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If they are paying their £25 per night, giving the owner a 100% occupancy rate, I bet he's not worried if they never move out.

Is HDPE easy to work? Can it be machined easily or does it melt? Only ask as the hangers i made are starting to delaminate after two years of service despite being well painted and i was thinking of using a different material once the spares have been used up. Pics for reference, i know the one showing how they tie-on isn't the best but it's all i could find.

Thank you very much - I've also been pointed at Etruria Marina, is this the same place?

This can be adapted if you will want to adjust or un-hitch frequently by putting the second hitch tail end to form a a loop, the tail end will then be released with a quick tug, it's not as secure, but if you then put the tail end back thru the loop it will be fine. Sounds a bit of a faff, but it is handy on occasion.

Are you actually saying that you do the full round turn as depending on the rope size I doubt with that eye you will get a full round in, and you do a half round and half hitches

Stoke Boats are about an hour's cruise from the bottom of the Caldon. They've got a slipway. The Stoke Boat Club are on the Caldon, they may be able to help.

Ah ok, thanks - we just stayed inside the fence last time we moored there 3 or 4 years ago which was fine. I wonder if you can still do that? Of course, that won't work here. I'll have a look at that Peter, thanks. We are AWCC so it becomes a possibility if there's a metro nearby. Thanks. Again, that Metro link is probably the key to many options - I'll investigate, thanks. Well the Marple flight will still be closed, so our only option is up the Rochdale 9 where I'd then like to hang a left rather than go right and up the Ashton only to have to back down to carry on. Must needs though, so it's worth a look, thanks. Yeah, beyond a stone's throw would be nice! Is it a bona fide mooring? Tarmac cycle tracks with no rings are proliferating nowadays, so I don't want to go all the way there only to find that scenario. Otherwise, that option might be the best solution, thanks. Ah, that's a cracking bit of local knowledge, thank you. Thanks all, very useful. More input also appreciated. Also, what's occurring at New Islington marina? Visitor moorings, 7 in number, advertised at £25 per night and it's full now and it seems so through til June? Doesn't sound right to me.

Yes I wouldn't want it a fixed length. Better to have it height adjustable. I just use a round turn and two half hitches on mine but there's probably a better knot that's easier to undo.

If you have access to a mains water supply you could test the doorframe by spraying it with a hose. Hold the end of the hose up so that the water arcs up and comes down like rain rather than spraying it directly. Or you could use a garden watering can.

I’m with Steve on this one!

It was painted at Braunston, almost certainly the work of Frank Nurser

The underlying issue is that the intentions of a poorly worded law are being misused on a scale that adversely impacts home moorers and is increasing. Surcharging may make some think twice. This is the same approach as charging extra for widebeam boat licences.

We had this can from Mr Davies of the Junction Boatyard in 1957. It was old then. I do not remember whether he told us where it came from. It may just have been there in the yard. It is heavy - empty it weighs 6 kilos. Any ideas as to its possible origin? If more photos would help I can add them.

One poster wrote this: "The CC surcharge on the license fee goes at least part-way to correcting this anomaly (and increases CART income), and simply means that everyone -- CCer or CMer or HMer or EOGer -- pays a similar amount to CART. Or at least CCers don't continue to pay less -- some HMers who pay CART directly or via EOG obviously pay much more. It's a bit like closing a historical tax loophole that some people have taken advantage of but now protest when this is corrected... 😉" The only reason HMers and EoG moorers pay more than CCers is because they are paying for exclusive moorings. They pay extra for the extra they choose to have. Moorings do not come for free. That is why they pay more, they have more. And both home moorers and EoG moorers should now be liable to be included in the PAYG culture when they are not on their moorings, that a lot seem to think should apply to CCers. I think the mentality of some home moorers is: They think CCers should be liable to pay Hmers and EoG moorers some kind of indirect subsidy. People that moor in marinas pay 9% of their mooring fee to the marina, so that the marina can pay one of its overheads to CRT. There's absolutely no connection there between the moorer and CRT. There's no directly paying anything to CRT by those moorers. EoG moorers have a mooring contract liability. End of. IanD and some moorers are full of BS entitlement delusions.

Nah, Ive just paid £4.80 for another one of the Cloudwater beers and it was very good, but still lots of stuff at £3.80.

Can anyone advise on a boatyard on or near the Caldon Canal, Staffordshire, where I might get a GRP 28 foot cruiser out of the water for a survey and onward road transport. Also, any recommendation for a surveyor in that area would be helpful please. Many thanks

Us taxpayers. Unfortunately we don't get to decide where they spend our taxes... :--(