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bye children .hope you have a good day and the blood pressure does not get to high with your self righteousness

WILL YOU TROLLS STOP HIJACKING MY LOVELY THREAD...LOL

The customer is always right, even when they are wrong. No business is really about making or selling a product. Every business is essentially about satisfying the customer - loose sight of that and you die, and many do!

I am relatively new to this Forum and this may have been raised before. Also, if a moderator thinks this is in the wrong discussion, please feel free to place it more appropriately. After reading something in a recent discussion, I picked up that another member will be travelling near my home base, when our boat will be out until the autumn. After contact by PM, he now has an empty mooring to use for a few days. I began to wonder if this could not be done more widely. I know marina berths will often not be able to be made available under their berthing regulations, but CRT and possibly some private moorings could probably be made available without offending any rules. It would seem unlikely to be seen as sub-letting if no money changes hands. I put this up the flagpole to see if it flies. The simplest way for it to work might be for anyone able to offer their home mooring to others travelling in the area to post their mooring location and size, with relevant dates. Maybe a separate place in the forum would be required for this. Formal permission to use the mooring on particular dates and any other essential information would be dealt with by PM. I'm not suggesting that someone else should just turn up and use it. Daft? Or might it work?

Water stopped for a while but now about toi have to bite that bullet. Inside of boat beginning to look like it used to and the wiring, kitchen and other stuff all sort of on the way now - hopefully out on her in August if I can get the time in. Thanks for those who send the odd (meaining time - not weird of course) email asking. The Phoenix will be hatched soon :-) Vic

That rather knocks on the head the suggestion I have heard multiple times that none of the CRT directors ever get seem at the tiller of a canal boat! ("Proper" boat as well!....) Well done to both Laurence and Co, and to John (Cotswoldman). I have been trying to persuade the manager South East Waterways that walking a few kilometers of the towpath does not get them seeing the same issues as a boater does as he is out there dodging overhanging branches, or bouncing through rubble filled bridge holes. In my view the more of them we can actually get doing this, the better chance they will understand some of what matters to boaters.

It depends on where you are mooring. For anywhere tidal or with strong current the rule of thumb for mooring warps has always been one and a half times the boat length. This allows you enough rope for any eventuality: rafting, springs, and so forth.

Never mind mobile phones, many years ago when I was 18 I drove into the back if a car while being distracted by the vision of an angel in a miniskirt.

I'll keep quiet about running a tunnel light and horn using mains flex then Richard

Ahh both the trolls iin the same room How wonderful

Little green arrow down here.......... >>>>>>>>>>>

You can certainly use reasonable force against someone who's breaking into your boat (if you happen to be there at the time), but I thought your problem was someone stepping on your boat in order to be able to manouvre their boat around yours, so why are you talking about "defending it"? If the owner of any unpowered boat needs to step onto your boat it would be reasonable for them to knock and let you know before they stepped onboard and it wouldn't be reasonable for you to refuse unless you had a very good reason like you'd just painted it and it was still wet. It's certainly not reasonable for anyone to use force in that situation. It sounds to me like you've completely overreacted by trying to defend your boat when it's not actually being attacked.

If I'd known you were up here I'd have bought you a drink! It's called "humour"

This lass has got to be worth a listen, she joins in on Sunday the 30th at the Folly, Napton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Vi4E4eCymG0

The tin I bought in 1976 with the plastic top is still OK but has been "stored in a cool dry place". The one me Mam gave me, with a briliantly designed metal cap, is not good, like solid. That said it was the tin she used to polish the buttons on her RAF uniform when that nice Mr Churchill was advocating combat beach volley ball. I also have a child hood memory of her singing songs from that time as she hung out the washing.The last verse of one went something like:- Some say he died of a feever & others he died of a fit. But we all know what he died of, he died of the smell of the.. Sh.......ine your buttons with Brasso, it's only a Shilling a tin. You can buy it or Knick it from Wollworths but I don't think they got any in.

Any ideas on how to increase the pot? Assume nothing