Alan de Enfield

And that is why (and so it should be) Artificial Ignorance is BANNED from the forum !!!!

So you can ignore rules with impunity ? Maybe the owner needs to decide which rules apply and delete those that don't.

Presumably, as a new member, you have read and agreed to follow the forum rules - and yet here you are on your 1st post breaking the rules. The forum has rules about using AI to post. Maybe you should ask the moderators for permisssion before making any further posts.

But boat insurers can make whatever conditions they wish.

Maybe a suggestion to only charge the batteries when there is someone on board to monitor the situation would be a good idea ! (O' thats what the insurance companies are specifying - so, thats that covered)

Well, if the boat has been built in compliance with the RCD it must have a practical and usable means of unaided boarding, (from the water). Apparently seveveral PCA surveyors have suggested that the 'welded tab' is insufficient to comply, suggestion being there should be tabs welded on the rudder, giving 'steps'. It is very diffficult to be in the water and try to get your foot up the the surface level and get a foot onto the top of the rudder.

Several reasons : Canal users would : Break them Burn them Lose them Local yobbs would : Steal them Wedge them between the gates Play jousting across the lock Throw them into the lock

I'm sure you coud have got the same message with 1/4 of the words ! 😈

Not very far (unless you are in a canoe) it gets extremely shallow (inches) and very rocky. Do not proceed past the 'limit of navigation' marked on the charts - to do so would (probably) invalidate any insurance, and if you got stuck you'd be 'on your own'.

Not all anchors - many people have realised the Danforth is not worth having and have invested in a type that actually works. @LadyG has a very good anchor - latest generation and more likely to pull her "T" off than fail to set correctly.

Probably not !

He is still on the forum - known as @rusty69 when wearing rubber or leather suits.

I learnt it in Cubs and Scouts.

Rope ladders are not designed to be climbed the same way as a conventional ladder Unless the bottom of the ladder is secured, you'll just end up 'upside down'. A rope ladder is'climbed' from the side.