blackrose

Are you saying that it's just a grub screw holding or just locating the prop to the shaft or have I misunderstood? What diameter is the grub screw? On mine a keyway and taper locates the prop to the shaft with a nut behind the prop. Edit: sorry just re-read your post. I wasn't sure what a pillow bearer was but I guess the grub screw goes into the bearer rather than the shaft.

I didn't say it was what RAL was for?

And then of course if you factor in that colour perception is subjective and different people may interpret "the same colour" differently, the variables become insolvable.

Why do so many English people commonly use that odd expression these days? It sounds wrong and I'm sure it's grammatically incorrect. Surely you mean you've suffered from mental health issues or mental health problems. You can't suffer from mental health.

But that probably wasn't the only time you needed to carry an anchor. It's a bit like paying for insurance. You hope you're never going to need to use it but you'd be a fool not to have it. So in that sense an anchor is being used every time you venture onto a river or tidal waterway even if it doesn't move.

Efficiency may be variable from person to person because it's dependant on how or even if a fuel gauge is used. For example, if an accurate electronic gauge is on the wall and is easy to read then there's a fair chance the person using that system will have a better idea of how much fuel is in their tank than the person (like me) who uses a dipstick but rarely actually uses it because of the hassle of finding it, dipping it, wiping the diesel off and putting it away. In my case I hate getting diesel on my hands so I'd put on some latex gloves first too. The electronic version sounds much more efficient to me.

Or runaway diesel engines... I had a mate who overfilled an old engine because he couldn't see the level of new oil on the dipstick so stupidly poured a load more in. He had no idea how to stop it once it ran away. The engine was wrecked and he was very fortunate that the boat didn't catch fire. Apparently smoke was pouring out of the boat and the harbour master at the French marina was at the point of setting it adrift to protect other boats when it eventually stopped. That's interesting. Why is there that difference between the two? Well, I've only ever had one battery explode on my boat and it wasn't lithium. I was just lucky I wasn't in the engine space at the time as I'd have been seriously injured. Yes indeed! I can't help thinking that some of the anti-lithium naysayers don't realise the benefits of LFP batteries on boats, especially for off-grid liveaboards. Combined with a decent solar system it's almost like being on shore power. Even in the depths of winter I only need to run my generator once every 10 days or so. Once you install LFP, lead-acid batteries seem like something from the dark ages.

Which exclusion? Sorry, I'm just catching up...

I disagree. I think we need more pinned threads, not fewer. Then we wouldn't have so many repeated topics and some of our more aggressive forum members wouldn't need to get so frustrated and harangue newbies for not searching in the archives.

What made you imagine someone putting some decking over scaffold poles would be an engineer? It's just a DIY job that wasn't finished. Perhaps whoever did it didn't own an angle grinder. Your friend managed to find the only mooring at Staines that wasn't suitable for his boat. I used to moor on the other side of the river, sometimes overnight down by the riverside pub/restaurant by the railway bridge. But I always had a couple of tyres on rope attached to those handrail hooks.