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  1. You could ask a professional like Tony Dunkley ....... runs for cover
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  4. Please, not another thread where the children have a spitting match and wander off into Na Na land. Take your juvenile squabbles elsewhere please. You are spoiling this forum.
    5 points
  5. Hell woman you want everything don't you? Do you think you are entitled to the same as someone living in a house, paying council tax, and connection charges to the utility companies. There is one thing worse than a grumpy old man on a boat. Its a grumpy needy woman on a boat. If you want a generator, phone a hire company, get one delivered and put your hand in your pocket. Job done. Coming on here moaning about being under assisted by the charity will not achieve anything.
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  9. You don't need a mod to express the views of many.
    4 points
  10. I didn't, just sick of the squabbles in public on here, some folk need to grow up or shut up, it spoils the threads and put others off.
    4 points
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  13. Point of Order.... Don't be too hard on these expensive local corner shops. They will be buying their stock at virtually the same price as the likes of Tesco et al flog it direct to the general public, and your perceived overprice will be their gross profit margin. If you begrudge them scratching a living by adding 10p to the price of their beans or 70p to a packet of bacon, then go directly to a Tesco superstore and buy it there. Yes I know that is inconvenient or impossible much of the time, and therein lies the value of overpriced corner shops. Rant over
    4 points
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  15. How old is the boat? I never had a survey of any of my 8 boats, saved me thousands. Ive read many surveys and generaly they are not worth the paper they are written on. More get out clauses than soft Mick. Await incoming.
    3 points
  16. I suppose it depends on what sort of demands boaters make whether C&RT can be seen to be reasonable or not. If every boater wanted to be connected to power at the drop of a hat I don't think they would be doing much canal maintenance and would have increased electric bills. I have always found that when I made reasonable requests they have been very helpful and I think most boaters find the same. Haggis
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  22. Best thing: If I scamper from side to side in the cabin, I can make the boat rock to quite an alarming degree, which makes passers-by wonder what I'm doing in there. Worst thing: When guests don't listen carefully to how the toilet works and create something truly unspeakable. (Thank you covid for giving me a reason to refuse visitors).
    3 points
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  28. How would they have been able to sell the other half of homes that were unaffordable? Seems a very poorly thought out plan.
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  30. Many on here and elsewhere have tried to help you, received no thanks and just further complaining and expectations without you bothering to even listen to good advice, do you really wonder why more help isn't forthcoming? You need to learn some humility if you wish for further help.
    2 points
  31. Not just my Sea-going boats. In the last 40+ years of buying and selling canal boats I have never, subsequenty, had a survey. It is a waste of money. Other opinions are available.
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  33. I understood from the initial posts that the wonderful all singing & dancing River Canal Rescue were "contracted" to you to do the job. You refused help from several other boaters. Is it RCR that have let you down? Are you confused as to who is who and does what? You pay your licence to C&RT to use the waterways, You pay RCR your subs for them to turn out and fix your boat when it breaks, which seems to be frequently. If you are dissatisfied with the service from RCR, stop paying them and find your own repairer. If you are dissatisfied with C&RT, stop paying for a licence and clear off the canals and stop moaning on here. Please.
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  35. OK, I can see that asking CRT to use some electric is reasonable. What is their upside if they say yes? They get a warm fuzzy glow from being helpful. They, perhaps, see the stern of a boat they want to move on. Downsides? They have set a precedent. Every boater with a problem that might be helped by mains electricity pitches up at a services and demands power. (CRT and BW before have previously had problems like this at another service facility, where power was being taken without payment or approval- stolen, if you like.) Elf and Safety issues rear their head Public liability issues come into play. If you engaged brain and thought about why you might have got the response you did, before selecting typing mode, it might stop you making a fool of yourself. N
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  37. I'll have some of what you're on please. On what planet is it CRT's responsibility to provide you electricity to fix your boat?
    2 points
  38. If you really want a survey then you will find that pretty much all surveyors 'will miss something' in their survey, you just have to hope that they find the 'big expensive to fix' things. A good surveyor will be booked up weeks / months ahead, any surveyor that ';can come tommorow' is quite likely one with a poor reputation and therefore not a lot of work. Remember it is a minefield - you don;t have to have any qualification to call yourself a surveyor, and there is no requirement to belong to a surveyors organisation. I wish you all the best - just minimise your risk and accept that the survey will never be 100% (My surveyor 'missed' the fact that a boat needed over £25,000 spnding on it. No recompense and not viable to take to court as the small print excluded any mistakes or omissions he made.
    2 points
  39. CRT do usually respond in a real emergency, but they do fail sometimes. They should not be providing a free service to cover breakdowns etc as the various boatyards and boat fixers who make a living out of this would be very unhappy. Providing emergency access to electricity (at a service facility?????) is a tricky one. Quite a few boaters (sorry, cheap housing people) would feel that winter itself is an emergency and they should be entitled to plug their boat into CRT electricity and suck out 3kW 24 hours a day.
    2 points
  40. Why not insist on connection to the National Grid as part of your licence fee, in fact, to save you hassle running out of gas, get connected to the gas main too, and make sure they change the cooker jets free of charge too. Sheesh.
    2 points
  41. Not sure why C-RT should provide electricity to a boater because they are broken down long term. It is not their fault you are broken down. Why not hire a Genny to give you power to do your welding ?
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  47. If you dont have a heated dock, I would forget it until summer, it will not set, and will bloom overnight with condensation. February is not a good month to paint without heat and humidifier assistance. Look at today's humidity.....doesnt drop below 97 all day
    2 points
  48. Mud being the best and toilets the worst or was it the other way around? 😋
    2 points
  49. WD 40 is not very good as a releasing fluid. Plusgas is far better.
    2 points
  50. I know of three boats with stainless tanks which were thin and flexed and split welds. Replacement required the front deck to be removed to replace it. An epoxied integral tank may require treating occasionally, but is a lot less hassle than bodywork modifications to replace a tank or attend to condensation hull corrosion beneath/around a separate tank.
    2 points
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