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The answer is still NO. You can request, you can beg, cajole or even threaten, say its all bullshine, make inuendo - I don't care. I know my idea(s) would bring a considerable income in & I don't need your approval or agreement.

Isn't Eturia one of the 6 towns that make up Stoke on Trent

Such as? Realistic and costed ones please, not concepts viewed through rose-tinted spectacles... 😉 I suppose it's theoretically possible that you've got a load of brilliant ideas that neither anyone in CART or the consultants they paid to advise them on fundraising could come up with, but it seems unlikely -- apart from anything else, with that level of financial acumen I'd expect you to be a billionaire by now... 🙂

Indeed, it was simply to show the level of investigation they went into when deciding which remainder canals to retain, to dispose of or upgrade to Cruising canal. Two committees (North & South) were set up to review, and they considered everything from the legal costs if a canal was closed but a bridge or lock was left in existence and someone fell, to what responsibility they would retain for (say) a bridge that was an access bridge and couldn't be removed, responsibility for flooding if the canal was unable to take surface water, etc etc.

Delicious beer, we tried quite a few of them (with pork pies for lunch, obviously) -- and a lovely pub for getting wedged in too... 🙂

I undestand. Those are for the "standard posts" which are smooth and unthreaded. To avoid them and use cables with ring terminals I need a battery with threaded posts, or am I missing an alternative? Sorry Tracy,which connectors are you referring to? Some kind of adapter from standard to threaded posts? Thanks These? https://www.amazon.co.uk/QAQGEAR-Terminal-Compatible-243407F000-243407F001/dp/B09HGM7755/ref=asc_df_B09HGM7755/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=641694953744&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17341636290188347663&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046035&hvtargid=pla-1719653223826&psc=1&mcid=16818ffc281c3b4aae07173f68977dec

Are you sure the solar is configured to charge the engine battery, most are not, so with long periods of no engine running or only running the engine for short periods would be likely to result in a flat engine battery. On April 4th I explained how to do a simple voltmeter check to see if the engine battery is being charged by the engine. Have you done this? You can do similar with solar charging. Cover the panels so they stop working, connect a voltmeter across the battery, and note the reading. uncover the panels and the reading should jump up.

No, I was merely pointing out basic truth. Not only good prices, but good beer too.

Could you please give a bit more info, as it will be interesting to hear your experience as you may benefit others. Are you now trying to sell the boat and are having RCD/paperwork issues? The RCD was tightened up in 2017 did you buy the Sailaway after then? Have a look at this link, may help. https://www.thefitoutpontoon.co.uk/boat-certification/rcd-update-2017/

Total funding for the Rochdale was £24 million or thereabouts, around half from the Millenium Commission, the rest from EP and local authorities. (Remember when local authorities had money?) I think the HNC was of the order of £30 million From which you have to remove those that aren't navigable, or are now cruiseway, or in some cases no longer belong to BW/CRT! (St Helens for example) Edited to add - I will do that at some ppoint but don't have time at the moment

"(d) a new obligation imposed on the Board to deal with all waterways not in the category either of Commercial or Cruising waterways, i.e. the remainder (termed for the sake of convenience the ‘Remainder waterways”) in the most economical manner e.g. either retention, elimination or disposal, as most appropriate. (e) local and certain other statutory and charitable authorities were given powers to enter into agreements with the Board for maintaining or taking over any Remainder waterways or parts thereof and to assume full responsibility or (in the case of local authorities) for making financial contributions towards the cost of maintenance in inland waterways". "3.6.3. On the other hand the Board has certainly acquired or assumed obligations in the course of years from which it would now be extremely difficult, if not impracticable, to get free. Before deciding — in the case of a Remainder waterway, for example — that it could be closed or eliminated, consideration needs to be given in each case to the nature and extent of the obligations involved. These questions are reviewed in Chapter 15." Section 15 of the Fraenkel Report (20 pages) Reviews the staus of the remainder waterways, costs of maintaing them vs costs of closing them etc etc etc and is a 'good read'. The first of the 1974 reports was limited to 234 navigable kilometres and strongly recommenced that they be upgraded to the Cruising category, For the first group maintenance agreements bad already bean concluced:- Ashton and lower Peak Forest Canal (22.5 km, agreement pending), eyewash Canal (17 km), Grand Union Canal, Slough Arm (9 km), Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal (52 Km), Caldon Canal (28 km). The second group lacked agreamendt: - Birmingham Canal Navigations (82 km), being priorities 1, 2, 3.1 and 3.2 of the 1970 Working Party report, see paragraph 15.5.3), Grand Union Canal, Welford Arm (3km), Kennet & Avon Canal (9 km), Hamstead Locj to Hungerferd), The Board was unable to support the Council's recommendations for the second group “owing to thelr limited liabitity”. The summary shows a table of the costs. No miracles involved , just an outsider looking in with an open mind and identifying alternative sources of income from existing resources.

So the thorny subject of RCDs. Have members had experience of retrospective issue of RCD on a sailaway craft please. Apparently the original belief on my part that a craft owned (from new) for more than 5 years is not now necessarily applicable. The bureaucrats are on the case with their red tape and interference!!

no continous moorers preventing you mooring at Etruria?

Price list from the Holy Inadequate last week... 😉

Thank you for comments. Installed new battery and all OK. However old battery having recharged at home is holding charge so have contacted local electrician requesting he makes contact to explore problem.

Not much of the network then, and as you say even less of the expensive-to-maintain-lock-heavy bits -- (most of) the BCN is the only exception. Do you know roughly how big the EP and Millennium grants were for the Rochdale and HNC, which it seems would have to be paid back (about 70% but more probably 120% with interest) if they were closed? Probably -- but it doesn't make your earlier claim about how you could miraculously improve CART's finances any more credible, which is what was being commented on... 😉

If this is a Nurser can, as you say, it may have some historical value may it not? If so, better that I do not touch it but leave it to experts.

10 surely 🙂