cuthound

It seems a reasonable request. Shareboats are typically very well maintained, repainted and blacked every year. The two shareboats I had shares in a still around. The 1992 one is now in private ownership and the 2002 one is still a shareboat. Neither were ever surveyed in the time I was a shareholder (1992-2013).

With one of those it would probably stop on a sixpence...

When I eat sandwiches whilst cruising, rather than stopping and mooring to eat, I call it "lunch on the prop".

You may need to comply with the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001 if the land you intend to put the tank on is not yours, i.e it is owned by a business such as a marina. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2954/contents/made

Blimey an 8 wheel drive Land Rover. You don't see many of them about...

I used a bowline on mine because even if the bank is always at the same height (unusual even on the same canal) the height between hand rail and water will vary because of the trim of the boat, and it is helpful sometimes to move the fenders to provide protection at a specific point.

Up until 1980, when BT adopted VRSLA batteries, they used to use large open 2 volt cells as shown in the attached photo. These cells had replaceable plates, which when they failed, were cut from the group bar and a new one lead welded in it's place.

For what it is worth, BT used vaseline to dress battery connections and they were (maybe still are) the biggest user of lead acid batteries in Europe.

To be fair, you being a continuous cruiser in every sense of the phrase, it does give you a very large back yard...

That's inflation for you!

As a first course of action with tiny leaks I always use Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure. https://captaintolley.com/ If it doesn't work, you have wasted about £10, if it does work it has saved you a lot of time, effort ad cost.

I had mine replaced after I has the bends in the tiller eased, to raise the tiller so that I didn't trap my hands when steering in the hatches with the doors closed. Whilst the boatyard did an excellent job of easing the tiller and keeping the tiller level, they left the brass extension on whilst easing the bends and the heat split the brass tube. Sadly they didn't quite drill the hole in the correct place so I now have a 1mm gap between the brass extension and the tiller bar. I filled the gap with a large "O" ring.

Only by using technology such as GPS. However this would be difficult for CRT to implement unless having an onboard device was made mandatory with a penalty of having your licence revoked if the device was interfered with or removed.

I wouldn't object to.CRT charging all boaters say £10.a night to moor on the towpath if they stayed longer than one night.

I filled my Webasto with a 50% mix of water and antifreeze but found the radiators wouldn't get hot until I drained it all out and refilled with a 25% antifreeze 75% water solution.

Hope you told them not to feed the boat as it would get too fat to pass through narrow locks... Many years ago I had a young lad who was fishing on the Leigh Branch fire maggots at my boat. I handed the tiller to Mrs Hound and leapt onto the bank with a windlass in my hand. The lad took off leaving his fishing gear behind. It was a pity that his rod fell into the cut when I accidentally tripped over it...

I would agree if the redacted pages changed the flavour of the report but it doesn't.

Unless of course the board determine the form of the report to be issued...

Later engines (from 1969 IIRC) were badged Mirlees Blackstone.