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I also don't actually mind paying some more in principle (liveaboard CCer); however, I don't expect this move to increase CRT's budget for maintenance, rather just try and plug the gap left by the lower DEFRA funding, so it seems more likely that it might enable them to maintain current standards rather than improve anything. To increase the budget significantly they'd probably have to hike the price to beyond what many will pay and thereby not gain much overall when some chose not to. I think high management salaries are a red herring/not useful in this discussion - they take pennies from the overall budget and you do actually need some high paid bods in an organisation as big as CRT, which is responsible for the generating and spending of many millions of pounds.

I carry self amalgamating tape for that (and other jobs).

I’m amazed the boat mover had the brass neck to charge you for the jack etc to rectify what they did. No two ways the boat mover cilled your boat through their poor locking. The whole story doesn’t really add up with this snapped centre line. I fear the boat mover wasn’t concentrating- it’s easily done. Shame they didn’t just fess up and pay up . Thankfully with luck this maybe unrelated, or at least it’s a reasonably easy fix.

Just drill the heads off and leave the stumps in place as locators. The screws only need replacing if installed in a sea boat and there is a chance of the waves buffeting the boat so violently the burner tops fall off, I reckon. Cookers usually don't have those screws and the rings will work fine without them. Better probably, as you'll be able to clean them!

I like the bit about some people not being happy about the increases. I'm trying to work out who are the over-joyed ones...

Being unaware seems unlikely since CART used the same means to contact every boater that they use for license fee matters: "Invites were sent to c.33,000 individual boaters representing c.35,000 licenced boats. Invites were sent to boaters primarily by email. However, where a valid email address was not held by the Trust, boaters were invited by text message or post, instead" Unable to respond seems unlikely, didn't bother (e.g. "it's pointless, they've already decided...") seems much more likely.

Audacious is a far better boat in my opinion

Not at all wishing to sound rude but..........if you are now retired unless you were a wealthy millionaire and have retired aged 40 then one thing you probably dont have is " Time " and thats what you need to do stuff like looking for a boat at a leisurely pace. Life is way too short to simply worry about the boat value now, next month, next year etc etc. Life is all too short. Buy a boat whilst you are fit and able, that can all change in a split second. Better to have loved and lost and all that