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Sorry I'm not getting this. The guy has been taking the p*ss for 4 years, drives his neighbours round the bend with anti-social behavior, running a genny whenever, has a boat that is basically a scrap claims moving it was the cause of it sinking and people here expect all of us to feel sorry for him and hope he gets a payday. I truly hope he gets exactly what he deserves.

Near one of my moorings, on a clapped out unlicensed cruiser lived a seriously dangerous guy who bragged sbout stealing from our boats, and that from local knowledge we knew it was true. He stole coal, diesel, generators and anything else he could get, broke into a few. Police wouldn't do anything, couldn't even be bothered to interview either us or him. None of us were particularly surprised or saddened when someone set fire to his boat, nor were we bothered that he was asleep drunk at the time. He and his dog (which had bitten enough people for us not to care about that either) got off and survived unhurt, the boat didn't, he shoved off somewhere and all the thieving stopped. Trouble is, the law is useless against most antisocial behaviour, however bad it is, and so sometimes you have to treat badly behaved animals like you do similar nonhuman ones. Rules only work against people who recognise their validity, and pisstakers don't. Thus CRT takes years to get a liveaboard off the water, and everyone suffers for that time.

Happy summers recalled. The fortified farm, at one time an abbey, lies at Basseville on the Canal du Nivernais. It dates back to 1328

First snow of this year on the Huddersfield Narrow.

Not sure if this has been posted before.

Just over a year ago I ordered some Leoch Pure Lead Carbon batteries, after a discussion on here, and I think I said I'd let everyone know how I got on with them. Much more recently I was asking for people's experience of the typical difference between batteries' nominal capacity and their actual capacity; this is a follow-up to that too. Unfortunately I don't think I have anything terribly worthwhile to report. I got what should have been a 432Ah bank of Leoch PLCs fitted late last year, but very quickly got the impression that their actual capacity was not as advertised; following a full charge, I was seeing about 110Ah-120Ah counted out by my BMV before my Smartgauge showed a 50% state of charge, suggesting an actual capacity of 220Ah-240Ah or so. Long story short, after many, many emails back and forth and a bit of heel-dragging on both sides, I've just managed to return the batteries for a full refund. I've just fitted a new bank of the same size - the cheaper Leoch Superior Lead Carbons this time, as a like-for-like replacement wasn't available - and they do seem to have the advertised capacity. So it seems reasonable to assume the other ones were just faulty in some way, rather than that the manufacturer is routinely overstating capacity. But one year on I still have no experience of a non-faulty set of lead carbon batteries to share, I'm afraid.

Quite frankly Bob, in a narrowboat, if your chair is within Bluetooth range you're sat next to the bloomin' charger anyway!

Not my stupidity (but could be argued my stupidity in not checking). And could have been serious... I used to tow a big boat for the dive club. 6.5m RHIB with a 140HP Suzuki four stroke on the back. Boat was rather over a ton (without divers, diving equipment etc) The RHIB was attached to the trailer in two ways at the bow; a winch used for launch and recovery and, for additional security the painter was lashed tight to the trailer. Some people prepared for launch by disconnecting the winch and securing the painter, others by untying the painter leaving the boat retained by the winch. As we were a large group with different people on different trips, the inevitable happened one day... One person disconnected the winch, another the painter... I started to back the trailer down the slipway and noticed the bow of the RHIB start to move... away from the car... Floor the throttle (which, in reverse and low ratio wasn't that fast) and just managed to make sure the RHIB slid off into the surf rather than onto concrete. Then start a discussion about the benefits of a standardising procedures and having a checklist.

One or two posts have amazed me this past week. Shiny verses Tatty. Renting out and getting round the regs. travelling or not traveling during a pandemic.

George Useless has said it, so it must be so. The sausage meat is the key. A bit of pickling vinegar does not make it a substantial meal. All academic to me in tier 3.

How about if it sinks having been moved into the middle of a multiple-boat argy bargy with a load of heavy steel things? Again, just going on the 'facts' as reported — it may have been in poor condition, but it may also not have sunk if it were remoored appropriately. We will likely never know. Ultimately the production company have created the problem for themselves by moving it without permission. If they hadn't moved it and it had sunk on its mooring, this conversation would not have happened. They've implicated themselves in a situation where it will be impossible to prove that they are innocent. Licences and the general attitude of the owner are separate problems. Conflating them only creates confusion. Edit: what if it were your pristine, wooden classic motor cruiser that had sunk as a result of their poor mooring skills? The production company need to be held to account for their actions to dissuade them from taking liberties with other property in future. This is important regardless of whether the boat had the right to be there in the first place.

But the lockers are probably OK ...

There have been several recent new CWDF members that have signed up making their user names the same as their email addresses. Most change it to something more anonymous after the down sides of doing this are pointed out, but it puts them at risk of being spammed, if nothing else. Can we have a warning in the sign-up page not to do this and why? Ideal would be a ban on the @ character in the user name field of the form, but I've no idea how hard that would be to arrange. Jen@oopsIjustgavemyemailaddesstotheentireplanet.com

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I use touch note to send stuff to mum in her care home due to damned covid restrictions. It's a good app ?

I hadn't heard of touchnote but just had a look. I'll send something as I possibly will know the person as my parents worked at alvechurch marina and we had a boat moored there from around '78 to '90.

Try a wet and dry vac on suck and blow (carefully!) to break up the blockage. Get a stick in through the loo ball and poke well around to move the sludge which has probably slid towards the outlet with standing. If its a stainless or plastic tank a gallon of brick cleaner acid will break any blockage up. Not if its a mild steel tank.

Type of toilet, drop through, vac or massarator ? If drop through pump out via that to get out of trouble then find the problem

No problem. Just reply to this with your email address and I'll turn it into a clickable link for you.

Appreciate all of those points, and I'm acutely aware of my lack of river experience. That'd be why I want to start with the Weaver and see how things go. I'm very happy with my handling skills on the canals, so it seems like an obvious next step. As per the yacht thread, I'm not suicidal ? Also appreciate the differences in mooring — but it's better to have the tools on boar, unused, than it is to not have then on board and be wishing that you did! My mooring hardware in general needs a bit of an update, and a few more stakes or similar would definitely come in useful on the canals too.

in my case I might take 2 dogs for a walk in the muddy countryside, then go to B&Q to collect bags of sand and cement and 3m long timber one day, then the next day I tow my boat 100 miles to the slipway, where it stays for a week before I retrieve the boat (sometime doing damage to the tyres/wheels and underbody because of the poor state of a couple of the slipways that I use. how will I do that if I don't own my own versatile car that I don't mind getting mucky, and occasionally suffering minor damage that I can live with? how will a farmer who has a 4x4 that is used for towing on the farm, towing on the road, and general family duties, manage?

The tech companies have already solved the being racist part of the traditional taxi driving job. Just got to work out the driving bit.

Reading 1st ades tale of launching reminded me of when we launched our Sea Otter at Granton harbour on our way to the Festival of the Sea at Leith docks in the Firth of Forth. Normally when launching I would be on the bank holding two very long ropes with which I controlled the boat after it floated off the trailer but the slip at Granton meant I had to be on the back of the boat and drive it to the pontoon some distance away. Iain reversed the landy and when I reckonned it was the right time I started the engine and engaged reverse. Nothing happened and looking down the side of the boat I saw that the sea water was half way up the back door of the landy. Just then a friend on the bank shouted to us that the boat was still attached to the trailer and Iain drove forward till he could undo the coupling. The launch went fine after that but the landy still suffers from having been in the sea. We never made that mistake again! Haggis

Agree with all that. There's also a possible plus point from Covid-19 that many companies (and individuals) have discovered they don't need to go into an office every day -- or at all in some cases, my last day in the office was in March and I don't expect to get back in before next April -- and this will cut down on the number of commuting car journeys if it continues. Might lead to a rise in the domestic murder rate though... ?

I wonder how many "I must buy a boat quickly" type decisions work out well? It's always days (or more) after Boris makes a decree before the experts study the rules and give general public any idea what it all actually means. The first time round it was months before we realised we could all have taken a drive to Barnard Castle as an eye test. Why not wait 'til things change in your favour or you really know that you can safely look for the right boat in a wide range of places?

Even if it is true that the boat was not lawfully on the waterway, (which I'm not sure has been proved) what on earth makes you think Netflix have any authority to cause it to sink? That would be an easy way out for CRT on occasion wouldn't it! Boat not paid its licence? - sink it and remove the wreck. Boat too long on a 48 hr site? - sink it! Tam

Alison, Does your resident have access to the internet? If so show him the thread below, which started off as a general pick-me-up, and has morphed into a fascinating thread of "on this day" photographs covering the whole of the UK waterway network and a fair sprinkling of continental views, over the last 40 years or so.

Or how much space car parking takes up compared with cycle parking. And the point was well made as long ago as 1965 by London Transport

Ahh, the hazard of replying to a post when you see it, without realising that there are 3 more pages of posts, and the discussion has now moved on considerably from the particular point you were replying to...

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How on earth did it get across the Atlantic and into the Carribbean ?

Just to give a representative example for the benefit of the thread: my boat is about to turn 30 and has just yesterday had a survey for insurance purposes. The majority of the steel has lost, overall, a couple of tenths of a millimetre or less, and there's little pitting but up to a maximum depth of 2mm. I suspect that might be at the better end of 30 year old hulls, but it's not normal for steel to turn to cheese in that timeframe.

You are new here aren't you !!

Whilst I do not want to get involved in your personal slanging match, I do think Mr Chagall has a point.

Someone certainly has some explaining to do. Contractor ? C&RT ? LCC ? Who signed off the schedule of works ? Who signed of the 'satisfatory completion' ?