Stay Positive With Sound Battery Care

It was a bit of a shock, I can tell you. When I pressed the starting button, instead of the throaty thud of my JP3 engine powering into life... there was a barely audible click followed by an ominous silence. Now, in the 25 years we’ve had our boat Justice, I can’t, hand on heart, say we’ve NEVER had problems starting our engine.

- Steve Haywood

There was once – ten years ago or so, was it? – when I wasted an hour or so tinkering with the starting motor until Moira, who’d just brought me a cup of tea to bolster my morale, observed that it might work better if I switched on the electricity that made it go.

Then there was that time more recently when I’d got the sound of a click too – but that was just the starting motor sticking and after turning the flywheel by hand, the problem was solved.