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  2. so it would appear that the blind judges who rule on 'the law', and certain amateur (possibly even some professional) lawyers, would offer no comfort to those who would like to cruise on the canals, but are severely limited by the oscillating non-continuous cruisers who do not pay any council tax, but who clog up any useful moorings in popular places like, for example, the western K&A. it doesn't encourage me to cruise at a snail's pace past the miles of continuously moored boats (some with the fashionable rusty bikes and log piles on the cabin roof, and nettles growing from the rubber tyre fenders). Of course if every bona-fide cruiser kept up a reasonable speed and kept said boats shaken up the occupants may eventually find that way of life to be intolerable and choose a different mode of cheap housing or, better still, decide to enjoy the delights of CONTINUOUS CRUISING.
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  3. Yes, but it is not all positives. I find the strain on my mooring ropes caused by running the ecofan when moored wears them out prematurely. I even out the wear by turning the fan to point to the bow and then to the stern from time to time. I obviously can't turn it sideways as this would risk blowing the windows out.
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  4. I really do not understand why you people insist on feeding these trolls. You are never going to get the free riders to admit that what they are doing is wrong and against all the terms and conditions of The Canal and River Trusts licence. I honestly do not know how any of you have any time to cruise the system. It seems to me that most of you spend the vast majority of your time arguing the toss with people who will NEVER admit that what they are doing is wrong and sometimes, even illegal. I stopped posting here because of this. There is absolutely no point in arguing with these people or even trying to point out in a reasoned and sound way that all they want to do is take the p**s. I do still read this forum. Occasionally, and at the moment it is only very occasionally, there is some useful information but mostly it is just keyboard warriors banging on and banging on about things they will not, nor cannot, do anything about. Until C&RT decides to go all out to deny the free loaders their day, and we all know that isn't going to happen any time soon, there is no point in shouting about it on a forum.
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  5. If it really has taken you 27 years to complete your last jigsaw, I hope you bought one with less pieces this time!
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  11. Hi again As Peter says York although fab has serious flooding issues and hard to get a mooring though not impossible. I would suggest you go to York and Leeds and walk and talk to people in the various boaty places, I have found directly meeting and talking when it comes to boats is by far the best way to find out the lay of the land so to speak. Leeds as stated has moorings and if you dont need to be totaly central as a for instance there are some fab moorings at Woodlesford where I used to moor that are often available and an easy commute to leeds. DO NOT underestimate the costs involved
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  15. If you go as far as Duke's Cut (photo in a post above) you have done the best of the Southern Oxford. This makes a handy place to turn - you can leave the gate open, wind the boat, and go straight back in if there's nobody else about. I would recommend: Folly at Napton (maybe for your last night?) Wharf Inn at Fenny Compton - really good and great value food, handy moorings, small shop Brasenose Inn at Cropredy - 2 mins walk from canal - small shop on bridge 153 Banbury is not really a place I would choose to moor at, but go up onto bridge 168 and you are on the edge of a Morrison's car park. Great Western at Aynho is really excellent, but not cheap. Lovely countryside around Somerton Deep - great place for quiet mooring. The Bell at Lower Heyford - signs from canal at metal lift-bridge - good value food, 5 mins walk Boat Inn at Thrupp - good food, not cheapest but OK - always annoyingly difficult to moor - Thrupp is a boat storage area Beautiful canal (until they build HS2). Hope you enjoy.
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  19. I have one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/HooToo-Wireless-Performance-TripMate-Hotspot-x/dp/B00I00J8DW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1492871826&sr=8-5&keywords=hootoo Amazing for the price. I stick it in the window and we use three devices on one log in. It is a wifi repeater/router.
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  22. Leave the front and back cabin doors open and a suitably directed ecofan can propel a boat at a considerable clip without needing the engine. The biggest problem is not exceeding the 4mph speed limit. You need a communication system from the steerer to the person in charge of the ecofan, pointing it forward, or aft as appropriate for reverse and forward gear. Experienced ecofan users have very long morso cables to the stove for single handed boating Jen
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  23. Who told you that? If the humidity was so high that the bare steel needed painting within 4 hours then I'd say you probably shouldn't be painting anyway because the conditions aren't right. And if what you're saying were true then surely most builders efforts would have been wasted painting on bitumen and topside primers to hulls in the first place? Most don't get the paint onto the bare steel within 4 hours. The Jotamastic 2 part epoxy system I used on my boat is well capable of dealing with flash rust - not that there was any after a day of bare steel on my hull. It took a whole day to sweep the boat clean and spirit wipe the bare steel with thinners (No 17 for Jotamastic 87), so there was no way it could have been painted within 4 hours. If you're ultra-high water jetting then you would be left with flash rust so you'd need a paint system that could cope. Aluminium needs painting within about 20 minutes with etch primers or other paint systems, but what you're saying about steel is just wrong.
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  24. They make as much sense as a Composting bog
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  25. You are getting into very dangerous territory here, I think.
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  26. A Blonde was talking with her friend and telling her that she was very proud to have completed her jigsaw puzzle, as it as labelled '3-5 years' and it had only taken her 2 years.
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  27. Exactly what the Judge said C&RT COULD NOT enforce, (I have mentioned a couple of times further up the thread.) I will repeat it again for those 'hard of searching' 6:3 There are clear anomalies in both positions, CRT clearly regard the occupation of moorings by permanently residential boat owners who do not move very much as a significant problem (see paragraphs 3.5 and 3.6 above). However, neither the statutory regime in subsection 17(3) nor the guidelines can deal with this problem. A boat which has a home mooring is not required to be “bona fide” used for navigation throughout the period of the licence, but neither is it required to ever use its home mooring. The act requires that the mooring is available, it does not say it must be used. The guidelines also have this effect. The boat is still subject to the restriction that it must not stay in the same place for more than 14 days but there is nothing whatever to stop it being shuffled between two locations quite close together provided they are far enough apart to constitute different places. If those who are causing the overcrowding at popular spots have home moorings anywhere in the country the present regime cannot control their overuse of the popular spots. Such an owner could cruise to and fro along the Kennet & Avon canal near Bristol and the home mooring could be in Birmingham and totally unused
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  28. That's right - Black Prince operate from Wigram's Turn which exits on Napton Jn. You could make it to Oxford and back in a week if your Karma is in credit but it's a busy canal because it's so beautiful and it does get short of water. We stock up the fridge and larder before heading down from Napton, restock up at Morrisons @Br.168 in Banbury on the 2nd full day, and reach Thrupp on 3rd day where you can easily turn before the lift bridge. Have a look if there is a mooring below it and reverse down to grab it if there is. A local shop near Kidlington is about a mile down the towpath @Br.224 if you need milk/eggs etc. You're only 1/2 a day from Oxford now - do you feel lucky? Re-restock at Banbury on return.
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  29. It's called 'breasting up' on the inland waterways and it entirely depends on the other boater, you just have to ask. Some are so precious about their shiny boat that they will look at you in horror. Others are more amenable.
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  30. I nipped to Aldi yesterday to pick up a jigsaw to replace my 27 year old one and also some solar spotlights. Bought Kathy a pack of 4 aloe vera toilet rolls so she didn't feel left out.☺
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  34. Makes no difference as I said CaRT do not and have never enforced any bylaws. My speculation is that they wish to only promote the false idea of a licence terms and conditions contract, and quietly forget about the bylaws, cancellation of a contract requires no evidence or prosecution by a court, a lie told often enough becomes reality.
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  35. I would think that they have thought about how this will diminish the numbers able to attend -- and then concluded how very desirable that would be!
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  36. Thinking about it, once the oven is up to temperature the average power consumption is probably about 800W so a big solar array(say 500W) would cover the oven with 2 or 3 hours of sunshine in the brighter months. Or you could have a big concave mirror and focus the sun into the oven cavity, great for kebab cooking.
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  37. Agreed, but a contract does not override statute if the statute is silent. What part of the licence conditions directly contradicts Section 17 of the Waterways Act 1995? It is ridiculous to assert that no other conditions than these stated in that section can apply to the issue or revocation of a licence. The most obvious one is that payment must be made, or are you asserting that I can insist on the issue of a free licence, provided I have insurance , a BSS and a home mooring (to keep it simple!) ? Section 17(9) of the Act states "Nothing in this section shall affect any power of the Board under any other enactment to refuse or withdraw a relevant consent." It is at least arguable that "other enactment" could be construed as the Transport Act 1962 Section 43(3). Edited to add : True, CaRT has no powers to levy fines. Neither do private parking companies. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/03/britains-biggest-parking-fine-motorist-told-must-pay-24500-ignored/
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  38. The OP has a naive and shallow understanding of boat electrics across the board. This is not a blameworthy fault, it is just a consequence of taking on a big challenge without experience. I would strongly recommend him to attend TB's (now RCR's) excellent training courses before making any more purchases or decisions, to the extent that that is possible. It is just not possible to fill so many holes via a discussion forum. Each answer generates a response that needs a further explanation. IMHO.
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  39. True, I do not have to prove 'bona fide' continuous navigation and may return to the same neighbourhood on trips out from my mooring as often as I choose. The intent of the comment was regarding the 14 day rule on moorings not signposted to be of any other fixed period. Perhaps I should have made that point clearer. Thanks for pointing it out, Alan.
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  40. Yep, I'm aware of that but I was wondering how much bodge fluid the inhibitor might wash away.
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  41. We could split this topic in two: this one for canal boats and another one called "What has Naughty Cal fettled today" - I reckon the two would have similar numbers of posts! There's always something needs doing on a Narrowboat, but seagoing cruisers take it to another level!
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  42. Which BW livery are you wanting?, after the DIWE variations, a set livery was produced. But as always there are serious variations to the blue depending on where the boat was docked. The only "defined" livery was for the Southern trading boats out of Bulls Bridge. The details of the BW sheets are shown below, paint suppliers can now match the BW ref numbers, we used Turners in Hawks Green Cannock (01543 577168), the results were excellent. These details were supposed to be a general livery for all depots, however only Bulls Bridge followed exactly. Depots such as Bradley used Manders Midnight blue which was locally made and stencilled the lettering in straight lines, Hayhurst at Northwich more or less followed the rules but docks like the one a Stockport adapted the LNER livery to blue and yellow.
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