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I have the following for sale via eBay Plastimo Pilot life jacket. Auto inflate, Harness and Crotch straps. Two CO2 cylinders checked 04/24. Auto mech good until 06/24. Inflate check done 18/4. Dry stored from new. SP £6.66 Plastimo Pilot 150 N Life Jacket | eBay Plastimo Pilot life jacket...

Garmin GPS III Plus personal navigator. 12 parallel channel GPS receiver. Comes with mounting brackets, external puck antenna, cables to program and supply GPS signals. Has graining on screen see pictures but works perfectly. Works well as a GPS source for Midland Neptune VHF eBay start price £11.11

Midland Neptune 100 VHF DSC and ATIS both fully programmable via PC interface so you can add your own MMSI numbers. Comes programmed with channels M1 and M2 and both MMSI are blank. PC interface is RS232 with a usb to 232 converter and software. Banten VHF Antenna included. A complete...

I pootled the canals, rivers and almost made it to Hannington Bridge above Lechlade in Parglena. 60ft x 11ft6 ;) That picture is out on the River Roach.

One other thing to consider with larger engines is cooling. It is very difficult to fit big enough skin tanks to cool bigger engines the size of the tanks in sqft needs to be engine HP/4 so for 90hp that's 22.5sqft or two tanks roughly 6ftx2ft this means it is better to fit a Heat Exchanger...

Parglena is 60ft 35ton and has a 120hp Ford, which was ample. Personally I wouldn't go below 90hp as a decent amount of power gives you an edge especially if you want to go down to the Medway/ east coast. 50hp is not enough for a barge I had that in my 60ft narrow boat.

The lights on the fridge sre my main problem at night. A tea towel over it cures that. As for the blue light on the Victron a small square of black insulating tape does the trick unless like mine it's in a cupboard so I can't see it.

Thats the same thought I had

The most sensible option.

There is more water for more time in an East Coast estuary than is in my local estuary (Taw/Torridge). After 4 years I still haven't decided what to do about a boat, leaning towards a Drascombe so I can just potter round the estuary when there is some water.

Indeed it is Cost of keeping my ex boat, as of last week, on the water £3500 a year. Cost of keeping my caravan including storage when not in use £350 a year

There is a code on the underside of the victron that will allow you to reset the PIN so you get access. Well there is on mine Details of more chargers below. Bluetooth Smart - Resetting the PIN code If the PIN code is lost, it can be reset to 000000. The way you reset depends on which product...

On a 12v system fitting a 47ohm 10watt resistor in parallel with the ign light usually means you will never have to blip the throttle again to stop the alarm sounding when you first start the engine.

Used it on my covers for years, spray on walk away then a few days later its clean. However Never use it when covers are on the boat it contains chemical that are harmful to marine life. I always do my covers on the drive at home for this reason.

50hp Beta, under 2hrs and the calorifier is hot. Eberspacher heats it in about the same time. Its not a real boaty boat its a Narrowboat ;)