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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. ?

How did you do so well on the BCN Challenge without knowing that!

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.

You were younger then - you didn't care about the small print...……………….

The Angling Trust has a dedicated page with updates https://joinanglingtrust.net/covid19-individual-anglers/ This is their current advice Latest advice - stop fishing and stay safe We must all do what is required of us by the Government and work together to fight this pandemic. Therefore, until further notice we should all refrain from fishing. This is about saving lives and supporting the NHS. We have been in contact with the Government regarding its view on fishing as a permitted activity and hope to update you all shortly.

If it were too high for cats to jump, then they'd climb up. If it were too high to climb, then you'd be able to see it from anywhere in a flat world, which you can't. I can see cats, I can't see the H&S edge protection fence, therefore the world isn't flat!

I've never had a problem with self-amalgamating tape that's outside breaking down because of UV absorption. On the other hand I have had problems with the adhesive of electrical insulating tape going gooey over time and just becoming a nasty mess. Perhaps you've been using poor quality self-amalgamating tape and I've been using poor quality insulating tape?

Wot's a false angler? One involving i ? (Or j, for electrical engineers). That woud be an imaginary angler. It's not clear to me.

If you don't know what bodges people are capable of, and how it can resut in deaths,I suggest you read this as an example.... https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/56a20e2040f0b667ce00002b/MAIBInvReport_2_2015.pdf

The thing few people realise is the sheer amount of time it takes to actually consider and properly examine/check in full detail, line by line, items in a specification. To properly check every single paragraph in the BSS handbook I reckon would be long hard day's work, so things get skipped. The examiner WILL find him or herself making judgement calls and leaving bits out to either save time or he think he knows what he will see if he clears all the crap out of a cupboard to look for gas pipe joints that shouldn't be there or pulls the cooker out to look behind and look for and actually read the expiry date label on the flexible hose. Certainly this is the way with landlord gas safety inspections. I could spend a whole day in a house doing one truly properly, actually looking up all the standards that are referred to in other standards and reading the instruction books for the various appliances and checking the details of how they are installed. Shall I spend five or ten minutes leafing through the boiler manual looking up the actual clearance requirements for this particula boiler from combustible surfaces? Or shall I just look, see a 50mm space and just assume that's enough? Same for dozens or hundreds of details. The fact is, one ends up making assumptions based on what one has seen so far because there is a pressure to do the examination for usually, not much money.

Less wooly sheep...

Ive got mi tin att on ?

This is it, exactly. With no BSS there would be nothing to stop things like gas installations and diesel (or even petrol) installations being done in garden hose pipe held together with with jubilee clips and pots under the leaking joints for example. Or gas in HEP20, or petrol tanks and gas cylinders inside boats next to the solid fuel stoves. Mains electrical installations in bell wire, the stuff arrogant, ignorant and and over-confident DIYers are so fond of doing. It all needed stopping but of course they went too far, no lives have been saved so far by forcing labels on the fuel filler and gas locker, I'd wager. Or that plastic leak-off pipe thing. I remember discussing the MoT with my father in law when I was young, saying it was a bit invasive. He explained how it was before the MoT came in. His boss for example had taken the bench seat out of his car and stood a nice comfy sofa in its place. Not fixed down in any way. Boss reckoned he could use the brake pedal ok as long as he pulled firmly to the steering wheel when braking. This is the same sort of thing, which the MoT put a stop to. People do really basic dangerous stuff, without a safety scheme to reign them in.