Recent content by Manny

It depends on a couple of things. Does Mrs OldDan want to come to bonnie Scotland to look for Nessie up a fellas kilt? Or Do you want lassies taking pictures up yer kilt?

I live in Paisley!

To get to the steel on the inside, I had to rip out the fish hold. The horizontal joints have a rolled edge and overlap. This is the starboard side. I know of two holes holes on this side. The other hole is in the fuel tank.

The deepest pit, apart from the holes is 6mm. The hull below the waterline is 8mm. I am building a new rudder, this one is past being salvageable.

Let me know if I'm posting too many pictures. Having done some projects in the past, I regret not taking enough pictures. Get ready for this.......

have you been to the Isle of Skye? is a magical place. are you a MacLeod?

She came in at 55 tons On the hoist. Her light weight is supposed to be 40tons, so not too sure where the additional 15tons comes from.

All the shelter deck has been removed leaving a huge open deck. We spent a few weeks prepping the engine which is a 8l3b and not a 8lx, and got her starting and running. We had a 5 hour motor to the boat yard as she wouldn't go faster than 4.5kn due to all the growth. Now that she is out the...

My Gardner has 2 bleed screws on the injector pump, instead of pumping for 72hours, I just remove the screws and fill with diesel. Turning the engine without fuel in the injector pump is not a great idea as the diesel lubricates the pump.

We have a Dutch steel, ex fishing trawler conversion, wee bit bigger than your average narrowboat On the west coast of Scotland, fire wood is plentiful, as is coal and peat. I have a reflex diesel heater that is big enough to heat a cabin, but like the idea of a wood stove with back boiler...

It's going into a steel boat, and in all honesty, CO2 poisoning concerns me more than fire. The wood /coal burner is not the prime source of heating , but it is nice to make the most of it when it does get used.

Aye, very good, bet that heats up yer boat quite well.

there are few things nicer than sitting I front of a real log fire and we have the space. An unlimited supply of wood helps too.

That's good to know we can preheat the engine using the stove. Most of our cruising on the west coast of Scotland is very rural. We will have a diesel boiler installed aswell so we can get cleaner heat in marinas and keep the heat going when no one is on board..

Does anyone have a solid fuel stove on their boats? We are installing a wood/coal stove with back boiler, that would heat radiators throughout the boat. Has anyone plumbed their heating though the engine so as to warm up the engine on cold mornings before starting it?