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I told you - stop apologising! An unpaid volunteer (which may not have been you) missed a renewal - unless you are up at 00:05 every night (local time, which may not be UK) thinking "I wonder if it's still working", these things happen. And a DNS renewal also takes time to percolate through the system, that's how it works. Now, thanks for keeping the site up 99.98 percent of the time.

Burning a grateful of raw house coal might well turn out to be a quicker way to get the police to turn up than dialling 999, from the way things are going these days.

Blimey! The Royal Family will have to soldier on for a good few more generations yet to get to a QE11. It took 300 years to get from QE1 to QE2.

Quite right. Ignore the moaning minnies, although you could take their ungrateful comments as their way of volunteering to help out so maybe you might be able to recruit one or two of them to ease your burden - they have nothing better to do! Many thanks for sorting it out , something I wouldn't have a clue about. Howard

i once tried to pay for diesel with a small dinghy but as it was unregistered and afloat on the Thames I was told it was not a legal tender.

No you'd have a reduction for reversing the system any part of the system you reverse on you’d get money back 👍 Demonstration of exemplary skills deserves a reward

I'd suggest there is no problem for boaters who burn anything at all in a reasonable manner, avoiding annoying people. For those who shove it in the face of the local council saying "this is allowed under the law" relying on some small print, trouble awaits, I predict. As always the "I know my rights" brigade mess it up for the quiet and reasonable masses.

Those are the ones who get shot at dawn by hit squads.

Costs could be related to how much worthless shite is piled on the roof and a massive surcharge for anything illegally placed on the towpath. solar panels excepted/accepted.

It will, of course. I suspect there will be a "standard" licence and "CC" licence, the latter being higher. Then in a year or two someone will go to court to say it's discrimatory, CRT won't contest the case, they'll just scrap the "standard" licence and everyone will be on the higher one, maybe with a small discount if you're on a CRT recognised mooring. Win all round...

Pegasus was acquired by Michael Pinnock and restored. It is now part of his fleet delivering fuel around the London area. It won the HNBC's Hemelryk Award for the most improved iron/steel/composite boat of 2022. https://hnbc.org.uk/awards

Yes, there will be a bit of this as the DNS servers around the world all update at different times. Both in reverting to the holding page when the domain expired, and coming back to the forum servers when we renewed half a day later. Sorry for the inconvenience. Daniel

there’s no point banging your head against a brick wall, if they ain’t gonna see it they ain’t gonna see it CRT will have the replies they want to match the decisions they’ve made.

It is true that the CO causes issues. I think it might be responsible for my health problems (mobility issues before age 50) because many yars ago I used to run a generator on the back deck of my narrow boat regularly and yes I did get headaches. Didn't link it with the generator at the time. Very bad head splitting migraine type headaches. I also had RBD sleep disorder which is a bit displeasing. CO is nasty stuff. I now have two CO monitors with numerical readout in each boat. Usually at zero but occasionally go up if the flue on the fire gets slightly blocked up. Probably too late but as I have the children with me on boat occasionally I feel it a bit inappropriate to mess with their brains too much. I don't use or need a generator any more as the big solar does the job.

It does seem remarkable that anyone would have a CO alarm on a boat for a year and not remove it from the packaging. For me the BSS requirement is irrelevant. CO can cause brain damage, not necessarily death. I have seen the life changing results of this. As a result of seeing the people who were disabled by CO I've had a CO alarm on board from before it was a BSS requirement .

Eight A class keelers, length greater then 42ft, all NZ designed and built racing in the 5 race annual Classic Yacht regatta on Auckland Harbour The oldest Pastime A20 built in 1888 in Lyttleton has just been restored by descendants of her designer/builder. The youngest built in 1908. Together they represent 997 accumulated years of life. Video

When we used to burn coal in our open fire in the 1950's, mum used to lay the fire the traditional way: newspaper first, wood on top of the paper, and coal on top of wood. It always smoked heavily until the coal was well alight. Following a hint in a book, when I used to burn coal in my own open fire, the coal went in first, and a wood fire of thinly-cut kindling was lit on top of the coal. Once the coal got hot enough to start releasing the gases that produced smoke in the traditional method, the smoke got ignited by the flames of the wood fire, and the coal got burnt from the top downwards.with minimal smoke production. I still use the same method with smokeless.

The amount of smoke is often to do with the degree to which the fire has been shut down. Even using smokeless, if the oxygen supply is strangled you will get a lot of unburnt gases and debris coming out of the chimney. Our house installed, defra approved stove has an air vent that cannot be completely closed. That is how it got its approved ticket and there are instructions in the manual not to modify it. The downside is that it gets through fuel faster than the Morso on the boat. It's impossible to keep it in all night.

Sorry Peter, I've only just revisited this thread. I was empathising with your statement about guns.

That's the essential question. Some people will say yes, some will say no... 😉

Well - got my invitation to complete the consulation. I can see no evidence of any 'skewing' of the questions the first 10 or so pages are all explaining that the licence fees must increase, and why. The questions then simply go on to these are some proposals we have put forward for you to choose the best (or least worst) options and there is always the option to 'tick' keep the system as it is now. At the end they ask if you can think of any alternative ways of raising the much needed cash. Seems all straight forward and (for C&RT) not underhand or any deception at all.

Also attacks mild steel. I believe.

What about some 'Gunk' and paper towels.... i find this works quite well....