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  1. Those who are suggesting more draconian measures remember the OP says his requests have been answered with "threats and abuse". We don't know who/what we are dealing with here. In my professional life, among many other unpleasant duties, I have had to attend evictions from property and on one notable occasion I had to remove someone from my own. It is not something to go gung ho at, people at their wits end often have nothing to lose.
    4 points
  2. I think what depresses me more about incidents like this is that if, for example, they had parked up, come round to the back door and politely asked if we would mind them blocking our drive while they just nipped to the shop, I would have doubtless have agreed. In fact I would have thought what nice people and they would have though the same. Instead of which the encounter left us both thinking the worst of each other. This came up in the recent thread about running engines after 8pm. It's not so much the noise, it's the lack of consideration, the rudeness, and it's so avoidable.
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  5. Another option would be to see a lawyer and make a claim for a refund of 100% of licence costs and 50% of mooring costs for the length of time that this has been going on. Finding a suitably experienced lawyer might be tricky though. It seems to me that CRT are in breach of contract with you, for both the boating licence and the mooring licence. My first thing would be to contact Matthew Symonds on this (he's the current Head Of Boating). Email: Matthew.Symonds@canalrivertrust.org.uk and copy in richard.parry@canalrivertrust.org.uk Ask for a meeting on site This situation is utterly unacceptable for you and Canal River Trust have a responsibility to act. If CRT don't deal with this, go to the press: Towpath Talk, Canal Boat magazine etc. Are you a member of the IWA or NABO? They may be able to help too.
    3 points
  6. Untie and set them adrift Without any witnesses 🙂
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  9. That is exactly what I did when I arrived at Great Haywood at 07:00 only to find a boat moored directly outside the only working waterpoint. The owner seemed upset that I had woken him, but failed to understand that I couldn't moor in front of him to get water because my hose wasn't long enough. I just ignored him and filled my tank.
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  12. If you stop the flue pipe a little below the top of the collar, you can slope the silicone sealant down towards the flue, so that any condensate which runs down the inside of the chimney is more likely to find its way back down towards the fire. A projecting flue forces this to flow out across the roof instead.
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  14. Having established that HVO is not snake oil and that it can more than adequately meet inland boaters demands (be that as a fuel for propulsion or for heating and cooking) IWA are now turning their attention to promoting the fuel more widely across the inland waterways system. Supply usually responds to demand so boaters can make a huge contribution to this exercise by simply asking their suppliers to stock it. At the moment I am only aware of two marinas and one fuel boat that stocks HVO but I suspect several more are in active discussions with the fuel distributers.
    2 points
  15. Increasingly, I hear the same from a small subsection of boaters, when discussing the shortcomings of CRT.
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  18. We think it's a good scheme - instead of whining that CRT staff don't understand boaters needs, take them out and show them. We've already taken two CRT staff out since the scheme restarted. Just bear in mind that the staff don't want or need several hours of ranting by grumpy boaters. Show them the bits that could be improved by all means, but also remember the role of the people you take - a payroll administrator is unlikely to be able to arrange much dredging!
    2 points
  19. I would suggest that when you are not using the stove you remove the chimney and have a cover over the collar to stop rain going down the flue, and when you are using the stove have the chimney on but no chinaman's hat, so moisture in the flue gases is either carried away with the smoke or runs back down the inside of the flue.
    2 points
  20. Sorry about the brain fart, blame Covid-19 (everyone else does). If you really do need every inch of the canal to get your boat out here's what I would do. I would write - and I do mean write, not email, to CRT and send it by recorded delivery. Explain to them that despite several complaints by you and others, these boats remain moored in clear contravention of their licence conditions. Explain that you cannot access the canal whilst these boats remain moored in this area as you need the entire width of the canal to navigate safely. Tell them that you need to move your boat for essential maintenance and that you intend to attempt to move it on xxxxx date and make that say 2 weeks away, but the longer the better. Explain that you cannot guarantee that when you move your boat that there will not be an impact with one or more of these offending boats. Say that it is the duty of CRT to enforce licence conditions which is why you are giving them enough notice to have these boats moved. By doing this you are doing everything reasonable to avoid the risk of damage. Should you then attempt to move your boat and collide with one or more of the offending boats no-one can claim that you have acted irresponsibly and IMHO you would not be liable in any way. Of course you could go further and seek legal advice but in the end the law tends to favour the person who acts in a reasonable manner so if you do everything to make it clear that you are being reasonable, you put yourself in a safe position.
    2 points
  21. Will be interesting to see if this is the original film then on vhs or one of the re edited ones where many of the stills & clips of the true working boatmen that where sent from Bulls Bridge junction to stk braune for a days filming have been cut out = picture clip in original= Dad & Grandad in vhs film
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  23. So, from the posts in this thread, various people assure us they have been let down by Three, Vodafone, O2 and EE. Just goes to show they are all worse than CRT!
    1 point
  24. Which network or company you don’t get shafted at some point. 😩
    1 point
  25. Ive been caught twice with 3 contracts, never ever again. I pay a few quid more for a proper service.
    1 point
  26. On this day last year (2020) Tankard Bridge, Selby Canal - 2 days before it closed due to a vehicle strike, although we were back there from 1pm and didn't see or hear anything and the parapets looked no different to our previous visits. I understand that North Yorkshire Council have finally granted permission for the road closure required to make the repair and the temporary scaffolding to protect boats from falling debris can then be removed.
    1 point
  27. When was the belt last changed, and were the pulley grooves cleaned at the same time? Multi rib/poly V belts are very sensitive to rubber build up in the groove roots- the belt then cannot wedge properly into the vees. Performance falls off and the belt wears quickly, and slips worse. It is a vicious circle leading to poor charging. At and immediately after start up the alternator is working hardest because it has to replace the charge you just used to start up. The battery voltage is down after a heavy current discharge but the alternator wants it to be 14.4 V or so, and goes to full output. If all is not perfick, the bielt slips. Not enough to notice at first but it gets worse every time. The problem is made worse by the speed up nature of the alternator drive. That makes the alternator pulley the most heavily loaded part of the drive and gives it a poor belt-wrap to carry the load. Since it and the water pump turn freely, I doubt there is much wrong with your alternator and what you have is just start up overload on the belt. This is common and some alternators (big beggars) have a soft start to prevent it. The current belt will be past its best if it has been slipping on start for more than a few days. So, if the belt is not brand new, replace it and give both the drive pulley and the alternator pulley grooves a good clean with a wire brush, (or a tooth brush and carb cleaner) making sure you get to the bottom of the grooves and get all he old rubber off. Then tension the new belt in accordance with the Lister instructions. It is also a good idea only to buy top- notch belts. Gates, Continental, Brammer are good names. Chinese cheapos are only any good for running a washing machine. N
    1 point
  28. Yay! You'll be outfoxing the Foxes next!!
    1 point
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  32. Rightly or wrongly I don't tend to use "Aga" as shorthand for these appliances, but it did lead to a very odd conversation with a friend of mine who has just bought his wife an electric camper van. He said it was ok but he wasn't too happy with the "range". We got quite a long way down the road before I realised he was referring to the miles travelled on one charge...
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  34. But good convenient moorings are not always easy to get. There are an increasing number of antisocial "boaters" on the cut and we can't let them control our boating. In the last two days have met three boats moored just about on the lock landings on the Oxford, a bit of a pain when you have a full length boat. It did occur to me that the OP should get the papers involved, CRT do not like bad publicity. "Boaters pays top price for mooring and is forced out by thugs" or something like that
    1 point
  35. Jack Griffiths was working the boats Bargus and Uranus in 1944. There are some photos of him in the photo archives of the Imperial War Museum but I do not have a reference number for them. The name given in the captions is wrongly given as Gribbis though.
    1 point
  36. Our neighbour at the moorings in Auxerre lives mainly on freshwater mussels, the shells of which get left on the deflector plates of Luciole's rudder. He does, however, also like the occasional croissant
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  38. Johnson make a submersible bilge pump that can be operated with a solid state level detection device, so no moving parts, but they ain't a cheap option
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  40. A lot of the rest of the money is in EMC testing, RoHS proving and all the other "stuff" needed for a CE marking. Unless you can guarantee to sell millions they have to be paid off from early production batches. I can think of several handy electronic devices that disappeared from the market when the new rules arrived. I also think it was behind Gibbos decision to sell Smartgauge to Merlin. N
    1 point
  41. My experience of trying to get CRT to move a boat that has moored up on the offside has been fruitless. This boat has been there over a year and therefore must have managed to get a new license! Give up your mooring and go somewhere else, life is too short to deal with this, it's just a recipe for stress.
    1 point
  42. by way of an update. Hubbie invested in an battery reader. We were chuffed to find that all batteries were reading good. A bit of detective work identified a loose wire behind the ignition switch. found by sheer good luck, I am so pleased to say , she turned over and started a treat.
    1 point
  43. We've had a fair few of these "bad phonecall experiences", maybe its got better or maybe some people are better than others, but had a few calls earlier this year to book a volunteer to help down the Rochdale and once I was through to the local office (I was transferred quickly) they were totally switched on. They knew the Rochdale was hard, they obviously had knowledge of the volunteer, they suggested that the stoppage on the Rochdale 9 was likely to over-run a bit and the Ashton (yes they knew the alternative route) was a bit low on water. We mutually agreed to delay a week. CRT can be very good when they try.
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  46. Exactly. I look at it like little grains of sand. Some will flow straight through but others will stick and gradually it will build something. The alternative is that the staff of CRT continues to have little connection with the waterways and that surely can't be a good thing? Alec
    1 point
  47. I've just signed up. But ticked no to family members. I'm all for CRT staff improving their knowledge of the canal network, but I'm not providing a free family boat trip!!!
    1 point
  48. Don't mean to be picky but I think you mean Dave Moore. Doug Moore was another "renowned" shell builder.
    1 point
  49. Dog, not fed for a day. Leave the doors open.
    1 point
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