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It's to ascertain the damage done to the wriggling population by the everspreading curse of herbs growing. on the canal side. It's a well known horticultural fact that thyme wounds all eels.

I have a 60 year old Mitchelle still going strong as that is the wife's name. Apparently she was either named after the man who designed the Spitfire or after a fishing rod or her father was drunk when he registered her

Jotamastic 90 is your primer.

Your google is better than my google. Had a look, but one forum's enough for me. Any more timewasting and I'll get even less done. Glad it's up and running again though.

RCR is River Canal Rescue isn't it

I thought my assertion so ludicrous as to be instantly recognisable parody!

It appears I was right! 🫢 https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25468504.newport-council-clears-roman-bath-rumours/

I am going fishing tomorrow to our local town lake. I have loaded my kit in the car, two cane rods, a Chapman 500 Avon type and an Alcocks 'Light Caster' two piece trout spinning rod with a self extended handle, using 15 inches of on old wooden broom handle. Both very old, from the sixties. I use a Mitchell CAP with the lightcaster and a Tideflow centrepin with the Chapmans. I will be float fishing. I still have, and use frequently, the rod and reel I got for my 12th birthday in 1959, an Edgar Seeley 'Floatcaster DeLuxe' and the Alcocks 'Record' centrepin. Old tackle is very satisfying to use, especially when I outfish the Buzzer and Bivvie boys! I have, and use frequently, a Mitchell 500. I also have a Youngs Ambidex and two Intrepid Elites.

The latter, obviously... I find myself wondering why the eels need surveying. But then I suppose until we get the results of the survey, we won't know if it needed doing... But then I find myself wondering what action could be necessary once the results are in. None I suspect, other than file the results in the filing cabinet with the "Beware of the leopard" sign. So now I'm back to wondering why do the survey.

CRT have just announced the (post consultation) Winter Stoppages....which include the Buckby flight from 20th October to 19th December....gate repair. Given that the gate in question has been broken all year, the flight shut since Aug 26th, (although CRT have been moving their own boats up and down the flight during the drought stoppage)..this has caused some disquiet between local businesses and CRT. There are many hire boats in the wrong locations, pubs have been badly affected by the lack of hire boat trade and many other private boats are stuck in the wrong locations hoping to get home for Winter, or to boatyards for work. There are also quite a lot of brokerage boats either waiting to get to brokers, or new boaters wanting to take their new boats to their new home moorings. The local coal boats are going to struggle as well, in their busiest period. There is then another stoppage in January for the whole Weedon pound from Buckby bottom 13, to Stoke B Top 14. It also states that the Northern winding hole is between locks 12 and 13...I only just managed to turn there in 2009...since then, several large trees have taken over so it probably a 50 foot space at best now....certainly no hole anymore. There is also apparently a days closure of Braunston for an eel survey.....yes, you heard that correctly.... Joined up thinking is not in plentiful supply in CRT at present.

Trouble with that is Half term falls 27-31 October. But in any case I don't see how the Buckby lock can open in time for it to be closed on October 20. I think CRT know very well its shut now and its staying shut. I met the CRT man for this area recently, he remained very doubtful when I asked about the possibility of using the Northampton arm in the Half term break. The reservoirs are empty. The rain we've had is doing nothing yet. I've heard two things today, maybe someone can jump in and clarify the first which is that nobody can get around Braunston just now because the levels are too low? Second is that if the levels get any lower around Barby Moorings they'll put stop planks in place to keep the moorings in water. So if I can get through Buckby before the 20 October (?) where can I realistically get to? CRT know the reserves will not be in place...unless in rains for 30 days and 30 nights. The stoppage coming between Buckby and Stoke Bruerne in January is a right set back. That rolls on through to February. Realistically, March earliest seems like the time I can leave the Gayton area. So thats a stoppage from mid August ( August 19 was already too late to move, people were running aground by then) to March 1st (fingers crossed). Some folk (CRT) are thinking Easter....and thats April. It seems Buckby out of service for 2 months makes no difference.

And you are surprised ? Your record of amenable dealings with suppliers is not particularly good is it.

Have you tried these they are available in most parts of the country from different suppliers. I pay about £5 for 15 KG in 15Kg bags Not the ones I buy but the first online add I found https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267089842706?

Yes, but if you want to view the actual forums you have to register, I CBA, just to see how it is developing.

I suspect all that's needed is a fuse, which I believe is fitted -- if the charger fails short-circuit the current into the 12V battery will be high enough to blow it. A TVS diode won't protect against overcharging, the voltage has to be high enough (e.g. 15V?) so it never turns on normally, and that'll be too high to protect the battery.

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/0196acde-15db-7de6-b105-2cbbf37547ed

He left. Didn’t like some modding decision.

Incidentally where is Magnetman, hasn’t posted since Aug 30, which is unusual and the picture as his aviator has disappeared? Hope all is OK

I am strongly opposed to unnecessary pettifogging bureaucratic interference in the routine lives of ordinary people. Can you tell?

Up to about a metre, I believe...

And all this is easily side-stepped by chucking the RCR documentation in the cut, grinding off the HIN and asserting the boat obviously pre-dates the stupid RCR legislation. Not that I'm suggesting this is a Good Idea, obviously....

When I knew the boat and its owner in the early eighties there was an SR3 under the hatches driving a conventional shaft with ventilation plates and a butty ellum.