Leaderboard

...especially when some marinas dont pay CRT a penny, not all marinas have to pay the connection fee.

You pay (as do I) to moor your boat in a marina; the mooring rates are essentially set by supply and demand. They are not directly any more or less because the marina owner has to pay CRT a connection fee. That obligation is, ultimately a burden in the land - not a mooring expense. So whilst there is a small point, I think it is stretching it to say marina moorers contribute to CRT any more than one could claim to pay Corporation Tax or employ a groundsman etc because the marina does. The 9% of your mooring fee reduces to 7.2% as it most likely is subject to VAT and the payment to CRT will be based on an exclusive sums. And the access fee is established from time to time, but it is a bottom slice charge and not a side-by-side arrangement. Which further means your mooring charge is detached from the income to CRT.

Chuck them in the BCN like everyone else?

That looks more like a moorhen to me than a dolphin!!

There are a number of ‘Fred’ additions, gas (mantle) lights inside book shelves and other small particular unique interpretations.

Burn it on the towpath outside the Saltaire flats . But not after 6, I think you’ll be told off for mooring if you stay after 6

Yup in over 50 years of hiring, shareboating and owning a variety of boats from 35 to 70 feet I have only ever found the ring spacing to be correct for one end of the boat!

I think we get your point, you’ve repeated yourself often enough, It’s remarkable how you will keep banging on,

Stoppage due to vandalism doesn't adversely effect C&RT key performance indicators though 😊 Rog

I really dislike the new "Eurocruiser" style things with a square back, tiny front deck and pinched in cabin at the front. We saw a huge thing on the K&A last week which was a rather nicer shape than many and the owner said it was built by Colecraft. As these are a very well established company and have also built a lot of trip boats etc, they should be worth talking to.

If they were shear pins, it wasnt vandalism, they have just sheared. If they were lock collar anchor bolts, then they may have jumped out it someone has bashed the gate.

Daer Canal World Community Members. Thank you for all your postings on Mary Gibby, who was clearly loved and respected and a sad loss of one of those unique and interesting people. I am particularly indebted for these postings; I did not know Mary but she was a friend acquaintance and fellow botanist of a close fiend of mine - who had worked at the Natural HIstory Museum for over seventy years. She was equally shocked - and the only information I could find on the internet (and particularly MAry's funeral) was from your Canal World community. Nothing from the Natural History Museum, Chelsea Physic Garden or The Edinburgh Botancial Garden. Anyways, Thank You all again; nice to know such Communities still exist - and I've joined! Even more extraordinary I have sent you some cash! Best Wishes Mel

Next time you are passing some municipal allotments ask there. Carpet is ideal stuff for suppressing weeds and very handy for those reinvigorating a neglected allotment. N

Like this?

USE ROND ANCHORS. PINS ARE NO GOOD. ROND ANCHORS ARE BEST. I shout because it is so true. Get the one with the curved business end. They hammer in easily. Your can get them out of the ground easily. They don't have sticky up bits which catch the shins of the unwary. They don't pull out of the ground. If they move a bit under large forces the dig in a bit more. One of mine was so severely (sp?) tested a bit ago that the welded ring on the end through which you pass the mooring line broke. The anchor didn't come out of the ground, though. I replaced the ring with a suitable shackle. N

I'm not a CCer but first thing I do in the morning when out cruising id check the latest stoppage emails., I would rather bin 6 emails than turn up at a stoppage when I could have gone the other way

There is a big difference between a thermostat getting the cooling water to stat opening temperature and the internals of the engine getting up to design operating temperature. Failing to achieve the latter is a recipe for carbon in all sorts of places you don't want carbon. N

Hey, thanks all for the tv advice and added ‘licence’ debate. I might retune to this channel instead now as it seems much more lively than the idiot lantern. Cheers all!

The collars are off and so are the wedges.

RESULT!!! What a delight! The Bratch is a dream to work though but only without the interference of vollies (or CRT paid staff).

The silver propeller challenge only counts locations visited after 1 Jan 2018 when the challenge started. I lost interest when I discovered that as for us many of the locations were visited before then, so I would need to do them again.

No postcode = no TV licence DAMHIK

What if my home has no TV licence? This is the same sort of assumptive crap I get from the TV licensing authorities in their incessant letters to me demanding I buy a licence. They start with the assumption I breathe therefore I watch telly, then go on to hector me about needing a licence and that I am breaking the law by not having one. If they were a bit more courteous about it I might visit their website and delare "no telly" but while they just send me discourteous letters, they can shove it. Wolfie Smith would be proud of me! I've an idea it was from long before Alistair Cooke said it. Somebody like Pooh Bear, I reckon....

They are saying days before they get the gate/s lifted. Ordering lifting equipment. Surely a winch will pull that gate back into the quoin? The heel looks to still be in the pot. Odd that "vandals" would leave all the wedges and fastenings tidily by the gate, deeply doubt the vandalism reply.

Saves the receptionists having to check every one in the waiting room has a TV license. A waste of their valuable time which they could be using to tell people they can't have an appointment. Have seen outdoor club huts banning the entire BBC internet domain from their wifi network. Saves the TV licensing people (outsourced to Capita), sending the heavies round, because iplayer viewing has shown up on on their IP address and then having the very difficult task of proving it was a visitor with their own license. Different from viewing via the mobile network, which is more easily traced to a person and general location, rather than a property.

Which Whale pump is it? They make pumps of many types. The ones to use for a shower are the Gulpers.

If CRT has sufficient staff to cover EA waters as well, the sob stories about insufficient funds are clearly false. Richard Parry should resign for deceiving us all.

I ignore the lot of them. Far simpler

Robert Bill, a resident near us (Alton/Farley, Staffs - through which the Caldon Uttoxeter Branch ran through) was quite an inventor and held patents for various things - this one being to do with building of canal boats. Our local historian Hazel Mills found these papers very recently.

The rates were based on the rateable value of the property (which was a crude proxy for property value). Rates were payable by owner occupiers, but the rates on rented property were payable by the landlord (so effectively included in the rent). The poll tax (officially the Community Charge) introduced two significant changes. Firstly it was paid by all adults, so for the first time those who rented their homes, and adult children living at home with their parents, were required to contribute directly to local authority costs (and of course rents didn't come down to reflect the fact landlords were no longer paying rates). And secondly it was a flat rate per head (on the basis that the services provided by local authorities cost broadly the same whether delivered to those in cheap or expensive, rented or owned homes). Inevitably it was unpopular with those newly caught in the net, and there was a widespread feeling that the flat rate was unfair, compared with the rates which had to some extent reflected the payers means. After protests the government was forced to back down and introduce the current Council Tax. CT is something of a middle way between the Rates and the Poll Tax in that it is payable by both owner occupiers and renters, but is (crudely) graded by property value, and there is a discount for single adult households, but no extra cost for households with 3 or more adults.

I moved a dumpster to make room for another boat on a full visitor mooring. Many will say it's a no no, but if you can live with it ...

All this "more use of the system" thing is likely a big red herring and used by CRT because there is some logic and simplicity to it. CRT need to raise more money and CCers are the logical target, and here we really mean liveaboards rather than CCers but there is not a separate liveaboard licence group. When I used to write proposals for engineering work they were based on the cost of our labour and facilities etc, but "how much can the customer afford" was always a factor. Liveaboards have much more invested in the canals as without them they would be homeless, and its a rapidly increasing sector. Liveaboard boating is still relatively cheap (though not this year for me 😀). Leisure boating is a very expensive hobby and if the cost goes up too much people will simply give it up. CRT would have got even more stick if they had been honest about this so the "more use of the system" is just a conenient spin. Rubbish disposal is a genuine factor. CRT could also have pointed out that many expensive evictions are for CCing boats, and sorting out the fly tipping from bottom of the market towpath refits is a cost, but again these would just get them into even more trouble.