gary955

Can we have a mod steer this thread back to HVO? One of the most frustrating features of this forum is topic wander. Only about half of the replies to a thread about HVO are actually about HVO. It's a very busy forum if your interest is wandering off the subject, start a new thread! you'll still have plenty of input.

To bring the thread back on topic! Crown oil told me today that they will no longer deliver from a tanker to a boat. I wanted 1500lts of HVO and had an agreement from a marina for the delivery to be made at their fuel pontoon, directly from a tanker. If anyone knows of an alternative supplier, I'd be grateful.

Hello All. For good or ill, I'm a fan of the Morso Squirrel and want to install one with a back boiler in my tugboat. Morso's eye watering prices mean that I'm shopping second hand. I've had a couple of squirrel 1410's in my narrowboat over the years and find them easy to control and simple to keep in overnight. I've been offered a 1435 model which appears to be very similar, apart from a larger window glass and a different way of controlling the secondary air. What is the forums opinion of the differences between the 1410 and 1435?

Do you mean 10 milliseconds?

Good point. I'll bear that in mind

I tend to view all boaters as kindred spirits, so it's particularly galling to find that one has gone to the trouble of sneaking ashore on a private boat club mooring, and cutting or breaking the lock to a lamp post of my mountain bike and making off with it! The premises are well secured with high (locked) steel gates and a high perimeter fence backed up with thick hawthorn, so it clearly was a boater of some description. I'd quite like it back, although I realise it's a long shot. So if anyone spots a fairly scruffy white and black Cube Attention, with or without the distinctive wooden wine box rear carrier, on a boat. Please feel free to poke the boater sharply in the eye and recover my steed. Alternatively snap a picture of bike and boat and PM them to me with the location and I'll pop along to have a word. There's a drink in it for you. Stolen from the lower end of the Shroppie, so may have gone North, or South onto the Staffs and Worc's or BCN Cheers me dears.

The "pureheat" on the link you posted does look like my coal...however the "pureheat" in this photo from another merchant does not. I think many merchants just use any name without consistency across different parts of the country

I've been up in Wolverhapton over winter. I've been sourcing my coal from Mark at Coven Heath pump out, it's apparently called Warmfire and is supplied by N&R Fuels in Wolverhampton. I've never heard of it before, and a google search draws a blank. In my stove it burns hot and is long lasting, it leaves absolutely no clinker and produces minimal ash. The size of it is quite large and the nuts are clean with a soft matt look and with very little dust in the bags. I'm now down on the Thames and as I've nearly run out I'd like to get a few more bags to see me through the last of the cold weather. does anyone on the forum know of a supplier of it in the West London area or perhaps recommend something with similar properties? I've previously burnt Taybright, Stoveglow , Superblaize and Homebase Blaze. The Stoveglow is OK but the rest have been disappointing

Yeah I have one of those on my Narrow boat, its brilliant and cooks perfectly. Thanks for the link Alan but it must be full size domestic single oven to replace the existing one

We'd cook before 8 and only use the oven occasionally anyway so I don't really mind dragging the genny out for the odd occasion. We tend to use the oven for an hour only so fuel for the genny won't really be an issue....but yes, suggestions for a non rubbish built in 600mm gas oven would be most welcome as the best solution A frying pan or a lay in both seem like acceptable solutions for that one

We've recently refiitted our galley including a domestic gas oven (jetted for lpg) It's rubbish! It won't maintain a steady temp and there's a wide temp differential between the top and bottom. Despite nice blue flames there's also a bit of CO when in use (about 20ppm) and it requires 240v anyway to run it's case cooling fan as its built in I'd rather go electric, we're often in marinas with power available, and when not have a Kipor 2600 suitcase genny. Some cheap ovens have a 2kw element which I'm assuming would be ok for the genny but there are many replacement elements available for electric ovens some as low as 1700w. Anyone run a domestic oven off a suitcase genny with success?

Thanks all, I'm hoping to get a little further than Autherley junction on the first day but advice appreciated

I have to cruise from Hatherton Junction to John Sandersons yard in Stourbridge, starting new years day. I've checked the CaRT website for stoppages and all looks clear. My intended route is down the Staff and Worc and then up the Stourbridge canal. Do any members know of any problems or can anyone recommend (or warn against) any particular overnight stop? Cheers me-dears. Oh nearly forgot, I could do with a pump out en route!

Your pics look like a good recommendation. I'll call on Monday

Does anyone have any recommendations for a yard able to repaint the cabin sides and roof of a 55ft narrowboat? it's a trad with engine room and back cabin so some nice sign writing req'd as well. The boat is currently near Wolverhampton but I intend to move it south, so yards on route can be considered.