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I can't see that, as such; do you have chapter and verse? Replacing a gas system or even installing one where none was present is not a Major Craft Conversion so, if the new gas system meets the Essential Requirements where is the trigger for a PCA?

Isn't it rather simpler? The RCR now governs the UK market; there is no longer the RCD (for the UK) and therefore no "new Directive". Moving on (less certainly...) the requirement for a PCA is in regulation 43 which only relates to private importers or where a Major Engine modification or Major Craft Conversion. Both of these Majors are reasonably well defined - with the latter including something that does not meet the Essential Requirements. And the Essential Requirements make no specific mention of (purely for example) multiple negative connections to battery posts, inspection hatches to fuel tanks or return wires to horns. So if a broker notes that someone has breached the Essential Requirements by (for example) unbolting the anchor strong point, it requires a PCA. More practically, if the owner replaces the strong point and takes his vessel to the next broker, it is difficult to see how the second broker is going to know that it was missing for a while. I am not claiming this makes it OK, but the moral would seem to be to ensure your boat gives your chosen broker no real reason to think it does not meet (nor has not ever met) the Essential Requirements. I don't see the broker has a duty to check everything in minute detail - just not to ignore a clear breach. Short of the broker arranging a PCA itself, it's hard to see how it can work otherwise.

But if you were included on the management, there would be £10s of millions of additional revenue each year.

Not at all. Someone (allegedly) offered CRT £2m for something. CRT sold something else to somebody else for £1m. The £2m person did not bid on what was actually for sale because they didn't want it. If that doesn't demonstrate CRTs incompetence, nothing will.

Gosh. Thanks for explaining it so simply. I would never have worked it out otherwise.

It's odd though. In 2021/22 CRT were brilliant as it gained £40m. Is it the staff have changed (or become useless)? Or is it something to do with the property market generally?

If Alan is referring to the BMEA or ISO, then these are optional and it is inappropriate to claim (without being more specific) that the vessel is non- compliant with the Boat Wiring requirements. Which of the RCD/RCR regulations (even assuming they apply) is not being met? I think your view of best practice is being conflated with formal requirements. Again.

Just because each group does not hold a diametrically opposed view on every possible issue doesn't support a generalised claim that their overall position is very similar.

Which are the Boat Wiring requirements not being complied with, please? I fear you may be conflating a view on best practice with compliance and requirements.

If one pane slides past the other, there is an extra channel of course, which might be where some of the confusion lies.

A couple of kids tipped carrier bags of water over us from above the portal of Blisworth tunnel. A quick reverse and a leap to the bank surprised them - so they ran off leaving their bikes on the towpath.....

Are you sure the battery showing a good voltage is the same one that serves the starter motor?

Great idea. It should be called Corporation Tax

Are boats in private marinas required to have CRT licences? If so, surely this would have been mentioned before.

I lived aboard to fulfill my cruising aspirations; I couldn't see another way of doing it. One year, we completed the Lea & Stort, Middle levels, Fens, K&A to Bristol, Lancaster, Caldon, Thames to Lechlade, Chesterfield Canal, Lincoln, Rochdale Canal, Weaver, Liverpool & more all whilst working too.

That depends on what is specified, surely. It also meets the regulatory standards for some boat wiring.

Yes. Its regular use predates the single core cable; 7/029 is broadly equivalent to 2.5mm2.

Is there no-one left that recalls 7/029, 3/029 and 7/049?

Do you mean cable diameter or conductor diameter?

Should everyone pay every type of tax every year?

In the last 10 years, has Blackrose travelled (by water) anywhere other than part of the Warwickshire Avon and part of the Nene?

I can see what you mean - but I find these units confusing. It seems odd that peak power is 0.7 somethings and yet the average is 2.2 somethings.

Yes An insurance company would usually require liability for a survey to extend to itself - or commission the survey directly, albeit with the prospective insured footing the bill

It comes back to definitions; if we are only considering flights - and it seems to be the suggestion that a staircase is not, in itself, a flight. There is a fair gap between the Bingley Three and Five so my guess is the Bratch has a steeper gradient notwithstanding its longer locks Indeed; it could be the record holder?