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  1. Why not ask to have your boat craned out and put on hardstanding? Then it wouldn't matter if it was an NAA agreement or not, as it need not be licensed
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  2. With the weather picking up, the sun shining and the lovely daffodils coming through i have been taking stock of the last six months... Moved onto Vidar late August 2015, was a lot quicker than i had planned due to marriage break up, i recall sitting there the first night, feeling of walls closing in on me, a little lonely, not really sure what i was going to do, how it was going to work out. 6 months later i have made good work on bringing the boat more in line with my living requirements, new kitchen almost finished, everything i need to live properly, washing machine, full size cooker, fridge freezer, warmth!! ... I have learnt so much, but.. i have so much more to learn and i cant wait, i have made mistakes, got stuck, hit other boats, lost things into the wet stuff and i am sure this will continue, biggest lesson learnt is check for stoppages, going down the Atherstone flight two weeks ago to get told lock 11 is closed was not a good moment, having to reverse back up to lock 7 was interesting to say the least! I read the forums most days, i dont say much, but i do pick up information, i try to ignore the haters and the squabbling as for me its all about enjoying life and standing on the back of the boat with a beer/ mug of tea and enjoying what is around me. So anyone who reads this who is thinking of buying a boat, do it, you only have one life and its not that long really.... Photo of the first daff in the marina last night. Bring on summer!
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  3. Hmmm perhaps with the application of super-science cleverness they could have been ground off first, then reapplied later? Or is that too clever? Anyway does one normally over-plate well above the waterline where most of the embellishments are? And does all that rule out over plating a boat built 80 years ago when they were too mean to stick it together properly and just spot riveted it together with gunge in between to stop it sinking?
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  4. Can you provide a shred of evidence that CRT have ever put up signs referring to the £25 or tried to charge for overstays at Three Locks. My belief is there have never been signs, nor have they tried to levy charges. You are not the first to suggest this, of course, but I doubt you will be able to provide the evidence any better than anybody who has been challenged on the point in the past
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  5. Sounds like the non-return valve in the pump maybe allowing the pressure to reduce by blowing back into the tank just a tad. Having reduced the pressure in the accumulator, it is now working properly and storing a bit of water. They are usually supplied a little over pressure, so that the fitter can bleed a bit off to get it down to suit whatever pump has been fitted. The pump may also run overnight because the cooling water in the calorifier contracts and draws a bit more from the inlet, eventually using up all that was in the accumulator and tripping the pump into running. If there's an expansion vessel on the calorifier, this supplies a bit more water to compensate as well.
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  6. Someone did say it was April 1st but not sure if they were taking the P
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  7. Oh no how will I manage not knowing what is happening every six months.
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  8. A process seen many times on the canal. The other one is paint it with grey primer, leave it until its rusty, then sell the boat to someone else.
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  9. Reported for not slagging C&TR off.
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  10. That's useful to see To answer the OP's original question, then (and by all means correct my sums if I've missed something):- For a 4kw diesel heater you're looking at around 400ml per hour. Diesel round here has been 58p per litre recently so that's 29p per hour cost to the OP for heating his boat just with the Webasto. Over the 12 hours duration suggested (although I wouldn't like 12 hours a day without heating) that's a total cost of £3.48 per day. If you want heating 24 hours a day you're looking at up to £6.96 depending on how well your boat holds the heat A 25kg bag of coal varies according to brand but let's say it's £11 as that's the figure the OP suggests. In bitterly cold weather I use a maximum of 2.5 bags a week if I'm home all the time. So that's £33 a week or £4.71 per day. Plus the added bonus of having the heating on 24 hours a day at full pelt if you want with coal, not just 12 hours. Plus the Brucie bonus of being able to burn free found firewood for absolutely nothing. Even an expensive posh coal wins hands down over running a Webasto as your only form of heating, in terms of value for money. And we've not even started to look at servicing costs. Fumes from a stove chimney can be hardly better or worse for you than fumes from a diesel exhaust. And neither should find their way inside the boat. Edited to add: The Webasto cost obviously doesn't include the price of diesel spent running the engine to replace the electricity it uses. If like my Eber it needs a high voltage that needs to be factored in especially when your batteries are a couple of years old and you've been watching tele all evening My Eber is 4kw and it's nowhere near enough to be the sole heating source for my 65ft boat. At best it takes the chill off first thing in the morning or if I'm away before I get the stove up to temperature for some proper heating
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  11. And if the locks are still shut tell em to shove it anyway.
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  12. That's a good start! When we started boating there were few CCers and some CMers. I suspect many of them tries to take care / be careful of their immediate environment and managed 'whatever' accordingly. When they moved their pitch, they tidied up and you wouldn't know they'd been there (apart from some worn patches. The pressure on living costs have forced some folks to take to the water just to find anywhere to live. Most don't have any clue about living on a boat or anywhere that there aren't any services - or what to do when there aren't. Current mores are @me, me, me and *** Authority - sometimes that's quite understandable, but it's still antisocial. The result is that we won't cruise to London anymore. On the Oxford canal - our local - many / most of the space immediately below / above a lock is taken up by residents - in some cases a boat is left on an easy mooring, unoccupied, until the owner comes back 'next month' to carry on boating. It's common for the lead boat to moor up tight to the rear lock landing bollard. That makes it more of a challenge to work the lock. In time this will put off hirers and other boaters using the canal system. So there's a risk of less boats cruising - which creates a visual pleasure for walkers, fishermen. and others. CaRT with its charitable status needs to attract the public's use to the system in order to justify its grant. If the system becomes a stinking empty ditch. So for a start CaRT need to keep the system flowing and used by boats moving around. An early step is to stop folks abusing the rules.
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  13. I'd have a moan too Mike, but if they're compliant, then it's ok. The good side is that there's no-one on board, so they're quiet. Much better than a load of barking dogs, late night engine running and the screaming hideous families from hell with unruly kids. I KNOW I'm going to go to hell myself, for views like these, but I don't care. I've been moored next to similar and been very quick to move on. So there.
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  14. Well, it isn't aimed at me. I know I can't CC, so I've always had a home mooring. They don't have to cost you an arm and a leg in a marina, any more than someone in a house doesn't have to live in London and pay for a house there. You can move somewhere else, have a nice life, and pay less. as the Stones so wisely said, you can't always get what you want, but you can get what you need. And you're in a sodding boat, for gods sake - they sort of move - that's one of the points of them. And the logging system is fine - it just does what it says it does. It never claims to record every boat, every day, and doesn't need to. Mistakes can be put right if the people concerned can be bothered to do so rather then just say they know their rights, they don't have to prove anything to anyone, take me to court if you want - and then moan when the courts rule against them for no rational reason, because that's what courts do sometimes. Otherwise, no reason for genuine CCers, uncontacted by CRT, to feel stressed. Why should they? I'm not sure who you think is being divided. I'm all in favour of CCers, and home moorers with online moorings, and people in marinas. I've never, ever met anyone who isn't.
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  15. Witchy, Looking at your posts and your situation in the round, if I were you I'd just flippin' buy the boat. Boating involves risk. All this hand-wringing and stressing about blacking and pitting etc looks to me as though it is stressing you through the roof. Take a chance. Just buy it and deal with any problems later, if and when they crop up, which they probably won't. The bigger picture seems to be that you badly need a new home, and living on DREAMS is the obvious answer. That thing about gift horses springs to mind. Once you are on board everything will be lovely Years will slip past before any of the theoretical disasters people here warn against come to pass, if ever. Take a chance, you've loaded the dice in your favour with your impressive research and the level of understanding you've achieved already. Go for it and get on with your new life. It will work out fine, (almost) certainly. 'Tis easy for peeps on here to list out endless downsides, they have nothing to lose. You have your imminent step into your new future life to lose if you back out now. Just go for it. You're brave and resourceful enough to deal with anything that crops up. Just my opinion here and now.
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