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  1. Just completed our first boating break. We used Silsden Boats (Richards Drum) and we absolutly loved it and will do it again. Apart from a Micklethwaitw Swing Bridge failing on us and having to call the emergency helpline (apparently this bridge is notorious), itnwas a great exeperience. Silsden Boats are also a great company to use.
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  3. It used to be said of certain shops (think Bond Street) that if you have to ask the price the you cannot afford it. Much the same, it seems to me, to apply to cruising/mooring rules (aka expectations): if you have to ask if your hoped-for pattern is acceptable then you already know that it is not. This is made even more likely since CaRT are only able to pursue the most egregious cases and anything that even begins to look like an acceptable pattern will be accepted. Those who seek to have a legal rule on how much they have to travel are more often than not those who want it to be as small as possible - there are a few calls from those who want to set it much higher, more consistent with an actual cruising pattern. However, as things stand at the moment there is little chance of there being new legislation and therefore we are all stuck(?) with what exists which pretty much comes down to: (a) maximum stay of 14 days in one 'place' (and remember that no satisfactory definition of place has been found) (b) boaters without a home mooring must engage at all times in a bona fide navigation, making progress around the navigable system. (c) apart from the 14 day (or less if signed) rule, everything else is dependent on the boater convincing The Board (ie CaRT) that they are compliant. Originally, the Board was the last level of appeal on the matter but today there are generally more opportunities to challenge such bodies, but the principle remains the same: the Board's decision if the effective one, subject to them complying with any other more general legislation (human rights, equality and diversity, reasonable admin etc) In other words, if you have any doubt in your mind that your cruising pattern is or is not compliant then you had best assume that it is not. If you cannot convince yourself, what chance do you think you have of convincing The Board? As others have discovered, once you come onto the Enforcement Radar, life can become quite difficult if you do not accept that you are wrong.
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  14. Sadly I am old enough to have bought mine when it first came out ☹️ What people did then was buy two copies, one copy for best and one for the boat with the canals coloured in ?
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  21. It keeps getting repeated that a past civil court verdict by a judge meant that a boat with a home mooring wasn't bound to use it, and that though they still had to go by the "14 days in one place" ruling like CCers, unlike CCers they didn't have to meet the "bona fide navigation" rule and could therefore shuttle backwards and forwards between two places rather that having to go on a journey round multiple places of a length sufficient to "satisfy the board" that they were cruising. This case has been posted many times, usually by the same person ? CART recently updated their rules to close this loophole and apply the same "bona fide cruising" requirements to boats with a home mooring. I'm sure somebody will be along to say that they can't legally do this because of the judge's finding, and then somebody else will point out that a civil case does not form UK case law and could be decided differently if a similar case ever came up again -- but the upshot is, the new CART rules say you have to follow pretty much the same rules as CCers, except you can stay at your home mooring as long as you like. As Mike says, people asking this question are not usually doing it because they want to cruise the canals and are worried about being unfairly accused of breaking the rules, they're usually wanting to cruise in one small area -- clearly against the spirit and letter of the rules -- and are trying to find out how far they can push this and still get away with it, often without even having a home mooring. Most boaters not trying to bend the rules don't like people doing this, because if too many do it the likely consequence is that CART will tighten up the rules further, and more "honest" cruisers will be impacted as well as the rule-benders. If the OP is genuinely wanting to know what the limits are with the intention of staying safely outside the limits rather than seeing how far they can push inside them, Mike's advice is good -- if you're worried about whether you're meeting the rules, you're probably not...
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  22. Theres no OR Athy, one and the same.
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  29. Better to tell CaRT that the overhanging trees are interfering with people cycling and walking. Much more chance of seeing some action. Or tell them that getting your hat knocked in to the water by branches is bad for your well being.?
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  30. On this day in 2009 A Lock To Nowhere Droitwich Junction Canal Lock 7 which would later be joined to some more canal, and looking t'other way. Compare posting this day 2020 of the same occasion
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  31. That is a fatal flaw to my plan
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  33. It didn't happen where the skippers couldn't see one another because of overhanging trees, by any chance? ?
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  35. This rather sounds like somebody relatively new making it up as they go along. Point 1 appears to somewhat contradict points 3 and 4, though this 20 miles is a minimum figure plucked out of the air, and does not mean that 21 miles is ok. I assume that a home moorer when off the mooring is expected to behave like a CC'er, but not to navigate a significant part of the system? I suspect a lot of the initial warnings are generated by computer based on sightings, if this is the case it would be interesting to know what the algorithm is. My advice is to go boating and not to take the p***s. ..............Dave
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  36. This is how I ended up doing it. I put the anchor, chain and some mudweights on the trailing edge of the boat and lifted the leading edge as much as I could. Cruised for 3 days without a problem.
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  38. I emailed CRT about this when it first came in being a home moorer and leisure cruiser. The clock resets when your boat spends a night at it's mooring, so if there's your fsvourite pub you can go there every weekend if you like, as long as you go back home in the week. Generally, home moorers don't have time to go far or too many routes. If you're a leisure boater, and go off on holiday for a few weeks, why wouldn't you cruise? You might park up on your granny's EOG mooring for a week, I suppose, and in that case I'd just tell CRT.
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  41. A bit of allsorts I would say. Fens, France, Bridge is sort of British with a dash of Venice, thatched building is Worcester / Holland, boat is maybe Loire, pollarded willow on the left is that nasty willow tree from Harry Potter and as you can tell, I have no idea at all!
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  43. You won't get freesat with a moonraker, it receives terrestrial channels like freeview.
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  45. Taking a sensible approach, being unaccompanied on any boat is probably a risk not worth taking. Could I suggest that you get an engine cut out key fitted and attached to yourself when steering alone so that if you fall off you have less chance of being chopped in the propeller? A canal boat with a stopped engine will not get far un-steered nor should it do any appreciable damage. Its your decision unless a medic says otherwise but what about your insurance company's view? You need to ask them. I can understand your desire to be as normal as possible but you owe it to everyone else around you to not cause them any danger even if you accept the risk to your person. Can you get or have you a partner to accompany you?
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  46. Not really. That one is fine as long as you read and fully understand how to set it up and very regularly recalibrate it. If you don't then things like Amp hours left and percentage charged will gradually tell larger and larger lies until you wreck those very expensive batteries. It will give you very reliable charging amps and voltage figures and with a bit of knowledge you can use tail current (amps) to tell when the batteries are more or less fully charged and what is known as rested voltage to infer state of charge. See the battery charging primer pinned at the start of the Maintenance Forum. A short while understanding and acting on that will handsomely repay you in longer battery life. My personal view is that until a boater really understands how to look after their batteries, it would be far more cost-effective to use cheap 110 Ah open cell leisure batteries. Unless you can keep your batteries fully charged most of the time you will kill expensive ones as fast as cheap ones. Many here, myself included, consider batteries a service item that will need replacing every few years. Some people who can't or refuse to understand wreck new batters in weeks or a few months. I am also concerned that 3 x 110 Ah lead acid batteries of any description are unlikely to be enough for a modern boat with a lot of electrical equipment. As Alan inferred, its the recharging to near fully charged at least one a week or more and 80% of fully charged every day that is the problem. Please do a power audit and post it here for comment. You also need to do the recharging estimations. Basic instructions on my website in the electrical notes, tb-training.co.uk.
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  49. I don't think misleading parliament is a crime any more, it's more official government policy.
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