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Assuming you want to win an auction where you suspect there will be a lot of demand and it will go for a high price, you can pretty much guarantee yourself to get it at the reserve or just over as long as you are the first bidder or early on outbid someone else at a low price- and have no moral scruples. 1. Log in/register on the auction site with your real details, the ones you ultimately want to take the mooring under. 2. Place your bid, at the reserve price or lowest possible price. you are now the only, or high bidder. 3. Register on the site with a load of totally different and false details that you never intend to honour. 4. Make a ridiculously high bid under this fake I.D. number one, one that no genuine bidder would consider matching. 5. Register on the site again, with a second load of totally different and false details that you never intend to honour. 6. Make another ridiculously high bid under this fake I.D. number two, that just tops your fake bid number one. This is necessary, as otherwise your fake bid number one will only be counted as one degree over your genuine bid, and an unrelated and genuine bidder might come in and bid higher than your genuine bid, topping your genuine bid in the cascading list of bidders. 7. No one else genuine will bid now, as the mooring is so overpriced and they will have to pledge an unrealistically high price to top your two fake bids. 8. Auction ends: Fake bid I.D. two defaults, and CRT can do nothing as all of their details were false. 9. A couple of weeks pass, then CRT offers the mooring to Fake bid I.D. number one, which is in no way bound to take it as they were not the high bidder (meaning you can retain that fake I.D. with CRT in good standing in case you need to use it again- but it doesn't matter anyway as it is fake, and CRT can do nothing...) and so rejects the offer to take the mooring. 10. Next bidder down is your genuine bid, at the reserve or bottom price. CRT offer the mooring to you (as it says in their auction guidelines, they will keep going down the bidder list if high bidders default until someone takes it prior to relisting it) and you take it, paying the minimum amount possible for it and having locked out all of the other potential genuine bidders from having a chance at it. This is of course completely skanky and morally bankrupt, but I suspect it is rife on the site.

You lost the job as a temp typist, then?

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this thread supposed to be about the ACC forum, and the eloquant Pilly whinging because he couldn't get access to a member's area before he paid to be a member ( of a group he seems to have no connection or viable interest in) But it has degenerated into an infantile onslaught, grow up folks

bow thrusters on a narrowboat are known to those in the know as "fish mincers" generally as thats all there use is...most of the time they are fitted to ladies boats along with pump out loo's inverters and smart gauges....also availible for men with no facial growth and office workers arms..

They must surely know- how could they not? They are the ones that set it up knowing that any Joe Bloggs and his imaginary friend can register with false details! **Expect a Narrowboat World exclusive on this subject in 3... 2... 1... **

We use somewhere between 3 litres and 30 litres an hour. Depends where we are!

If we ever reach the point where we don't have a track to put them on I really hope that there are people and organisations that decided to "waste" money on preserving the vehicles that ran on those lost tracks. Even if they are static exhibits or running on short lengths of "track". The tram museum at Crich springs to mind. As someone who has criticised the "port"/BW/CRT/TWT in the past for failing to care for its exhibits I for one am pleased that it has chosen to use some of its charitable donations (as opposed to "public" money) to do some restoration on one of the collection.

OK, I now have the definitive answer after talking to the owner today. The two rudder stocks are indeed joined, by a horizontal bar that runs just below a raised area at the rear of the deck. This bar can also be operated hydraulically from a forward steering position. There are two engines but one is perfectly adequate for canal cruising - which is a good thing because one of them isn't working at the moment. Any other questions?

Apparently, I'm incapable of turning Cloud 9 without the aid of Mrs. B, who stands in the bow pulling faces and waving her arms like a deranged mime artist.

Touch screen on ipod, big fingers, no glasses. All conspire ti wreck my normally good speaking spelling.

Fair enough - many posters read the label and say 'it's producing 18HP' - Clarkson (idiot) does this all the time on Top Gear You typoed my name too Richard

While my wine is from a wine box but I do intend to have a couple of large expensive armagnnac's later . I'm happy to toast anybody that is prepared to step away from their keyboard and attend meetings with CRT and seek to ensure boating remains available and affordable regardless of the type of boating they do. You can make a difference or make a noise or maybe do both but noise for noises sake is still just noise.

For goodness' sake Martin give it a rest will you Your constant carping criticism is very wearing

This little beauty works brilliantly on all sizes of plastic tube, from 15mm HEP20 to 38mm ABS waste pipe. I've had one for years. And only £3.99 with free delivery!!!!! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/318535A-PVC-Plastic-Nylon-PPR-Vinyl-Ratchet-Pipe-cutter-Economy-Price-42mm-/291064162203?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item43c4c6a79b MtB