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  1. From experience of working a full size pair (with varying degrees of success) you will need to avoid situations where you have to unexpectedly hit reverse, especially if you are in the process of turning. The butty will have considerable momentum and you risk it overrunning the towing boat, effectively jack-knifing the pair. So, with a super-cautious approach to, for example, blind bends that might hide moored boats, you may well be OK.
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  3. Just by way of how far things have changed from the days of everyone having their own mug ....
  4. Speaking as a pub owner I would encourage you not to sit warming your pint in a death-grip for too long. Get it down your neck whilst it's cool and buy another. In anticipation .... sorry about the prices - supermarkets sell their beer cheaper than our suppliers do, and we have overheads to cover. Our suppliers put their prices up 18% recently, which equates to 60p a pint if we were to maintain a fully viable GP. We haven't done that yet, just 30p.
  5. No. It isn't. However, as I said, should any contamination occur that causes illness and that can be specifically traced back to the re-use of a glass, more generic legislation would cover it. Same principle as it not being illegal to smoke whilst you're driving, but if it leads to you being distracted and crashing, it could be held that you were not in proper control of the car, which is an offence.
  6. There are others on here way more knowlegeable than me regarding these matters, but even though that sounds like a robust set up all battery systems have their limits, so with (I assume) a 230v fridge freezer and washer dryer you may have to plan a bit. Keep in mind there are rules about when you can run your engine if not moving, many say running them without any real load is bad for them and running them in gear whilst moored is frowned upon as it can potentially damage the canal bank.
  7. Not sure about the legality of it TBH, but where the beer is served via a long spout that is partly submerged by the pour, it is conceivable that a previous user may have transferred 'something' via saliva into the glass, which then transfers to the spout and lurks before being washed off by the next pour. We don't sell real any ale,* most often associated with that type of pump and use short nozzles that don't come into contact with the glass contents for our fizzy beers and ciders. Default is a fresh glass every time but no argument if you want to keep hold of your first one, as there is a negligible chance of contamination where there is no immersion. * I wish we did, but our punters don't want enough of it to warrant stocking it, we were chucking out half kegs every week. 'Spoons across the road that we can't and won't try to compete with on price. Edit to add: I was pretty sure it isn't a specific requirement in law to use a fresh glass each time, and it seems that's the case. That said if anyone falls ill and can prove the cause was the sort of contamination I've described, you could be in bother, thus the safe practice is to insist on a fresh glass every time for the serve. Nothing stops the punter from keeping their glass and decanting.
  8. If you are intending to cruise, suggest you unplug the shore line mains ands see what works and for how long before you set off. Can't see any reference to what batteries / inverter you've got.
  9. Briststops and SearchforSites. However: A lot of pubs are charging now, or expect you to eat which can be a quick way to spend £50 or more for a 'free' pitch. Very few pubs have water or waste disposal. Very few pubs have EHU. So true enough for the OP to have to be aware given his travels will be dictated by where the boats are rather than heading for cheap stopovers.
  10. There are very few 'cheap' camper vans that would suit your purpose I suspect, their value went waay up in 2020 and hasn'r really come down yet. If you buy a liveable one, aside from the registration issues mentioned, you'd probably have to sell it before you could buy the boat, and risk losing more money than you'll spend on hotel rooms. Note too that the UK isn't particularly motorhome friendly - you can't just park up in a layby overnight without the risk of being moved on and the availablility of fresh and waste water facilities is limited to sites that you have to pay to be on. They're cheaper than hotels, but can still be £25 and more per night. The Trivago website is a good place to look for room prices as it searches a lot of other booking sites like Hotels.com, Booking.com AirBnB and Vrbo. There are rooms in the likes of the Ibis chain near Rugby for around £60 a night. Might be worth doing a lot of the legwork on line via the ApolloDuck (or another broker's) website - it'll be a lot more efficient to arrive with a list of a dozen boats to look at at known locations. Factor in time for surveys etc.
  11. I'm glad you pointed this out - I was about to go on a rant about how bloody cheap even the 'expensive' prices quoted are. Commercial rates have been quoted as high as 97p a unit recently.
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