Thanks for the replies. The reason I'm toying with the idea is that the boat is very rusty, especially above W/L, it's currently moored in a free mooring spot that I don't want to lose, doing the work locally (a couple of hundred yards) would minimise the risk of losing the spot. Grit blasting to save time and will allow me to epoxy the hull......
Hypothetically, could one drag a 42ft narrowboat up a concrete slipway on wooden rollers with a 1954 Austin K9 4x4 truck fitted with a meaty winch, shot blast, black it then shove it back in again with a big tyre on the front of said truck or am I being a FOOL to even think about such an ill conceived plan?
We fitted one (tenner) from b&q, works great, think they're made by a company called 'bloomer' or something. Even with 3 cats coming and going all night a set of Duracells last about four months.
C.
We liveaboard full time, went for a LEC A++ at around £150, spent the money we saved on buying a 24v fridge on solar panels @ £90 (90w x6). No problems at all after 2.5 years. We do however have 550 amps of Trojan batts and a 24v dc genny that will produce upto 50 amps per hr, which I run about an hour a day in winter and a Victron multi thingy......
C.
My knowledge is for yachts only but if you have the original bill of sale proving vat paid in your home or another EU country or if the boat was built before 1991and has been in EU waters most of the time since then, then no further vat is payable. We don't have the original bill of sale, just a reciept and sales contract from when we bought our yacht from a German boatyard plus letters from two German harbour masters stating that she's always lived there since being built in '86. 8 years ago andhhad no issues sailing from UK to Greece over 3 years.
C.
I recently bought a cheap (£20 ish) 1500w inverter from ebay for my camper and it lasted a day just running a tabletop fridge, the build quality was very poor and weighed nothing. Having booked a ferry ticket to France for the following day I had to get a replacement PDQ so got one from Toolstation which is still working fine.
Having said that I also bought a cheap (£150) 1500w pure sinewave jobby from ebay 6 years ago for my yacht and it's never let me down.
I guess just don't go too cheap!
Hi folks,
After a recent spate of breakins round here I'm looking at fitting one of the above. Not sure if I can use a wifi hotspot (via cellphone ) to connect it to the web or will I need a mifi router.
Has anyone fitted these things? Any tips?
Cheers,
C.
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