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  1. Actually I think you should contact the Kingston Divers ASAP and possible attend their meeting (near Tolworth Towers) on thursday evening. Offer then some pics and project sketches then ask for their suggestions, remember this is partly a training exercise for them,partly a PR exercise and partly a salvage job. However in all likelyhood they will have all the buoyancy you need plus all the underwater manpower you need plus probably all the pumps you want. They will also likely have all the dive boats etc that they will want to put the gear and people where they need to be.
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  4. Well, it would seem not, having recently produced a printout showing my boat's current Home Mooring as the same location since 2003. Not only is this some six years before I bought the boat, but it also omits the period up to the end of September 2011 when I was renting a Long Term Mooring from BW/C&RT at Holme Lock on the Trent. When questioned about this C&RT's local Enforcement superstar, Stuart Garner said . ." Oh it's that `thing` with our system". He obligingly went on to explain that when a new location for a boat is being entered how their system can erase the previous locations and re-enter them as the same as the new location. Keen to find out more I contacted a specialist IT company and from their appraisal of what had been said, their advice was to ask C&RT the following :- Since being made aware of the problems with your computer system by Stuart Garner during a telephone call on 14 July 2014, I have sought advice from a specialist IT company experienced in providing software systems for process management and record keeping for such as Government Departments and Police. They have indicated that the constant retrospective Location Record changes at the time of new entries against Customer or Contract numbers may well be due to the lack of a secure and valid audit trail, rendering the system unfit for purpose. Obviously more information is needed for full assessment of your system and the implications for boat owners, and C&RT, of your use of it. I am unsure whether we should ask for this information as an FOI Request or an SAR. Please advise. Signed A.K.Dunkley. Unsurprisingly there is, as yet, no reply.
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  5. Went to see the kelpies ( water horse ) yesterday to say they are stunning is a under statement they are what you call a work of art beautiful even , we got to go inside there are some clever men about every panel came flat and they formed every one on site and no two panels are the same , the weather was typical of Scotland sunny with heavy showers We then went on to see the Falkirk wheel another work of art although I have been before I thought I would go again as it is only about 5 miles away and I would not get to see it again as our narrow boat will be ready in 6 weeks time and we will be constant cruisers so dought if I will be going to bonnie Scotland again
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  6. I think you need to ask the police if the guy in the lock had a silicon gun....polymer terrorism is the new craze...
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  7. Laurence, I am a self confessed "shiny boater". However, I have a love of the history of our canals. Any book, recording, video of the past I avidly devour, I am fascinated by the restored working boats of the past and the life led on them. However, Nick is right in his thinking the canals are as they are now, there cannot be a return to the past. Without the hire boats, in my view the successor of the working boat as they are earning money, which is the sole reason of the existence of the working boat of the past, the shiny boats etc.. the canals as we know them would not exist. I do try to operate my shiny boat within the accepted practices of the past, and yes I do understand the history. You are fortunate to have the use of work horses from the past, not all of us are able or want a ex working boat, but that is where they are from - the past, their role can never be fully recreated, a glimpse yes, but that is all. Please have a wider vision, you have a wealth of knowledge but at times you come across as somewhat pompous, IMHO of course. There is room for us all.
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  8. Why not ask Northernboater, he's always very helpful and full of knowledge.
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  9. The L&L is, in our opinion, the prettiest canal in England. some of the locks and swing bridges are a real pain. Bob
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  12. Try saying that after a few pints.
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  13. Nick I was there on Saturday, all bywashes gurgling happily.....a lockful of water would have been neither here nor there in the scheme of things. If you are unable to appreciate a recreation of working practice without niggling caveats, then I almost despair....time I hung up my windlass and leave the cut to others, I'm sick of the way things have developed...petty point scoring among folk who have little, if any knowledge of how things used to be. The cut is my workshop as well as my playground, though for how much longer is a debateable question. Your pontifications, probably tongue in cheek, do little to help..you appear technically knowledgeable, but that seems to be as far as it goes. Dave
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  14. Why would you imagine that? It seems quite clear to me that the vast majority of cases (although not all) "seemingly" persecuted by CRT actually consist of people who are actually trying to push the boundaries between what is acceptable and what is not. There seems to be a line peddled by some that as these people are boaters, and as they would be adversely affected if the authority gets its way as to where the boundaries between right and wrong lie, I should support them, because I am a boater as well. It may be a good bit of rabble rousing, but it is muddle headed in the extreme. I may well be a boater, but it does NOT follow that anything that is good for a particular boater will also be good for me. Allowing those who want to push the envelope and try to do as they please to do so will fairly likely lead to a number of others doing likewise. It only takes a fairly small number of people to do this, and a tiny minority start to have an adverse impact on the majority.
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  15. Can you point me to a post where you say you DO? You always seem to me to side with the piss-takers against CRT, and you constantly criticise me for being a hard liner, which I'm not. I just want consistent enforcement.. For example in my recent survey you suggested it was fine to evade paying for a licence if you've 'fallen on hard times'. In what way could that be classed as supporting consistent enforcement? MtB
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