Alan de Enfield

My insurance covers my boats for 'stranding' (being stuck on the hard) 1.5 You can also claim for: 1.5.1 Salvage, towage and assistance charges. Your Insurers will pay the cost of saving Your Craft from a loss which You would be insured for under Your Policy. 1.5.2 Sighting costs. Your Insurers will pay the cost of inspecting the underwater part of the hull of Your Craft after a stranding even if there is no damage, providing Your Insurers have agreed the costs in writing beforehand. Whilst looking up the above, I notice a new clause has been inserted this year .................... 4.7 Lithium Ion Batteries If Your Craft, tender or toys are fitted with Lithium Ion batteries they must be charged within daylight hours, must not be left unattended whilst being charged and they must be used in accordance with the manufacturers’ recommendations/instructions. So - no going off for a 'pub-lunch' and leaving your solar panels connected.

Local business owners have rallied to support families displaced by the Llangollen Canal disaster, offering their narrowboats as temporary homes. Linda Edwards, who operates Cheshire Cat Narrowboat Holidays near the affected area, received an urgent request on Monday afternoon to assist those evacuated from their vessels. "We had to drop everything and go and get boats ready to receive them," she told the BBC. "[We had to] put bedding on, make sure the heating was on, make sure everything was ready to welcome them... and we had the boats ready for half-past six." Ms Edwards's company, based at Overwater Marina in Audlem in nearby Cheshire, is now housing two couples who were forced to abandon their floating homes. She also confirmed the families could remain until Easter, as her holiday fleet is closed for the winter season. David Ray, who runs Norbury Wharf on the Shropshire Union Canal near Newport, has similarly stepped forward with accommodation for those affected. His fleet of six empty narrowboats is available to displaced residents during the festive period. "I felt that we could just offer those empty boats to the people that need accommodation especially over the Christmas period," Mr Ray added. The generosity has extended beyond practical assistance, with a crowdfunding campaign established to help families who lost their homes, clothing and personal possessions. Donations have now surpassed £57,000.

We all say that - I'm on my 18th boat. You'll find that as your experience grows the boat will become more of an irritant (for a variety of reasons) and you'll eventally have to scratch the itch.

It is things like this make boating less than pleasurable - things do break and need replacing but you can soon tell which boats are built by people with boat knowledge and those who are just 'fabricators'. Add this to you check list for when you buy your next boat.

Now the boat has been winched upt to the bridge you can see how close the breech is to the lift bridge - it is about 1.3 boat lengths. The 'arm' is just the other side of the bridge, off to the left.

But Delaney doesn't appear to be employed by C&RT

If this is the boat from where you intend to conduct your business (as per your other thread) then the licencing may not be as simple as the above answers suggest. On C&RT waters, for example, you will need commercial insurance, a commercial Safety certificate (as you have paying customers coming aboard) and a commercial boat licence. I do not know what requirements for 'commercial operations' licencing the other navigation authorities will have. If you are intending to operate the business from within a marina, you will need to check if they allow business to be run from the boat - many do not ! (car parking issues, 'strangers' wandering around the marina etc etc)

Which, if you read it more carefully you would have seen that it was for Scotland, and is enschrined in law. Failing to comply, and meet your legal obligations, would give the insurers the 'wriggle room' to (potentially) not pay out.

I'm pretty sure I quoted from the BSS web pages where they say that the MAIB have reported boater being affected by CO from adjacent boats.

Wasn't he a good friend of Val Doonican ?

What a great Christmas present to yourself enjoy.

I think you may be refering to the 1971 act where if BW (now C&RT) do not have the funds to maintain a certain canal it can be closed or sold off or given away. Research needed ! Or, maybe you are refering to the clause in the consitution of C&RT where if the go bankrupt the Government can take back the canals id give then to another charity with similar aims 12 DISSOLUTION 12.1 Subject to obtaining the prior written consent of the Settlor, the Trustee may at any time decide by resolution that this Settlement is to be dissolved. The Trustee will then be responsible for the orderly winding up of this Settlement's affairs. 12.2 After making provision for all outstanding liabilities of this Settlement, the Trustee must apply the remaining property and funds in one or more of the following ways: (1) by transfer to one or more other bodies established for exclusively charitable purposes within, the same as or similar to the Objects provided that the Infrastructure Property continues to be held non-expendably for the Objects; (2) directly for the Objects or charitable purposes within or similar to the Objects; or (3) in such other manner consistent with charitable status as the Settlor and the Commission shall approve in writing in advance. 12.3 A final report and statement of account relating to this Settlement must be sent to the Settlor and the Commission. It should also be noted that C&RT are required to have insurance .......... "to insure the property subject to this Settlement against any foreseeable risk and take out such other insurance policies as may be required"

So you are saying that the laws of negligence can only be enforced if you can afford to pay the fines ? If you recognise that something is a bit 'iffy' and rope it off, but do nothing about remedial work for 2 (or more) years, then someone is hurt/killed that must surely be negligence ? Negligence (Lat. negligentia)[1] is a failure to exercise appropriate care expected to be exercised in similar circumstances.[2] Within the scope of tort law, negligence pertains to harm caused by the violation of a duty of care through a negligent act or failure to act.