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  3. Not quite the right question, is it? I don't expect a family in a house to move. I might expect a family living in a transit van to move, rather than stay parked up and down the same street for years on end. I expect a family living on a boat, claiming to be cruising, to be cruising. Well, I don't really expect them to, but the law does. I also do think that there have to be changes made, so that people living in mobile accomodation can legally stay in a place when they need to, for as long as they need to. Of course, this has been the argument of Traveller families for most of the last century, and they get kicked off land they themselves own for an assortment of reasons. Legally, for a long time they should have been provided places to stay, but every authority in the country weaselled out of it. So why should boating families be treated any different? The whole thing needs sorting out, but is unlikely to happen under our political system and where increasing house prices are more or less a religion. I think I first read that rather specious argument in 1994. It was nonsense then and is nonsense now. Not Angry at all, just amused at reading the same old drivel year after year. Of course there aren't hundreds of them. The ones that are are a bit of a nuisance, but that's all. But if they can't be identified, they can't be seized because there's no proof that they have been overstaying. And if they aren't uninhabited, they just need to move a few feet and pretend to be a diffrent boat. It's not as easy as just towing it away. And yes, it's complicated by a rubbish housing system in this country, and everyone needs somewhere to live, and personally I don't give a toss whether their boat is licensed or not. CRT do though.
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  7. No need for inventing anything. There are many examples of hogging moorings I've come across. In some cases the boat hasn't budged in years. So who exactly is behaving like they're more important than anyone else? And please don't make this into some kind of rich/poor or class thing. It isn't, it's simply about being reasonable and trying to be equitable with a finite resource.
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  8. Surely there are only two categories of boaters -- those who divide boaters into categories, and those who don't... ?
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  10. In life increasing restrictions generally arise alongside increasing demand. It's akin to the economic law of demand & supply. I'm surprised that some people aren't aware of this and often seem shocked when things become more difficult or expensive. When I took my motorbike test in 1980 I just rode around the block and did an emergency stop when the examiner jumped out into the road from the pavement. That was basically it. Now it's much more difficult. I think most of us of a certain age remember taking our driving tests and being in the car with the examiner. After 20 mins of driving the examiner asked a few simple questions. These days, as well as the driving they have to sit a formal written test. I remember going to Glastonbury in 1981. At that time it was a few fields with about 20,000 hippies and alternative types and you could easily bunk in by walking through a hedgerow. Last time it was on 300,000 people attended. It stopped being an alternative festival several decades ago and now costs a couple of hundred quid for a ticket and it's surrounded by high fences and security. With increased demand things change, generally for the worse, don't be surprised. I bought my first boat to live on in 1998 but compared to some on this forum I'm still a relative newby. It seems ironic how some people who've only taken to the waterways in the last few years (and I'm not necessarily including the OP) complain about increasing restrictions when it's actually the increased demand created by them and lots of other new boaters that have brought about these changes. It's a bit like how people stuck in traffic jams complain about traffic jams when they're part of the problem.
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  11. I’m tempted to ignore it anyway! I will be passing that way…I think it’s time boaters started being bolshy…especially those using the system rather than just being welded to to towpath in one spot.
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  14. I thought there were 10 categories of boaters - those who understand binary, and those who don't...
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  16. One person’s restrictions are another person’s improvements. Ask yourself why CRT bothered to make those changes. I suggest because the canal in that area has a history of live aboard boats who hog the moorings and move as little as they can possibly get away with. It boils down to whether you think the canals are a place to house people, or whether they are a leisure park for everyone’s recreation. My personal view is the latter, but of course I accept that for plenty of people it’s the former. Who is right? Moorings that are 14 days a year at least improves the chances of a leisure boater being able to find somewhere to moor in that area when passing through on a cruise. Though I’m inclined to agree with your question about how it can be policed, and even whether it’s legal.
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  20. Thank you for one of your (mercifully rare) insights, yet again based on lazy stereotyping.
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  25. Saw Dover today on the Audlem flight, the owner was wearing a t-shirt that said... Yes it is the one off the TV. No I didn't buy it from Alan Herd.
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  26. True, and a big splash when the neighbour shoves it into the canal in anger.
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  27. And the odd half tone of coal, 6 people drinking beer etc
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  28. Wont the voles be in the charging points?
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  29. Obviously no heating on their boat, he's had to go to the pub in his sleeping bag
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  31. I sailed from here on my first ship in Sept 1958. It was then owned by Shell
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  33. Your differing is accepted and agreed. No need to beg! Whilst it’s never good to try to categorise people, perhaps there are 3 categories relevant to this issue, not 2 as I previously suggested. Splitting the live aboard boaters into two categories, those such as yourself who like to explore the system whilst happening to live aboard, and those who only have a boat because it is somewhere nice to live, perhaps in an otherwise unaffordable area. Only this last category is inconvenienced by the new restrictions
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  36. You imply that people who live aboard might be disadvantaged by these changes. I beg to differ. I live aboard and would like to see more of these sort of restrictions, giving me a chance to find a mooring. The 14 days in a year is especially useful to me. I tend to go on one long continuous cruise each year with not much back-tracking. So far this year, I've done about 140 miles in one direction. By the end of the year I expect I'll be at around 300-400 miles. That's while working full time too. I must say I kinda pity those who just shuffle up and down the same section for years on end, especially in the busier areas. Must be a pretty miserable existance.
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  39. Its not really incompetence, its more like a well executed but misguided plan. They are totally obsessed by corporate branding and are just looking for any reason to put up more ugly blue signs. Up here they recently did a survey of the current signs and then replaced them with nasty new blue ones. One sign said nothing at all, I assume most of it had broken off in the past, so they replaced it with a blue sign that also said nothing at all. ..........Dave
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  42. Ohm my god, these jokes are terrible.
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  44. I’ve now had a response from Market Drayton council that the town clerk will be looking at the situation. I’ve also had a response from crt (included below) who don’t seem bothered about the impact on local businesses. Let’s hope that common sense reigns and they either postpone the work or at least do it in stages as has been suggested. Hello Michael, Thank you so much for taking the time to contact us. I am so sorry for how this will impact negatively on you and other boaters. These concerns have been referred to our Regional Team who will update the stoppage notice if there are any changes. I must ask for your patience in the meantime, I'm afraid. Best wishes, Clara diniz Customer Service Advisor
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  49. The towpath at market drayton is in far from poor condition....I moored there last year..its ridiculous to suspend all the visitor moorings on one of the most popular stops on the shroppie during the busiest time of year. I suggest that people make their feelings known to CRT at the stupidity of this. I totally agree...they seem to be going out of their way to annoy boaters and create PR disasters....once again I find myself thinking that BW weren't that bad after all.....
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  50. There are always people warning about vandalism and break-ins on the canals, not just in urban areas like Manchester, including dire warnings about "bandit country" and "thieving scrotes". On the other side, over many years we've moored up in many cities (including Manchester, multiple times) and cruised through a lot of the rough areas people warn about, and the only mild vandalism incident we've ever suffered was when we were set adrift overnight (no damage done). Might have been because we'd just almost won the Halloween lantern competition in the pub we were moored near, and left it out on the roof when we went to bed, I suspect some of the regulars thought it would be a jolly jape to pull our pins out. And this wasn't in a city, it was in the countryside -- the Boat at Birdingbury IIRC... Of course one swallow doesn't make a summer, and there are incidents of break-ins and vandalism, sometimes a spate of them in a small area which is then talked and warned about for years. Maybe this is happening in Manchester right now, or maybe a couple of incidents have been blown out of proportion, I don't know. But I certainly wouldn't let this stop me mooring up in Manchester, though obviously at one of the recognised mooring spots not just anywhere.
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