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single handing is ok if you have a quick tug "you cant share my ring...."

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but Team Tawny Owl are captured on a previous BCN challenge on google streetview at Stoney Lane bridge Little Bloxwich. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/130+Stoney+Ln,+Walsall+WS3+3DN/@52.62648,-1.9918159,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4870a1df451d37d7:0x9ef0cfda34cedb6a!8m2!3d52.62648!4d-1.9912687

I have read the whole thread and commentated at certain points. As an owner of a boat with a BMC 2.2 I can only speak from experience as to BMC engines and IMHO if looked after they are good solid engines.

I suspect Yanmar might be one of those with expensive parts - especially when Barrus have added their cut. I can not remember seeing many agricultural or plant agents showing their are Yanmar suppliers unlike Kubota.

As far as I am concerned lady G and now yourself have made an unfounded statement. Personally I would rather have an engine where the manuals are readily available online and it is fairly easy to find spare. By all means say BMC engines are old technology, by all means say many BMCs around are worn out & poorly maintained but do not say they are complex. They are no more and no less complex than modern engines. I would also comment that despite the fairly small Yanmar user base on the inland waterway they seem to generate more than their fair share of questions to the magazine. If you can afford it then obliviously a modern low hours engine is LIKELY (not will) be more reliable than a 40 year old one but not everyone is in that position. They have to make do with what they can afford. Its nothing to do with old people or rosy glasses. In any case lady G has shown she thinks she knows it all and is not in the best position to comment on this thread. Of course they are. Methinks we have two contributors who give advice with little background knowledge.

Wiring is funny stuff but in this case I think I would get a couple of lengths of decent cable and just go straight from the batt to the fridge and see what happens, if it works ok then the batt is ok and so is the fridge. My guess is connections.

Probably the outlet for the PRV that is usually mounted close to the calorifier on the hot oulet.

It would take more than 102 due to narrow boats being considerably less width than the tunnel so would be likely to be zig-zagged. You should use all of the wide beam boats to be found on the G.U. Could you please arrange it to happen when I next go towards London from Stoke Bruerne please, then I'll know where all of the blasted things are?

Belated, but here is the Skeleton Argument of CaRT for last month’s trial: - https://www.scribd.com/document/350923297/Ravenscroft-v-CaRT-Defendant-Skeleton

I'll be there on the Sunday, I don't have a historic boat but I have a historic boat captain I usually bring along. This is him age 11.

I heard legging through tunnels was likely to result in the death penalty being re-introduced.

Well said, Bewildered. My early boating experiences were largely with ex working craft, learning from both working boaters and those who strove to emulate them, myself included. Walking the gunnels, the cabin top and at times the top planks were all part of the boating norm. I can only deplore the mindset that adopts modern practice and seeks to impose it on others. I came to the cut as a youngster for the freedom to be found, along with the chance to use initiative and to absorb the sense of tradition. I've been very fortunate to use these in my work as a signwriter and boat decorator. Travelling around traditional yards in the course of the job, I'm in regular touch with many old timers, both boaters, builders etc. So many, indeed most, share this sort of nonsense with gloom, some of whom are no longer as keen on boating because of these modernisms. It's not just me. For several years now I've preferred to boat in quieter months. One colleague avoids school holiday weeks like the plague. Having suffered an arthritic hip for some time and now convalescing following a new one, boating is on the back burner. At the moment, I'm not anxious to start again. Time will tell...... Dave

You have to leave Tedington very early to do that

Yes https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Baker+St,+Tipton+DY4+8JX/@52.5233091,-2.071473,241m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487099e59c23ea13:0x9ec5172f23cc7318!8m2!3d52.5233388!4d-2.0711267 Richard

You're so vain. You probably think this post is about you.

Perhaps you don't live on your boat then.

That white light is part of your navigation lights that go with the red and green one, its not there to light your cockpit. It is something that may be required if you are navigating some rivers in bad weather or after dark just like the red and green one.

Marmite and lettuce sarnies!