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I corrected my post, I recall travel hoist being used on the Hamble, I could be wrong. I was thrown by the term "straddle carrier" which is not used in boat yards. Straddle Carrier is a a collective engineering term for different types of carriers. Pleased to read this, I thought my memory had failed me. Might be a British/North American English distinction?

Who gives a Flying F***? Not even Trading Standards who are supposed to enforce this. There have been no prosecutions of boaters who have broken the rules nor will there ever likely to be.

To be fair, legislation like this makes sense for large multi million pound yachts, commercial craft etc. It does not for canal craft, especially where the compliance test is as much as 20% of the value of the boat. Hell, I know someone who just bought a small butty and it would be 100% the value of that!! not to mention distaste for the nanny state...

I've always known them as Travel Hoists and even have heard the term mentioned in a meeting just the other day.

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If we really have to be pedantic about terminology, the devices commonly used to lift and move boats around marinas have multiple names: In English-speaking marinas around the World, the only term I've ever heard is "Travel Lift" The generic term for the same device is "Straddle Carrier", which might be more familiar to someone relatively new to boating Travel lift and Straddle carrier both have their own Wikipedia pages, useful if someone read the term and were unfamiliar with it I don't recall seeing or hearing the term "Travel hoist" before reading it in your post; Wikipedia can't help me, but Google suggests it's a portable lifting device for people with limited mobility.

Narrowboating needs do not feature in coastal marina either but a marina pontoon like that would be unacceptable. Big fenders pop out of position during maneuvering mishaps and would leave a hull exposed to those poll ends. I am surprised any boater present or past would offer a defense of the pontoon in that photo.

This is from the RCD technical section (The RSG) 3. CONFORMITY OF THE PRODUCT Article 14: Presumption of conformity Products which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union shall be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements covered by those standards or parts thereof, set out in Article 4(1) and Annex I. And : 4. CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT Article 19: Applicable conformity assessment procedures. The Recreational Craft Directive establishes procedures applying to the assessment of compliance with the Essential requirements. These procedures comply with Council Decision No Decision n. 768/2008/EC concerning the modules for the various phases of the conformity assessment procedures and the rules for the affixing of the CE conformity marking, which are intended to be used in the technical harmonization Directives.It is to be noted, amongst other points, from this Council Decision (in Annex), that: 1. The essential objective of a conformity assessment procedure is to enable the public authorities to ensure that products placed on the market conform to the requirements as expressed in the provisions of the Directives, in particular with regard to the health and safety of users and consumers, 2. Conformity assessment can be subdivided into modules, which relate to the design phase of products and to their production phase, 3.As a general rule a product must be subject to both phases before being able to be placed on the market if the results are positive. Notified bodies should be encouraged to apply the modules without unnecessary burden for the economic operators. The Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, must ensure that close cooperation is organized between the Notified Bodies in order to ensure consistent technical application of the modules, 4. Whenever Directives provide the Manufacturer with the possibility of using modules based on quality assurance techniques, the Manufacturer must also be able to have recourse to a combination of modules not using quality assurance, and vice versa, except where the compliance with the requirements laid down by the Directives requires the exclusive application of a certain procedure. 5. Whenever the NB subcontracts testing or verifies subcontracted testing, etc., it is the responsibility of the NB to ensure that the subcontractor has the facilities and meets the criteria for that function (Annex XIV). As written in the directive for module B, "applicants shall include a written application that they have not lodged an application with any other notified body". This declaration should be extended by a declaration that they have terminated any existing application with another NB for the same product and the same assessment module.

Maybe people living with a long term health condition are simply unaware that Universal Credit will pay for the CC licence whatever the cost up to the local housing allowance. So in fact nobody is going to be put in a difficult position by increased licence costs unless they are trying to do something like having a house (rented out) as well as a Boat. For example if someone was renting their house out for £1,000 a month and using the income to live on the Boat then a big increase in licence cost could force them to choose. The Boat is not in fact the home in this situation so go back to the land. In these circumstances the CRT is effectively paying someone's mortgage by making living on the towpath so cheap. If you have no income and savings/investments below £16k plus are a UK citizen you are eligible for UC. My older sister gets UC and she owns her own house! The cost of residential licenses for people using CRT property does need to go up otherwise the canal is going to fill up and the outcome will be a very large bill for the CRT as people age and find they have no alternatives. Its no good encouraging people to move to the water because it is cheap. That is the wrong thing to be happening and is doing a disservice for the people who are moving because they will find themselves in unsatisfactory accommodation. Also the CRT need more money.

Or wrong shaped ferrule for the hole. Ferrules are quite thin and should deform a bit when clamped in a terminal to produce a snug durable fit. Maybe the OP should buy a screw driver with a torque setting. And yes people in the building trade now spit before saying MK, such is the diminished reputation of the brand.

Agreed. Ideally new members ie those with less than 'n' posts should encounter pinned posts early and old members, who have seen everything before, should not have to navigate past them.

Not so. Where do you consider this requirement lies? Not so. It is a rebuttable presumption. And, anyway, who decides without an inspection that the ISO has been met? This quote is not from the RCR/RCD

Three railway sleeper blocks of height is enough for a surveyor to get under the hull to look and take readings with his gadgets. There is a perverse conundrum when buying narrowboats, the cheaper the boat the more likely it is to have serious hull problem and need a thorough survey. During my boat buying travels I met someone who purchased a £120k boat without a survey. It was a fabulous boat and the risk was rational because of the boat's reputation and the buyer's personal net worth. Conversely someone with £35k in the bank shopping for a £30k narrowboat must get a hull survey because a nasty surprise that necessitates a £10k over plate job for insurance cover will render the boat unaffordable and result in a distressed sale. Let's not confuse newbee boat buyers with the wrong terminology. A boat specific "straddle carrier" is known as a "travel lift".

looking back it was years ago

I disagree. I think we need more pinned threads, not fewer. Then we wouldn't have so many repeated topics and some of our more aggressive forum members wouldn't need to get so frustrated and harangue newbies for not searching in the archives.

Could be a can of worms 😁

I quietly edited out an entry that Marconi, before he invented "wireless", ran a successful chain of ice cream parlours...

I should have put a smiley face after the engineer comment. Will have to clock off now as my domestic engineer (wife) has my bacon and eggs ready 🥓😁

Anyone with any sense knows that Wikipedia is useful but not infallible - I have been a Wikipedia editor and, with increased time available I may become one again. A wiki is a website or database that is compiled collaboratively. Often a strength but sometimes a weakness - it is the best knowledge available to the community that created it, but that knowledge isn't perfect, and mistakes can be made and even mischievous ideas can come about. There would be nothing to stop me creating a Wikipedia page on the Rodden Farm Cider Barges, and it would only get weeded out if another editor knew it was wrong and cared enough to do something about it. Wikipedia is very useful as a guide or a ready reference - I often use it as a starting point or to check a detail that I already know but can't quite remember. All that said, I would concur over the French prisoners of War, and the suggestion is made rather too often - these claims can't all be true

What made you imagine someone putting some decking over scaffold poles would be an engineer? It's just a DIY job that wasn't finished. Perhaps whoever did it didn't own an angle grinder. Your friend managed to find the only mooring at Staines that wasn't suitable for his boat. I used to moor on the other side of the river, sometimes overnight down by the riverside pub/restaurant by the railway bridge. But I always had a couple of tyres on rope attached to those handrail hooks.

And a lot more water to boat on atm. The muddy ditches are just that atm in places. Not much chance of getting back to our mooring for the second year running 😕 but I'm not worried I'm still able to go boating 😁