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Sea Dog

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  1. Slightly tangental to your query, if you're worried about wet decks and/or doormats, have you thought of something like DriDek matting? I have this in my cratch, gas locker and on the steerer's step - rain or spills drain away underneath it leaving you to stand on a dry and thermally insulated surface at all times. Not cheap, but very effective, good looking and long lasting - similar solutions by other brands and cheaper knock-offs are available.
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  3. The cordless one my son bought works on either a pick up from a container (or canal if you're on one and brave enough I suppose) or connected to a mains fed hose. As I said, it was bought for use in a hosepipe ban. It's more powerful when connected to a mains pressure hose, but perhaps that extra power is unnecessary or even undesirable for our application.
  4. Have you considered a cordless one? My son bought one from Screwfix or Toolstation for around £100 during a long hose pipe ban in Devon. Using it with a mains water pressure connection isn't far off a low end Karcher performance wise, but is a little more gentle sucking from a bucket. This might be much more suitable for boat use, both for freedom from mains electricity and mains water requirement and by being kinder to softer boat paintwork, window seals, canvas, etc. Haven't tried it myself yet, but it's on my to do list for spring.
  5. Well, it was drawing 2'8" on Christmas Eve, so then it's the holiday closedown period. Perhaps it was drawing 3'8" on Christmas Day, 4'8" on boxing day, etc, so when the OP next went to see it, he thought it had been sold as it had gone?
  6. Don't poke the bear I'd say. It being "sorted out" is unlikely to be to our benefit.
  7. Mildew I believe. If anyone has got out the black stains it leaves I suspect lots of boatists would like to hear how they did it.
  8. The ones sold by Anne Summers?
  9. Well, to be fair to Mr Ford, he probably assumed owners of electric slippers wouldn't want to pay more for a vehicle with an unnecessary supplementary heater.
  10. I have a flue brush, whether on not it's similar I don't know. Anyway, it's well old now, still in good nick and seems to do a reasonable job. Recently had the 15 year old flue out to replace the collar and there was no significant build up. That said, I burn only smokeless solid fuel and don't suffer from tar, which might be the difference. Actually, if it becomes necessary to follow rules and start burning fully seasoned "ready to burn" approved logs, it's probably worth considering switching to solid fuel, which stays in longer and also takes up less storage space.
  11. My Keis 12v motorcycle heated waistcoat certainly works a treat when I steer the boat in winter.
  12. Same in the Tour de Yorkshire, only it's the fish and chips wrapped in the newspaper that keep you warm...
  13. In my defence, I bought drinks and evening meals there so I did give it a fair crack of the whip!
  14. Seems entirely reasonable to me. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't awful - it just wasn't a place I'd be interested in using if I stopped near it l again. ETA. It was September the 13th, so maybe being "black Wednesday" it was an off-night!
  15. I'd crash in those circumstances. My seaman's eye gets very offended and won't let me stare at one for very long.
  16. I'm a bit surprised you went twice tbh - I won't be doing that.
  17. We ate there in September last. I was somewhat less than whelmed. Quite a few folk obviously off boats in there, but if there were any locals I didn't spot them. My guess would be that the location and transient nature of the clientele means they don't need to try too hard and any extra effort would be hard to justify as it would not figure on their balance sheet in any positive way.
  18. Wasn't yours a blower though as opposed to wet radiator central heating?
  19. Sorry Alan, you'd already answered the servicing query - which further supports my own "Reliability Centred Maintenance" approach!
  20. I have 2 CO alarms, one near the stove one at head height in the bedroom. Both normally read zero, although I think I've seen single figures on the one by the stove once or twice when taking far too long refuelling.
  21. My plan for "taking care" in such circumstances, if on the offside, is to immediately pull in to the towpath side and stop rather than continue and be forced into the trees and shallows.
  22. I meant the coaches, but the same applies to boat blowers. It seems to me that the DW issue might be a vulnerability rather than a certainty and I'm sure that there are many others like yours without issues. I suspect also that the regular dismantling for servicing introduces additional risk, although I doubt a manufacturer would support 'neglect' - did you follow an annual/hours-based service routine?
  23. Mine has a programmer which has a 1 hour boost button. Generally, that does the job although I still listen. Like you, I like to shut it down when it's on full power, so I wait for it to run back up, give it a couple of minutes, then switch it off. Meticulous or overthinking - I'm not sure, but it seems to like it. But they're Airtronic, aren't they? I believe Eber didn't have a problem with those - their investigation was only into early failures of the DWs. It's the water coming back to the unit hot that causes the short cycling, which is not an issue with the warm air blower.
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