Muddy Ditch Rich

The licence is anything CRT say it is until you prove otherwise in court, the law only applies if you can enforce it. The faux ombudsman has already upheld that it is a contract, so you won't get any help there. You can wave the law at CRT but they don't care, you will have to fight one of the biggest corporate law firms in the UK first. All the warnings about what CRT were doing were ignored or rubbished by most boat owners, especially on this forum, so don't complain.

My living cabin is at the stern end of my boat, and I'm constantly being disturbed by other boats running engines and generators, noise and toxic exhaust smoke. I like the doors open, fresh air, and peace and quiet. In fact the next boat where I am moored now is stern to stern, and running his engine now past 9 pm, which is boiling my p. The next boat along has let his geny run until 4 am, and the boat next to that has a 2.5 kW open frame on his back deck running every evening. People are just using their boats as mobile generating stations just so they can sit in there and watch TV, spoiling the peace for everyone else. What happened to the simple canal boating life ? I have 500 w of solar.

An alternative view of that might be that CRT were aware that they were not lawful, rather than the comrade revolutionaries at the nbta screwed up a good idea just out of spite. I posited the idea being fully aware that WM's may be illegal but no one can do much about it, so we will have to live with it. Whether payment for any WM's is lawful or not is still not settled.

The most expensive way to buy Kerosene. £1.30 litre !

The wm's round my neck of the woods are all in inconvenient places like Cosgrove, and three locks that are bus rides away from the shops if you haven't got a car, which most CC'ers don't have I would think. Why have they put them in remote places ? I think a better system would be a permit to stay anywhere you like for the winter excluding visitor moorings, different people have different needs, some want car parking nearby, some just peace and quiet, some near towns or facility's.

Does anyone have records from the canal carrying days that show the annual tonnage of dredging that was going on then ? It might be informative ?

Not as shallow as from New Bradwell to Cosgrove, that is not boating its ploughing.

The £250 was a new one from Chertsey, but I've emailed them if they have any used ones. Also had a quote for welding it for £60.

Trying to help a broken down boater that reversed their Z drive into the bank, busted the swivel fork, and chewed up the spines on the swivelling shaft. I have the parts diagram but its not clear which part this shaft is. http://www.chertseymeadsmarine.co.uk/enfield-drives/exploded-views/ New fork is £250, too much for the owner, does anyone have any of these used parts ?

And not included the mooring fees for little Venice, one of the most possibly the most expensive moorings on the system.

Aren't some new boats from this company made in China ?

Shouldn't the permission be a separate matter to a PBL licence ? it looks like CaRT have tricked trading licence holders out of the scope of the PBL and into a contractual licence. I'm not sure if trading licence holders are aware of this. Note that the business licence terms and conditions contain this little gem. "9.4 We reserve the right to refuse to issue you with any Licence in the future. "

If CaRT can arbitrarily refuse permission to trade on their waters via the bylaw ( I presume that decision is not required to be reasonable, and cannot be overturned by a court ? ) then is a contract the only lawful way left to trade ? Leaving out the blackmail issue for now.

If you don't need a special licence to trade as a shop in the first place, any admin cost of providing such a licence is purely their own making. No one has yet provided any evidence that such a licence is a statutory requirement. Unless you believe Mr Deards that an act of 1962 that does not contain any reference to licences or any thing like them, enacted more than a decade before licences were introduced, applies to licences.

Can a boater break the law if its only trivial in comparison to something else totally unrelated ?