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I think it might depend on the stove material. Our stove is steel with a cast iron door I didn't find polish worked very well on the body of the stove, but it worked ok on the door. Paint was much better. I assume that the polish absorbs into the surface of the cast iron whereas it just seems to sit on the surface of the steel

I'd just buy a 240V dvd player (unless you want the portable aspect as well). You can get some quite compact ones nowadays. and power consumption is pretty minimal. 10-15W

Really I wouldn't be worrying about it it. The inverter is not a reason to to not buy a boat. We have an old 1000W inverter on our (also ex hire) boat. I am planning to probably install a larger one at some point (especially as it's quiescent load is pretty high) but ignore the seller it's really not a big deal to install a larger one, it just means running some larger cables to the batteries. You will probably find you end up wanting to do upgrades to the electrical system anyway. (We have added solar, next on the list is the batteries, which are just bog standard LA and are showing signs of coming to EOL) Buy, it live on it for a bit, then you can work out how you will live on the boat and upgrades you might want to do. Especially as you will be on a residential mooring with shoreline.

Yes, those DC-DC chargers get V hot, which also causes them to throttle, there re various videos on youtube with people using ducted fans to cool them eg The new Orion XS 50A is a new design which runs alot cooler by all acounts

Pretty sure there is enough difference in the way they move and GPS location data for software on a phone to be able to uses the phones accelerometers to be able to have a good stab at this. My Applewatch will offer to automatically start tracking workout if it thinks I am doing a certain activity, it's pretty reliable at spotting I am walking or running, but I gets confused by cruising on the boat and suggests I might be cycling (at 3mph? 🙂 )

Have you tried Hartford Marina at Huntingdon? We used to be moored there (not liveaboard) and there are lots of people liveaboards there, not sure of their official status, pretty sure some at least were residential, some of those boats never moved out of the marina in the 18 months we were there. Not cheap, but good rise and fall pontoon moorings for when the GO goes into flood in the winter

The warning buzzer is triggered by the domestic alternator light on my Beta 43. It might not be critical, but it is rather useful to know

We have an Ecoflow unit, same sort of thing. When we bought it, Jackery were I think using Lithium ion batteries rather than LiFe Po4 batteries (though the newer units now use the later I believe) and there was something about the Bluetti I didn't like. It wasn't really bought for powering things on the boat specifically, it's used for camping and other activites (eg recharging power tool batteries when away from mains) , but we do use it on our narrowboat as the electric system needs some upgrading. It's on the to do list but until that time we use it for powering some 240V stuff (eg toaster, rice cooker, the occasional mains power tool) to reduce the load on the boats system especially when not much solar about) We don't live aboard but when we use it on the boat I either recharge it from the boats inverter when cruising or from the 12V supply. I keep meaning to get round to rigging it up so that I could recharge from the boats solar Ours is a Delta 2 unit. 1024 Wh battery IIRC. which works for what we use it for, and is a size and weight that it's pretty easy to move about I don't think I'd buy one for a boat specifically, the money probably better spent in that case on a better built in system, especially if we are talking something that can run something like an air fryer. unless it was as a tide you over situation until permanent stuff can be

The gas test point on our NB is underneath the gunwhale where the bedroom is, just before the pipe goes through the wall into a cupbaord in the galley

If he stays on the Anglian waterways, then that's no issue. Plenty of places on the G Ouse as well as Foxes on the Middle Level to get blacking and maintenance done We have a non-liveaboard narrowboat on the Great Ouse, but if I was getting a boat just to mostly live on on a permanent mooring I'd probably get a 9-10ft beam boat, a nice amount of extra space, and if you want to cruise it, a good size to cruise on the G Ouse. and if you don't cruise at least occasioanlly, you are missing out. It's a lovely river

Missing: There is an EA waterpoint, elsan and pumpout in Ely on the Great Ouse W3W: ///shredding.backswing.desire

Yep. We bought a NB last year, it is insured it with GJW on thier standard policy, No where was how much we paid for the boat mentioned. I was just asked to supply a value I wish the boat to be insured for, and the policy just says they will payout up to that value (which is basically what we paid for it at th emoment) Clealry I could say anything, but in the event of a large claim I expect them to make an assesment of the current market value of the boat

Prestone just use standard Mono ethylene glycol as the antifreeze component. The ready to use stuff is a equivalent 50:50 mix. To make a 25%/75% mix as recommended by Webasto, dilute the ready to use stuff 50:50 (so dilute 1litre of ready to use with 1 litre of water)