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  1. 6 points
  2. Evesham (on glorious Avon) Saturday morning 7.30 with the need to get underway ASAP. Cassette full, so lugged it across the bridge to the Elsan point at the lock using my iPad to navigate - too early so the access was locked. Walked despondently back past the public toilet next to our mooring in the town. No notice referring to septic tank and in the centre of town - so I reasoned the chemicals should not be an issue. After some soul searching and with infinite care, I slowly emptied the cassette, leaving the facilities as spotless as I had found them. We set off nice and early towards the Severn in perfect weather, munching on tasty fresh Eccles cakes and sipping large mugs of steaming coffee to the sound track of our Kelvin. I'm a well happy bunny...... until...... After an hour my wife could not find my iPad. Slowly the dreadful truth dawned - I'd left it at the pubic loo. One hour later my worst fear was confirmed - no sign of it. Several fruitless calls to the council and police etc before my wife remembered the "Find My iPad" app. It showed up immediately on her iPad about half a mile away - we set of at a brisk walk and after 10 minutes we arrived outside a nice house. The friendly owners were unable to help but suggested we search their garden. Then my wife had her second brainwave of the day - you can make the iPad ring! We could hear it very faintly but difficult to sense the direction. We rummaged under various hedges without success. Crossed the road - it sounded closer. After puzzling for some time we realised the sound was coming from inside a Royal Mail Post Box! Checked Saturday's single collection time - 11.00 and it was now 11.30. Next collection Monday by which time we needed to be in Saul Junction. Another round of fruitless calls - this time to Royal Mail. The nice homeowners stepped in - the wife making my wife a cup of coffee whilst the husband drove me to the post office which was closing imminently. As we arrived there we got a call. Whilst drinking coffee the wives had spotted the Post Office van driving past - he was late on his rounds :-) They hustled over to the Post Box to find a confused postman with my iPad in his hand. He accepted the story was too ridiculous for it to have been fabricated, so he handed It over :-) Really - what are the chances? There were several morals learnt including marking contact details on valuables to increase the chance them being returned. Spare cassette ordered (refresh kit). Unfortunately a brain transplant will not be so easy :-(
    2 points
  3. Where are you being 'slagged off'? Your arguments are being slagged off yes, but that isn't that same as you being slagged off. You seem to be struggling to tell the difference between criticising a poster personally, and critiquing the arguments they put forward.
    2 points
  4. So people are allowed to slag me off but the posts countering their insults are removed. Even-handed moderation, not.
    2 points
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  6. As far as I can see anyone who asks and then follows a refusal by a call to the police has actually demanded, but the difference seems to be lost on you. Being unwilling does not make you a poacher it merely means you have not conformed to the club's T & Cs. They have the right to fish there by virtue of being a club member so no poaching merely a transgression of unreasonable T & Cs
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  8. Well, firstly, 90A charge for 90Ah DoD is pretty much 'standard'. The rule of thumb is that a battery will accept a charge current approximately equal to the discharge depth, just like yours are doing. Secondly, you're again seeing the 'standard' charge curve, where the charge current drops more and more slowly but never reaches zero. That's why the 'best' way to determine when to stop charging is when the charge current hasn't dropped over an hour. Forget what that exact figure may be (1%, 2%, 4% of capacity), just stop when it stops reducing. Tony
    1 point
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  10. Even if there are 14 day moorings above Commandery Lock I wouldn't say it would be that sensible for a long period. You would be better asking at Diglis Basin or even at Lowesmor Basin. Latter is run by ABC.
    1 point
  11. That might be classed as slightly suspicious if you were asked by an official of some sort. Refusing to provide information or licences to a random joe that asks is not suspicious at all.
    1 point
  12. And possibly get the caller in trouble for wasting police time once they realise that the "suspicious behaviour" was fishing...
    1 point
  13. I have a similar mystery switch on my Lister panel which seemed to do nothing. Turned out it switches the dashboard lights on/off.
    1 point
  14. There are two types of bacteria involved in digesting the contents of the holding tank. Aerobic the goes abut its work and does not smell but does need plenty of oxygen and anaerobic that requires no oxygen and makes horrid smells. Traditional blue contain horrible chemicals that kill the bacteria but as the anaerobic ones tend to be stronger so some survive, breed and crate a smell. So the first thing to do is to forget ordinary Blue and look for a biological solution that will encourage the aerobic bacteria. you also need to ensure a supply of fresh air into the tank.This should be done by TWO LARGE bore breathers, one at each end of the tank each having a MINIMUM diameter of (say) 1 inch. Unfortunately few boats meet this criteria unless properly specified from new so compromises need to be made. I fitted another breather into my holding tank when I bought the boat. With dump throughs it will help if you make a box with a 12V brushless computer fan in it and fit it into the breather pipe switched so when one enters the toilet the fan is switched on. This help purge the smell and also tends to draw air into the toilet when you open the flap. It will take several pump-outs and good flushes before all traces of the horrible blue is removed so once you make the decision to go biological expect a few weeks of smells. There are all sorts of products that have been used with reported success; yoghurt, yeast, septic tank treatment, bio-washing powder,commercial products like Odourlos, Biomagic, New Blu Loo Company and many more. The clue is to look for biological on the label. Some also contain enzymes to help the bacteria break down the effluent. It is also important not to use domestic toilet cleaning products that kill the bacteria so that rules out any that contain bleach or biocides. It is reported that Ecover will not. Once you get the aerobic bacteria in charge they will be digesting the paper and solids in a similar way to a sewerage plant.
    1 point
  15. Big bad property developers are being encouraged to build on greenbelt sites. The actions of the '90's travellers were used as an excuse to clamp down on many traditional freedoms - one of the problems then and now being that land that should be available for travellers to stop isn't there - even if they own it. Of course, then it was a legal obligation to make such land available, but it still wasn't (so they couldn't move on even if they wanted to). And so I can sympathise with those who want the same sort of lifestyle afloat without being forced to move unless and until they want to. There really should be a way in any civilised culture of accomodating them (it isn't a huge number, after all), and if the will was there, then there would be.
    1 point
  16. The dipstick only having one mark is most puzzling. It's almost as though someone cut it off at the lower mark leaving just the upper mark. Possibly because the oil level was always so high. Very misguided but possible...
    1 point
  17. You should not go to the lower Wey - too built up and despoiled by suburbia. Leave it to us poor Suvernors. Part 2 soon - why you should avoid the upper Wey.
    1 point
  18. It may well be that CRT had contact details, including an email address at the time the licence was taken out but when they sent an email now (in response to the OP request) it bounced back. Why do folk immediately jump to the conclusion that CRT are being unhelpful instead of thinking there might be an answer. haggis
    1 point
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  20. If you actually read what I said rather than making up your own version. I said "around 200 boats in various stages of enforcement" and if you actually look at the figures you will see that is an under estimate. Obviously some of them had enough sense to increase their movement when they received the first communication but a significant proportion did not. Do not forget this trial was over a year and it provided those boaters who always claim, they do not understand what they need to do to comply, chapter and verse as to exactly what C&RT would accept. Despite that a number refused to comply. This kind of selfishness actually effects boaters who do their best to comply whilst CCing the most, if the trial had succeeded it might have been rolled out over the whole system. As in C&RT's eyes it failed it is back to square 1. Ken
    1 point
  21. Oh, come off it! Moving to another area and changing your children's school happens frequently to families for all sorts of reasons. If this was the only competent school in the country I'm sure it would have made headlines by now! Many people who work in Bath cannot afford to live there but Bath is a stone's throw from Bristol where accommodation to suit all levels of income is available. If living on a boat is not compatible with family needs then, unfortunately that has to be faced by the family. It is a fact of life that we can't all have what we want, we have to make choices, society does not and should not be made to fit in with every individuals whims and fancies. edited to make sense!
    1 point
  22. Yes its strange how people these days aeem to think having children is an automatic passport to favourable or special treatment. I get calls from people with broken boilers suggesting I should give them priority over my other customers because they "have young children". Well no, I give priority to people who are ill or elderly. Young children are actually amongst the most hardy of the humans out there and can wait...!
    1 point
  23. Gutter journalism at it's worst. Hardly. Almost nothing will beat what the Sun did 27yrs ago.
    1 point
  24. I never knew where the parish boundaries were when I used to CC, but I think those blaming CRT for not defining how far one needs to move are just trying to find loopholes in the rules to allow them to carry on not making an effort to move (I'm not including you in this - I was just responding to your parish boundaries question). There are always going to be some practical difficulties in defining exactly how far CCers have to move, but the point is that you just need to move a reasonable distance. Yes, "reasonable" is open to interpretation but if every facet of waterways life has to be fully defined then what an over-regulated lifestyle it will become (if indeed it has not already become). If people truly make the effort to move but it then turns out that their idea of a reasonable distance isn't the same as CRT's I suppose legitimate issues may ensue. However, the irony is that some who say they want a "freer" lifestyle with less regulation are actually helping to produce just the opposite and increase the level of regulation by not complying with the spirit of the regs and and demanding definitions before they will comply. Personally I would rather keep some ambiguity in the regs and therefore at least a small element of freedom.
    1 point
  25. Why should they "grow up"? CaRT are a navigation authority and you seem to want them to become a housing authority. Who is going to pay for these "widenings"? What mooring fees do you expect them to charge? The local full residential rates? How are they going to get Planning permission for these residential moorings? Do you really want the canals becoming linear housing estates?
    1 point
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