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  2. Well that answered my question! Carrie~Lou won't be stretched - at least not in the near future and certainly not by us. Subject to survey she will be under new ownership very soon with a lovely couple who have hired boats loads of time but want their own boat. I hope they will have as many happy times in her as we have had. Now we just have to get boatyards, surveyors and planets aligned for both them and us to progress with our boat buying plans Exciting times
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  5. Ooh, that's an interesting take on doing reviews! Could you buy lots of other things and tell us you haven't used them?
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  6. I am inclined to doubt this. Everything Socrates wrote was Greek to me.
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  7. We settled that one centuries ago. There is a very good reason the Tudor Rose has more red petals than white petals ...
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  8. When I sold my boat I provided a paper trail including original invoice, insurance docs, EA registration invoices for all extras bought for the boat and work done, all bearing my name this backed up by proof of ID by way of passport, driving licence etc etc. Fairly positive proof I thought Phil
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  19. but it also affects those in the west trying to escape to superior locations
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  25. I would like to say avery big thank you to all that have given me the benefit of their experience in relation to my dilema. I may need to rethink my dream of cruising the waterways in the short term, (And to those who queried it I do mean cruising in the true sense). But hopefully it wont be too long before I get out there and get to meet some of you in person. Happy cruising to you all. Pengie
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  26. Socrates was tried for and found guilty of corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, so all the things he was complaining about were clearly his fault! Jen ?
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  27. I would prefer anti clockwise as that means you are coming down both Ashton and the Rochdale nine. You go up the Cheshire locks and Bosley but they are both easy flights. Haggis
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  28. Dust the stick with talc or chalk, up to the lower mark without screwing it in will be the upper mark when screwed home.
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  31. not a valid w3w location - I understand they were quite careful not to have offensive combinations when they set it up. I do like https://what3words.com/stored.voter.riots though!
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  35. Apparently the source is a little more recent that that : Quote Investigator: The quote is so entertaining and it fills its niche so well that it is cited repeatedly around the globe. Over the decades the quotation or a close variant has appeared in newspapers such as: Oakland Tribune of California in 1922; The Bee of Danville, Virginia in 1946; Winnipeg Free Press of Manitoba, Canada in 1976; The Sunday Herald of Chicago, Illinois in 1982; the Sun-Herald of Sydney, Australia in 2005; and the Taipei Times of Taiwan in 2008 [SOC1-SOC6]. The words are usually attributed to Socrates and the confusion with Plato is understandable because Plato’s dialogues are the primary source of knowledge concerning Socrates. QI has determined that the author of the quote is not someone famous or ancient. It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. The words he used were later slightly altered to yield the modern version. In fact, more than one section of his thesis has been excerpted and then attributed classical luminaries.
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  36. If we all followed our advice none of us would have boats.
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  37. We have an engine room and back cabin, the engine room is great for drying coats etc. and also for storing all things engine related along with brushes, mops bucket and so on, so a good use of room, the engine is also a good radiator after it has been running all day, if it's too hot we just leave the engine room doors open. You also see the engine all the time so keep it clean, and notice any pipes or covers working loose before they cause problems, and they are easier to work on. The children took over the back cabin, one in the cross bed and one in the side bed, the table cupboard housing toys etc, it has become their little house. All in all a great move from a boat with a cruiser stern.
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  39. Our local Butchers 'do liver'
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  42. Successful boating in a post climate change world, part 2. Going to the shops:
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  45. 6400 NATO mils in 360 degrees. " one banana subtends one mil at 1000 bananas", as my gunnery instructor put it .
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  46. Made it through Bardney lock. Took four people to open the bottom gate against the water coming over the top gates. River back below the bank at the moorings. MP.
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  47. To be able to get off the boat to visit them ?
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  48. Hi Pengie, welcome to the forum! You didn't mention the price or size of the boat in question. Everything has a price at which it would be worth it. Have you been looking for boats and found this one? Or did you see a too-good-to-be-true price and start dreaming? There are a number of things you mentioned there that would be an absolute dealbreaker for me. The hull sounds like it is in very poor condition. A survey from 2 years ago cannot be relied on and I'd strongly recommend getting one for a boat in this state. If it has needed overplating in some areas it's quite possible that other areas have also since deteriorated. A boat sitting for sale for 2 years won't have been maintained properly. And fibreglass top, yuck. "No insulation" sounds dubious, not sure how that's possible if the interior is livable. If you really don't have insulation this boat is going to be unbearable in both the cold of winter and the heat of summer. Insulating it is going to involve redoing the interior entirely. This is a very major hassle and expense. Yes, I think that you will need to spend a great deal of money on this boat to complete the project, and moreover, you're going to need to do a lot of work. This is going to be particularly difficult given the fact that you want to continuous cruise and you aren't going to have a home base for deliveries and working on her. Finally on continuous cruising, as @TheBiscuits said your plan to do the bare minimum every two weeks MIGHT be within the letter of the rules but is not considered within the spirit of it. The letter of the rules is actually not fully explained - it's more than just cruising every two weeks. I am told there are a myriad other factors that CaRT will look into when deciding whether to renew your license, such as the distance traveled, the pattern (did you move the minimum distance for three months and then go on a long cruise? This is not "continuous" enough), the number of times you overstayed (because of poor weather etc), if you had any complaints against you. If you move your boat a mile every two weeks for a year, I am pretty sure that they will have something to say about it. And yes, to answer your question, your movement every two weeks is monitored strictly. But the spirit of the community is more important than the literal rules. Keep in mind that the canals are rather crowded in places. Continuous cruisers are using visitors moorings because they are visiting places. If your boat is in a mooring, that means that someone else can't moor there who is genuinely visiting the spot. It is seen as uncool to try to get away with the minimum amount of cruising possible. I'm not trying to put you off or telling you not to do it, I'm just letting you know because you might not be aware that you could encounter a good deal of vitriol from the boating community if you carry out this plan. We're liveaboard CCers and we've certainly been on the receiving end of this vitriol, owing to our we-also-work-a-9-to-5-job cruising pattern (we certainly haven't done 400 miles and 400 locks this year... yet!). What you're proposing is substantially less cruising than what we are doing. You should just be aware that your plan is going to be seen by other boaters as selfish. Consider renting a home mooring somewhere affordable for when you aren't genuinely cruising.
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  49. Yes. If you are not scared off by the boat, then good luck and we will help as much as we can with advice and suggestions. If you are intending to take the urine from day one, then those of us who get grief from CRT for being genuine continuous cruisers will be quite unfriendly! We have done over 400 miles and 400 locks so far this year. If you want to stay both sides of one bridge every fortnight then stuff you. If you genuinely want to boat then welcome to the community, and we will help you as much as we can.
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  50. Another challenge for @TheBiscuits and @cheshire~rose How many botes can we get to pass the hat back to the bote that we dont know the name of?
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