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I use to have this problem. I then connected the pump up to the stereo. Everytime the pump now comes on the stereo plays " the sound of silence" by Simon and Garfunkel. Problem solved. However, if ever the pump leaks it plays " bridge over troubled water"

Works with concrete too. I tried it once and it didn't even make a dent in the concrete.

I like to hear mine, that way I know if it runs when it shouldnt

Make sure the mounting screw are not too tight.

Perhaps it is so they can clock your arrival and give out a fine if you are 30 seconds over your 24 hours; bit like parking meters in London, the instant the meter flicks onto red a traffic warden climes out of his hiding place in the nearest drain and slaps you with a fine.

Cracking, ,I'm passing through tamworth in a few hours. Looks like you are on the Birmingham Fazeley stretch though.

Nigel Carton on here has a boat near Burton not too far away,,I know he's busy though.

Not a troll I think but someone with huge compassion and dedication to liberty not matched by an understanding of the basic facts of legal process,like the role of judges. Nor indeed the numbers poised to "adopt" their own length of towpath if the courts ever enabled it. As an a side, I don't know if it's the same guy but there was a disabled chap more or less living on what was a 24 hour mooring in brassknocker basin.

Hiya. It should be plumbed as per your second diagram. Cheers, Tony

Was it a Springsteen pump........ Born in the USA?

If it turns out that everyone claiming to be a continuous cruiser can decide to moor wherever they like, for as long as they like, because they have decided that that is their home area and the Human Rights Act means they can't be moved on, I can see CRT giving up in despair. Obviously, poverty will mean that they won't be able to pay any licence fees... and every town mooring will be permanently occupied by those refusing to move and paying nothing - unless CRT can get an expensive court order against every single one of them. However, squatting is, of course, now a criminal offence, and maybe CRT can use that legislation... the whole thing becomes ridiculous. Just a waste of time and money. Not that that will bother the non-movers - they won't need locks or other facilities anyway. David Icke says lizards.

Hallelujah!!

I agree......I have a soft spot for boats brought back from the dead !!!!

I notice that the model that NC has posted is an outdrive whereas the one journeyperson posted is an outboard so quite possibly factory variants on a basic hull shape

Before everything went dark I was trying to find a picture of my Shetland which has something similar but curved at the ends (and incidentally has ali angle screwed on the edge to cover the chips and marks of 25 years of outboards being badly affixed) Whichever it was it will need some sort of bulkhead fwd of the outboard up to cockpit side level or thereabout.

I see that both NC's comments about the transom and my reply have been lost..........Naughty Cal was saying about the transom being cut away......I was saying that the low transom was probably original and there would have been a watertight bulkhead a bit forward of it.....it looks sort of still there although modified in the earlier photo's. A lot of small GRP's designed for an outboard have something similar to allow a short shaft motor to be fitted and to enable it to be tilted easily. The watertight bulkhead (often with a watertight false floor under which fuel tank battery etc could be stored) maintaining the integrity of the hull against flooding.

Good Luck !!! There is a lot of fun to be had messing about in a boat of any size or type.........