Paul C

I hope your I hope your batteries are actually in parallel, not series.

Would you need to teach the dog quite detailed instructions for tasks, or is she intelligent enough to work out how to do things from first principles. If the latter, give her the job of reversing the boat, and provide her with underwater diagrams of prop/rudder arrangement, hull shape, control logic on the gear/throttle etc.

I'm assuming from the pics you're planning on fitting 1 circuit breaker to protect the whole lot, and a 12 fuse fusebox for various circuits. These days I'd go for a panel with lots of individual circuit breakers for each circuit, that way its easy to reset rather than hunting around for the right size spare fuse, if/when something blows. Particularly if you're at the install/testing stage of a bunch of other wiring and electrical work.

Big difference between towpath and non-towpath side. Occasionally in our travels we've come across private moorings which ARE on towpath-side for an adjacent house, but they're super rare.

Its a simple "yes".

Could deflate it and put it in the boot of the car?

The Virtual Pub subforum is hidden until 10 posts are made, or something like that.

The 170 boats Alan referenced in his post (above mine).

Alan, being unlicensed is just a step in the process for most: Non-compliant CCing --> CRT doesn't renew licence --> Boat is unlicensed --> Section 8 proceedings are used to remove from CRT waters In some cases, the boater resists at step 4. I don't believe there has been any case where at step 2, the boater has used a judicial review to argue that the non-renewal of the licence is unreasonable.

A ferry has a home mooring. In any case, the only ferry I can think of has 3 stops........

The law is vaguely written, I believe deliberately, to allow for a variety of cruising styles. While there is a requirement to move from place to place (refer to Act for exact wording) every 14 days, there is also a requirement that the boat is used for navigation throughout the licence period. A narrow interpretation might be that one can engage only in navigation-related activities, for example it would be reasonable to stop for a day or two to service the engine, or attend to another maintenance task. It might also be reasonable that alongside the navigation, the boat is slept in overnight, thus necessitating the replenishment of supplies etc thus a stop for (say) a week in a town. A wider interpretation might be that the "place to place" in 14 days means that boating only need occur once every ~14 days, and the other time the licence holder is free to do whatever they wish, be that return home, work, have kids attend school, etc. Since CRT so far concentrate on the movement 14 days aspect, rather than the navigating throughout aspect, it is clear that so far they have focused on the wider interpretation. Also while we're here, since "cruising" is a synonym for "navigating", and the licence requires it "throughout" (of which "continuous" is a fair equivalent term), the slang term "continuous cruising" is reasonable.

Maintenance free = unmaintainable You may as well get flooded lead-acid batteries, at least if there is a later issue you have a hope of fixing them/topping them up instead of having to bin them and get new ones. Just be sure the terminals are the right orientation and/or you can reach of modify the connections.

A boater would also be insured.

It would be whoever is negligent.

Liable for what? You can't replace a child. It would be whoever was negligent.