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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!

Yes. The 'header tank' should be incorporated as a reservoir behind the wheel. (It is on mine) Are you installing a single or dual helm position ? I have the Vetus manual if you need it (send me a PM with your email)

Picking up on the discussion regarding gas hoses I would like to pass on a couple of experiences regarding incidents that I have been involved in investigating (as a marine surveyor investigating insurance claims). I do not intend to get bogged down in specific standards or BSS checking points, simply to highlight a couple of issues that seem to receive scant attention when a boat is inspected for BSS purposes but which have caused serious incidents. 1. Gas hoses and split level hob/oven cookers. Many people have installed these with the hob directly above the oven. Often flexible hoses are used to connect the hob and oven. These hoses should not be used because the units are not regarded as portable, or gimballed. If used the hoses should be accessed for inspection throughout but in my experience often they are not inspected throughout because the hob is screwed down. Often metal braided hoses are used, the braiding being regarded as an enhancement, but in essence the braiding only serves to help reduce mechanical damage and in units which do not move there is no reason for that. Those points are just a broad pre-amble to the main point, which is that where hoses are used then in many types of these units the oven hose passes over the top of the oven / grill, and the hose to the hobs does the same. This often in a poorly ventilated area. In general hose manufacturers do not certify their hoses for use where ambient temperatures are likely to exceed a certain figure, usually in the range of 50 to 70 degrees centigrade. Ovens are normally used at 180 to 200 degrees centigrade. It doesn't take any great feat of imagination to imagine that in some cases the hoses will be exposed to temperatures in excess of say 50 degrees. The result is that over time the hoses denature, they soften and turn to a sticky mush (often not evident to inspection if braided), they can fail in themselves or simply blow off the swaged end fittings. I have seen two recent incidents where this happened, one an explosion and fire where the occupant miraculously escaped unharmed. In the second case the unfortunate occupant died. Do not use flexible hoses where they may be exposed to excess heat. Both boats had recent BSSC's. 2. Gas ovens. Gas ovens in free standing cookers have a flue outlet somewhere at the back to vent the combustion gases from the oven. If the flue is too close to combustible materials then this can cause a fire. This happened last year on a boat with a recent BSSC. In both cases BSS seemed to take little interest. Balliol.

If you get an email warning you not to eat tinned pork because it contains COVID-19, ignore it. It's spam.

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

If you are a true fisherman you would know that it is the closed season for fishing until June 17. Have you got a rod licence ?

Unless they get a seal of approval from CRT

Are you SURE? I've thought about this quite a lot and if the world was flat, there would have to be an edge, and if there is an edge, the edge would have a fence in these days of H&S. To stop the more adventurous of us falling off and hurting ourselves, landing on the back of the giant tortoise. Consequently, maintenance of this fence would be quite a big deal and the company looking after it would have quite a hefty stock market listing, or there would need to be some sort of world government to look after it. As there is neither, I surmise the world cannot be flat. On the other hand, if the world was round as LG would probably claim, surely all the water would run downhill to the south pole and drip off. But it doesn't. So I'm not sure it can be round either. Do you see what I mean??