avoiding that he was in charge of the motor vehicle (the running engine was the killer)

the old trick used to be that you put the ignition (not door) key under one of the wheels. I know of one lad that ended up with 9 points on his provisional license (no insurance / no qualified person in the vehicle + something else related) for sitting in his parents car while they were shopping, they had left the keys in the ignition and the engine running (for the heater), Put his driving back by years as his insurance jumped to 5 figures (which was 2 figures more than his car cost), it's the only time I have seen an insurance quote of over £10,000 (3rd party fire & theft) for a mini metro that was worth around £300

Have a look at what the signal levels are like with Three in your area, they offer a contract that is unlimited* everything (minutes / texts / data) for around the £20 mark, their phone sims are also no longer prevented from working in dongles / mifi units. * we all know that unlimited deals on anything really have limits, previously Three used to start looking at your usage when you went over 1000 Gb in a month. With regard to landlines we have previously had a landline installed to a wooden shed on the beach, BT will install almost anywhere but you will pay through the nose for everything (initial survey / installation / line rental), ask about non served premises, in our case it worked out at around £70 per month for line & broadband but we were probably an outlier.

for a pair of 150w panels you are getting pretty much what I would expect at this time of year. the 140w panel we had would produce 0.1A - 0.2A at 14V over winter, in summer we would expect our 140w panel to be producing around 9A (although it rarely got to this because the batteries were almost always close to fully charged) with your 300w of solar I would expect somewhere around 20A in the summer (assuming your batteries are in a state where they will accept that rate of charge)

Years ago my mother was into CB radio and as a result we had a 30 foot tall pole next to my bedroom window with an (at the time) expensive aerial on top. One night I heard some strange noises from outside (around 2 am) and looked out to find someone had climbed the pole and was trying to steal the aerial, they saw me and slid back down the pole, jumped the garden wall and vanished. The next day the pole was lowered and a foot of carpet tacks pushed through tape was added just below the aerial (bright yellow tape on a black pole) and the pole re-erected. 3 nights later I was awoken by a loud yell of F******k from outside my window followed by a distinct thud from the back garden.

there may be an issue with the title on this land as hinted from the description (my bold)... interesting that the title plan isn't included in the listing

We bought our 45 footer (23/4 year old stenson hull) in 2015 and sold it again in 2019 (as a 28/9 year old) for around 23% more than we paid for it, we probably could have pushed a bit more and got around 30% more but to be honest it was time for the boat to go as we simply weren't getting the use out of it. Overall once mooring, licenses, fuel, blacking, maintenance and all other costs were worked out and weighed against the profit of the sale the 4 years of ownership cost around £6000

as a quick & dirty test just double up the cables (2 x positive & 2 x negative) if your heater works fine then you know you need heavier cable, if it still doesn't run you need to get a multimeter on the heater plug

low voltage (due to low battery or volt drop) can give many different errors (not just E-01). if you have any sort of current monitoring see what the heater is pulling before it errors out, if it's over 5A your heater is probably ok. I have one of these heaters running in a workshop to fend off the massive amounts of condensation we get in there, up until yesterday it was running from a 25A ham radio psu which is a risk because if power fails while the heater is running it can damage its control board (no fan to cool it all down), we switched over to a battery and smart(ish) charger. last night the heater stopped running (after 3 weeks of almost continuous running) and gave just about every error going, it turns out that while our charger is smart I am not, I had not turned the charger on so the battery had died. My usage is quite a good test of the reliability of the heater as I have added an extra control module which shuts the heater down completely if the temp get's too warm in the room and restarts it when the temperature drops, normally they just go to low heat output but never shut down so my extra bit means that the heater is seeing far more starts & stops than it would in normal use (meaning it uses quite a bit more battery power and a lot more uses of the glowplug) but it does keep the room temperature between 19 & 21 degrees if at all possible.

Hell No! 8 people got added to my list of people never to work with again. I did however actively bid against them when contracts came up for renewal since I had been doing the work for several years. ended up taking around 40% of their customers between myself and a couple of their other former contractors. They didn't allow for all the former contracts becoming void when they folded the company and switched to the new one.... especially the clauses preventing their former contractors from approaching or working with their clients directly.

not the case with liverpool boats / collingwood but a common trick with companies is to swap the name to a new ltd company and let the old one crash & burn it was done to me and ended up losing around 30k as a result. companyname ltd had been trading for around 10 years and I had been working with them for around 5, generally at any point I had between 20k and 40k worth of invoices owed by them (always paid within 28 days of completion of the work) A couple of times invoices had been a few days late in being paid (put down to delays in their client paying them), not seriously late and only ever 1 or 2 invoices out of 20+ Then all invoices stopped being paid. In the background the following happened A new ltd company was created companyname services ltd with new directors companyname services ltd purchased all of the assets of companyname ltd at a fair price but not sufficient to pay all of companyname ltd's debts companyname ltd changed its name to othercompanyname ltd and went bust companyname services ltd changed its name to companyname ltd According to documents this whole process was carried out in under 10 minutes anyone owed money by the original companyname ltd lost around 98% of what they were owed (we got back just under £600) the directors of the new company were high level employees of the old company the directors of the old company became high level employees of the new company

when you start with engine (beta 38), gearbox (prm), inverter (3kw pure sine), charger, webasto or eberspacher, fridge, cooker etc at the top of the list of materials and include a repaint (from a reputable firm) the bill adds up fast. the boat we were looking at was either 58ft or 65ft and had been totally underwater (roof submerged) for over a month so absolutely everything inside would have needed replacement.

I wouldn't touch this in any way. a couple of years back there were a load of ex-hire boats up for grabs (I cant remember the company but they used shakespeare characters as boat names) one of those was up for auction with a starting bid of £1000 having been sunk and recovered the cause of the sinking was known (weed hatch removed and full power in reverse / deliberate sinking) the interior was a total write-off and the engine was presumed to also be scrap metal. with everything costed out (new engine, new interior & repaint outside) we ended up with a materials cost of around 26k-28k (+ the cost of buying the boat & removal costs) to get the boat back in shape this was going into it knowing that it was a modern hull with no issues (apart from needing a new weed hatch) If we had gone ahead the boat would have been worth maybe 30k - 35k (a known sunk boat will always have it's value knocked regardless of why it sank or how much was re-done) we decided against the project because no matter how we looked at it we ended up with a boat that was going to be worth less then the cost of getting it in good order again. On the day of the auction we think a few bidders went in with rose tinted glasses because the boat ended up selling for over 15k, meaning that whoever bought it will have ended up spending somewhere in the region of 45k overall for a boat that was worth maybe 33k

if you can use the new drive as an external drive (like in the caddy linked) you can use a bit of software called "SelfImage" (https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/selfimage.html) which can clone your original hard drive to the new drive. (will need to be run as administrator) be warned cloning the drive may take several hours (my record for a failing drive being cloned was 26 hours for a 1tb drive) then swap the new drive into the place of the old one and carry on with no losses or changes. (just make sure the new drive is the same size or bigger than your original) I use the software on a weekly basis to keep cloned copies of several servers hard drives, then if a real drive fails I can bring it back from a clone within a couple of hours (or minutes if I run it as a virtual machine... but that's a whole other can of worms)

Up until June of this year we moored at Brinklow (4 years total), from what we could find out Adrian was very rarely present and very much hands off with the marina, it wasn't unusual to pay by cheque in march and not have the cheque paid in until December, in general up until a few months before leaving there were no issues as the harbourmaster (Eric if memory serves) was present most of the time and when he wasn't the mobile phone was passed to someone else there. In general the marina was basic but well maintained with pontoons cleaned every couple of months (with care taken not to move the muck onto the moored boats). The last time we were there the marina was noticably emptier of boats (not unusual for mid summer, but there were no cars parked to account for the missing boats) our neighbours told us that the harbourmaster had left following a falling out with the owner and a lot of long standing moorers had left with him. We also noted that was a broken pontoon and were told that a new boat owner had misjudged speed & wind a few weeks earlier and very neatly knocked a section out roughly 20 feet from the end, given the length of the pontoons there this still left that pontoon usable even by full length boats. The phone No we used to contact them on was 07956 140642 Edited to add... You may want to contact other local canal based business to see if they have any up to date contact details businesses that spring to mind (in order of likelihood)... Armada boat hire Rose Narrowboats Lime Farm marina

I still have 2 servers that are running windows 2000, they do their job and aren't exposed to the internet so unless somebody plugs a supported usb stick in (not many supported by 2000) they are pretty safe

on the waterline would be the most likely position too