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I was quite amused that with all the heavy metal bridges in the area they chose a brick one ...

If you do Facebook there is a video of tribute band Sabbra Cadabra playing on the island.

Is Tommy Iommi Tony's lesser known brother?

It is the riverbed only. Nobody under English law owns the water – it is classified as res publica, belonging to everybody. Apart from and beyond the riverbed ownership - which is not a right, per se, but part and parcel of most non-tidal riverbank ownership - riparian rights are usufructory, such that the right to use of the water attaches to the riverbank owner (ownership of the riverbed, if different, does not carry that right). Any use of the water that does not interfere with the rights of others upstream or downstream is classified as a ‘perfect usufruct’. Some uses may be ‘imperfect’, such as use for irrigation and drainage, where flow can be affected or pollution caused, and in most such cases legislation has created statutory over-rides of the right. Mooring a boat would be a perfect usufruct. Fishing is part of the usufruct; you just have to be careful that you do not cast your line beyond your moiety of the river, because the fish across that line belong to others!

They had a prison named after them around the time of the height of their fame. JP

The older the paint the more likely it is to be real paint...

When in the dry dock the boat will be more level than the stern down attitude when afloat. If you have a drain tap at the bottom of your fuel tank this is a good opportunity to drain some off to check for any water which should flow forwards towards the tap instead of lying at the back of the tank when afloat.

Measure the distance between the baseplate and an easily accessed point above the waterline - that tells you how much you draw and answers a different question posed here recently.

Doh! not having a good day its pearsons i have , but i have had most of them from when VG stores still existed ... but i dont see the point in replacing them as the canals and locks never change and they are still an excellent reference for timescales. Rick

The question being “what waterways?” then even including CaRT there are all those rivers where the ‘RIGHT’ to moor is (usually) unquestioned, as being outwith their discretionary powers. Alan has gone to the trouble of attaching the old BW EoG mooring informative, which, for example, clarifies that where BW do not own the riverbed, they cannot charge for mooring – “the boater does not need to pay BW a mooring fee”. So all you need do is look for river navigations, controlled by CaRT or others. Not that CaRT, for example, have not driven boats off from private river moorings under threat of demanding payment, there is no such thing as a sure thing; one has to be prepared to fight whenever ‘City Hall’ is involved, regardless of the fact that the law is on your side. Then too, as has been covered extensively in previous topics, there are canals whose enabling Acts conferred the right to construct mooring places on private land – affirmed as binding in the 1995 Act, s.20. Again, though, in practice ‘rights’ are only as effective as your determination to fight for them. That applies universally. “At the discretion of CaRT” is accurate, only because CaRT make such a fight – even when they have publicly acknowledged the legal status – necessary. It is only fair to note that they do not always bother.

Cruise log Rick!! Are you turning into a posh git?

The point is, as several have now said, in general there is no RIGHT to moor there, and it is always at the discretion of CaRT.

Our local Notaire does Notary work for us, for free, which is handy. Thanks to the B word, my wife is applying for Irish nationality and on Monday we were at her office (Cabinet), getting documents attested as genuine. I like to think that she does the attesting for free because I am a competent translator.

I'm late to this party because I've been away docking the Ribble. I note the calumny from JonathanA, and the noble defence from The Biscuits. People have obviously described some very bad behaviour from others in historic boats, and there is no excuse for this ; I wonder if it was more memorable because it was historic boats involved? As I recall, the CRT licensing review showed there were about 19,000 modern boats on the system, and only around 200 claiming "historic discount". There are probably more historic boats than that , but they are still much in the minority, and therefore memorable when seen. Truly ghastly behaviour aside, I think there must be more to the animosity towards "historics" that seems to surface regularly on this forum. As has been mentioned, most owners of historic boats are not professional boaters, and don't pretend to be.Most are not any richer than owners of modern boats, which is why they do a great deal of the work of maintenance and restoration themselves. Ex-working boats do tend to handle differently from modern boats.When they are loaded, it can be very differently - taking much longer to stop (If they'll stop at all!) in an emergency, or responding to reverse gear by going sideways. They catch the wind when empty, and a Leeds &Liverpool short boat loaded with 30 tons can't just reverse out of a bridge hole because a narrow boat wants to come through.They do need to stay in the channel (if there is one), and people coming the other way would have an easier time if they slowed down, came close and didn't try to give us such a wide berth that they are boating at full throttle through the trees on the offside, or through the lost coping stones and shopping trollies next to the towpath . Failure to understand these realities can easily lead to the mistaken impression of arrogance and a sense of entitlement. Most owners, I think, have historic boats in the same spirit that people have traction engines (another hobby for the really rich, unless you can do a lot of the work yourself) - and get pleasure from the evident joy people show when they see them. Sadly, some of the animosity expressed here, I suspect, comes from people who wish they had a historic boat themselves, but don't.Obviously the answer is simple; get one - OK they don't come up for sale very often, but there is a steady supply, and you can sell what you've got at the moment while you're waiting. Here's a picture of Ribble looking spruce after her recent docking: Enjoy. Or if you don't, accept a friendly middle finger to show there are no hard feelings.

While this all very interesting ? what has happened to the stuck widebeam? Haggis

Hopefully they don't need to do that. With luck, the powers that be understand that the key to human happiness isn't regulating everything out of existence.

I remember one of my brothers test-driving a Maxi once. He drove it up the hill from the garage and then couldn't engage any gear but reverse. So he reversed it all the way back to the garage and said "No thanks"...

That would be the early cable change. The later one was fine It's one of those cars people love to ridicule, yet it was an excellent workhorse for my father in law. Richard

You are not the first to comment about this on Braunston Marina publicity. I think Tim considers it a tradition and matter of personal honour to ram in as many fonts as possible on all marina posters!!

I know what you mean. It has a taste about it the same as the smell of pigs in the farm yard. Not particularly nice and a reason I don't find locally slaughtered pork from places like TPP as delicious as I want it to be.

No Martyn, you're just strange ? What does it taste like when it doesn't taste like pig? I think you said you hadn't tried the meat from TPP? I wonder what you'd think their chops taste like, they definitely have a stronger flavour, in a very good way. Once they put lamb on the menu shouldn't it be TP&LP? Or just TPLP.

Ecover all the way here. I love the canals. Why would I needlessly do harm to the canal by using nasty poisonous products?

When I first looked at that I thought the airbag had gone off...

Are Braunston marina sure they've used enough different fonts?

Ah, but it does work, better than Radweld. Look how egg sticks to your breakfast plate if left to dry out and harden, can be a devil to scrub off. And if you have a beard and dribble egg on it you will regret it.

thanks rach and tony what a day its been, only just sat down after out shopping for bbg, cool box and pots pans, plates etc etc and boat stickers. got them well cheap three reg numbers and three names for a tenner. three he said incase you make a mistake applying them. I have just been sat in the boat for half hour having a cider, arm bloody throbbing good time and killing but smiling and luvin it, You see got the done the cushions this week finished and last one tonight and fitted the carpet we also got for it today. cant believe it :):):):)

That's correct. I am though on the lowest mooring rate because of my boat size and being on the wharf moorings.If you want land line electric,then the mooring is dearer,and in the marina proper,on pontoons and lockable gate,again more expensive.They also charge for car parking, but Aspley Wharf Marina Huddersfield is for me ideal,I only live ten minutes away,is cheap and is on the junction of the Huddersfield Narrow and Broad canals. One of my favourite days out is up the Narrow a few locks to a nice pub,and back in time for tea. I do get some stick for this as the Narrow is usually only used by boats using the Standedge tunnel. The usual comment is, "what! you go up the Narrow for pleasure?" and when I answer yes,I get,"you're mad"!

Most of em are not even boaters, they live in houses and venture out on occasion thinking they know all about it!! ? In reality as our Biscuity friend states, it takes all kinds. Good and bad boating in equal measure is to be found in all things boat. It realy is a fact though that more private boaters seem up themselves than hirers innitt.

I seem to remember that way back in early BWB days, the only way to officially live aboard a boat was to have a commercial licence and a working boat. Anyone else (including me) was bending the rules.

And what changed in the 1995 act? The basic act dates from 1962 Before we go any further, this is going the way this conversation usually does. In my opinion, the act isn't fit for purpose for today's waterways. It is ambiguous and doesn't reflect modern usage. As far as I can remember, there isn't enough case law based on the act to provide useful interpretation. And what is really needed is a new act of parliament Richard