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No! "No fishing" means not dangling maggots in the canal and drowning them. The instruction is clear and succinct. Who is any one of us to determine why any notice is posted: it isn't always obvious. This endless stream of self-exception by people bleating about their "rights" is starting to get on my proverbials.

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All insurance related, but this has to be resolved before you can buy a licence, and you can not insure the boat until you own it but as soon as you buy it you have to licence it - then add in surveys and BSS and it all gets tricky, especially once you add in a wooden bottom, and then you have do most of it all over again for the motor if it does not already have comprehensive insurance. None of this is unsurmountable but a potential owner is really going to want a butty to go through all of this, and I contacted several insurers and spoke to recommended individuals within those insurance companies. This appears to be a simpler process if the boats are for commercial use as insurers do not understand why a private boat should need to tow. The knock on from this is that if I were to buy a butty but needed to sell in the future then I could be stuck with it, much as the sellers of buttys are finding now. If I remember correctly 30 years ago insurance was optional, but I think we insured both motor and butty third party anyway - and back then third party insurance allowed boats to tow or be towed (or perhaps I did not read the small print)

In that case I think "some" may have misunderstood how to use self-amalgamating tape. It's designed to stick to itself, so you simply take a tight turn around the metal fitting while holding it in place and then begin to stick it to itself. It doesn't need any base coat of insulating tape. I can't help thinking that some people are over-complicating things.

Because the CRT sign that says NO FISHING, also says that you should not walk past boats moored on the towpath. (The ones I have seen images of do... there may be variations). The bottom line with all of the instructions/advice/rules during this pandemic is that it is the equivalent of an honesty box as there are not enough resources to enforce it and policy is to encourage. Even if there were the resources, (The Armed Forces are available), I'd guess that government has decided that tough enforcement would lead to a worse outcome. Thus.... if Welshy wants to fish off the back of his boat, he could go ahead and see what happens. He almost certainly wont be thrown in the slammer. At worst, he might be advised/asked by someone "official", to observe the sign. He might be also be approached by members of the public with similar advice/requests. If I saw him fishing off the back of his boat, not far from a CRT sign saying "No Fishing", I'd think he was a bit of a ********, (insert your own word here).

I'm living on my boat and I can move to the services when I need to. That's no different in practise from moving from water point to water point always in the same direction as far as reducing infection is concerned, but I'm not doing that because the majority of boat owners are banned from moving their boats. It seems fair not to take advantage of my position to do stuff they can't. Similarly most fisherman as locked in their houses and can't fish. Not fishing if you're on a boat would be showing some solidarity with them. MP.

What porpoise would that serve?

Ah yes. Call CRT and ask them for permission to ignore their sign saying no fishing, you mean?

If the world were flat, cats would have knocked everything of the edge by now. ?

It's not realistic ... the gates don't crash open when you ram them at full chat with the lock empty. ... er, a friend told me that ...

Obviously all related as they all have beards.

there is a control panel top left of screen, use the arrows to select the gates or paddles

Article from the DIWE house magazine 'Lock and Quays' dated March 1950:

Now heard from Fox's and they are monitoring the boats. Seems I was left off the email circulation that gave this info

Our boatyard monitor boats on a daily basis and at times of flood more often. It helps that the owner lives on site. The service is what we pay for.

There are large and very clear signs at the entrance to our marina that say 'No Fishing' but people do fish there right next to the sign . Lock approaches that are well signed are also popular fishing spots . Why do people think they are exempt from rules and regulations ?

Yes I do. I’ve been quite worried about you recently...

Sunset on the River Thames, midsummer's eve

Less wooly sheep...

Good grief! We are in the middle of a national crisis and you expected C&RT to respond to you apparently almost immediately at the weekend!!!! Why the need to "scream and shout" at them ? You have repeatedly complained of not getting emails etc from them but you have never acknowledged or replied to the many messages on here telling you how to register to get them . Why?? Folk on here have repeatedly given you advice and asked what questions you want answered as they might be able to help but you ignore these messages. Why?? I think it is time for us to scream and shout at you to stop being such a diva demanding attention and for you to give C&RT some slack in these difficult times for them as well as us. haggis