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That is when we had a proper Navigation Authority, not a bunch of incompetents more interested in what the next colour of signage should be. Glad I'm out of it.

Must have left out ignorant. I apologise for the omission, fella. I remember back in ancient times on the old pre-web newsgroup when the school holidays had started we used to get all the twelve year olds having fun pretending to be grown up, making up stories about themselves and trying to get a rise out of the old codgers. Didn't realise it still happened.

Christmas Greetings 2020 Please click here for your personalised greeting ? Here's to Something Better in 2021 Peter and @ElaineMary

Instead of crowd funding a court case, why dont the NBTA crowd fund a pontoon repair. Probably achieve far more, far quicker, and mean that money doesnt get wasted on the legal people who have far too much money anyway.

As above, plus: Make sure you have some waders. In case you cannot get ashore: Make sure you have laid in plenty of essential supplies, Top up your heating fuel and water tanks. In case you should involuntarily go boatabout: Have a watertight grab bag with your vital paperwork (passport, driving licence, credit cards, phone etc.) handy. Know where your lifejacket is. N

You should be on a rising pontoon, or have rising mooring rings on scaffolding poles. Do not tie centre line, and have long loose lines front and rear(the more the better). Always try to tie back to the boat in case the mooring point goes underwater and you need to loosen/untie for some reason.

Yes it is Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut. Its fine as long as it does not drop into float before the batteries are all but fully charged and as I said before I suspect the smart chargers and the controllers probably use similar logic in their chips so they are likely to. However even so I don't see why, apart from in a very few specific cases, an alternator needs a float charge setting because why waste fuel and engine wear charging after then batteries are full. I can see it would be an advantage on ocean going boats though that run 24/7, especially if they have 12.7/25.4 volt regulators. However as far as I can tell from the OP he thinks, until he cares to clarify what he intends to do, he will get a longer battery life if he ruins his start battery by discharging it through a battery to battery charger presumably running 24/7. In that case it is probably a good idea to have afloat setting. The only thing he will not have is an enhanced absorption voltage in the case of a 13.8 to 14.2V alternator regulator but in most cases I suspect a new regulator would go a long way to solving that at less cost. Still its his money and hos boat so he can do as he wishes. Edited to add, I still don't understand why someone who claims technical knowledge thinks any form of multistage charging will look after his batteries better than ensuring they are as fully charged as possible for as much of the time as is possible and avoiding deep discharging where possible.

FTFY Seasons greetings to one and all - may your 2021 cruising be continuous, lock gates be leak free and closures (whether breach, flood or vandalism) unheard of. And let's all try and be nice to each other - whatever the size and condition of our boat (or even if we own one), we share a common interest in waterways.

That's far too intelligent for me, I haven't a clue what you're talking about. It does strike me that you might need a trick cyclist rather than a sofa, though. Anyway, Happy Christmas, and may your fat boat never get wedged under its bridge. Fella? They come over here, you expect them to at least learn the damn language.

As we approach one of the oddest Christmas seasons we have ever had, I would like to wish all the CWDF members a happy and peaceful day tomorrow. Let's all hope that 2021 is a more "normal" boating year when we can enjoy cruising our waterways again and that the dreaded Covid recedes and allows us all to meet family and friends again. Stay safe, folks ! Haggis

Preparation means doing things in advance of when you actually need it. If you're moored on the Gt Ouse but you haven't had the foresight to prepare for flooding then I'm afraid it's too late.

Showing the reconstructed wing wall, site of the 1971 breach, that nearly closed the Bridgewater Canal for good.

More and more people have more and more electrics on their boats, which means you get more and more generator noise. In summer it may be moderated a bit by solar, but there's plenty without still. It's one of the changes that add together to make the waterways less pleasant and more like real life! And, in fact, the one which is moving me more and more towards packing in boating. Like many others, I do it because I love the peace and quiet - only, because there are many others, there's less of it. There again, as I get deafer...

A big happy Christmas, and Good Pagan tidings to those who celebrate something different, from Kathy and myself after this crap year that stopped being fun in March. Cant wait to get back into our Tier2 boat for the last few hours before we transmorgify into T3 whilst asleep.

Happy Christmas everyone, I've just got back from the annual family meal, much hilarity and merciless piss taking but I am glad to be snug and warm back on the boat, all the best

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We live in Ellesmere & haven't seen or heard about any physical barriers across the canal.

It always strikes me as the ultimate arrogance when a government decides to abolish some historic counties and move the ancient boundaries of others. I understand the need for creating more rational local government areas but how they can move towns from one (ancient) county to another beats me. We, here in Bristol, are feeling seasick. Moved from Tier 3 into Tier 2 and then back again before we could even apply the parking brake. If I lived in the delightful town of Thornbury I would have been well pissed off when the antics of 30,000 students in Frenchay (actually in north Bristol but within the so-called "South Gloucestershire" move the town into Tier 3.

Or one I made up." Cast adrift featuring Veronica Lake and George Raft."

I think he’s a CRT sock puppet come on here to derail this thread lest it gains any traction.

We might not agree on a lot of things but we can agree on this!

It does seem to me that some responders have missed the point . The title referred to " casual boaters". i.e. those not lucky enough to own their own boat . I fully understand that long time boaters may find it all a bit ho hum. Horses for courses. Many of these videos give a valuable insight into a life that for us casuals is very enlightening . I view it as akin to my downplaying a visit to my country as i have seen it all, but for you its an exciting adventure . Be Kind .

Fat boat, overpriced yoghurt pot, chip on shoulder, overweening sense of self importance, erroneous belief of intellectual supereority, refusal to answer questions, inability to argue a point withour resorting to abuse - I suspect he has had a run in with CRT's enforcement team and has come on here to try and get someone else to kick up the fuss he hasn't got the bottle to. Fella, indeed. Bet he hasn't even got a composting toilet.

What is obvious is that you are an obnoxious gobshite.

It’s not about being challenged on a technical discussion, that I relish because it makes one think, and quite often something is learned, which is always good. It’s about avoiding the nause of interacting with someone who plays the “patronising” card on the first encounter. A cheap shot and tedious beyond belief. Life is too short to deal with such people. If you are any sort of engineer as you seem to be implying, you would know without even having to think about it that clear and concise communication, eg between design engineer and customer, is the vital first step in any project. Since your opening shot was classically unclear and somewhat rambling, I think it highly unlikely that you are any sort of design engineer, or if you are, you are not a naturally good one. Oh and I have been a professional electronic design engineer in my time, though I did change careers and so now electronics is only my hobby. I could have been more patient, open minded and inquisitive but why should I bother to exert that energy? Why do you think you are worth that? You are not paying any of us, we don’t owe you anything, it is you who is seeking free information. This is why I call you “entitled” - you seem to think that whilst you, who are seeking free information, have no duty to present your question clearly and politely, whereas apparently we have a duty to treat you with the utmost respect and go to great pains to avoid any possibility of failing to pitch our responses to you at the exactly correct level. Yup, that is pretty much the definition of “entitled”. I would have kept reading and perhaps understood what you were actually asking (though why should you make it so difficult, was it some sort of game?) but when you hit the sulky teenager button and whined that it was so unfair that we were patwonising you (aaah diddums) I lost interest.

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I thought SDS did drill bits ... SCS do sofas

Happy Christmas everyone, make the best of what there is and stay safe. There's a vaccine on it's way to an arm near you!

But what is refreshing and uplifting about Repair Shop is that there's no money or profit-making or competition with winners and losers, just the joy of bringing old knackered treasures back to life ?

Anything involving the Baton Twirlers I tend to ignore as they cant even be bothered to have boats to cruise....but they are very keen on a free ride at someone elses expense from what I can see....As a live aboard myself they have no right to claim to represent me!

Of course it is, ?