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Okay not a standard size then for that application so you may well have a problem getting one of the correct size. Smokeyjoes do make their chimneys up I believe so they may be able to fabricate one for you. Pete

Ah okay. I missed the bit about only getting the region of my choice for free and I haven't received any notification from RCR regarding that yet. Still not free though for the complete app. You are right about the price. Well over a hundred quid for the standalone and I think the Tillergraph advert is a bit misleading. There ya go. Thanks for that anyway. Pete

I take it that is not a flu for a multifuel stove. It does seem a bit small for one of those. I would assume that if it's for a gas or diesel type heater the best place would be the manufacturer. However, Smokeyjoes does various sized chimneys as well as other stuff. www.smokiejoes.co.uk Hmm sorry messed up the link but that's the web site. Pete

Hmm well to be fair the log in problem was probably me. I assumed that because I am a member and they have sent me emails I had log in details. I registered and now I can log in to the shop which is where I was trying to go. in the shop there are lots of apps to download each one for a different part of the system and each one costing £6:00p. Still not free. Pete

Good morning all. I have just started to read the October issue of The Tillergraph that came with my copy of Canal Boat. In it there is an advert for The RCR and splashed across the ad is a banner saying that Waterways Mapping is free for all members. I have just been on to RCR web site to have a look at this software and I find that this software is actually £126:72p with an additional 10% off if I am a member, which I am. I am unable to log in to the web site as RCR say they do not recognise my email address even though they have been sending me emails to that address, the last one dated 15th/10/12 which was about RCR courses. Am I missing something here or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Thanks Pete

Well I have one it's okay, does the job. I don't live aboard though so It's not heavily used. Also I got mine a lot cheaper than that on Amazon. Mine cost £89 but it does not seem on Amazon any more. It is on EBay for a buy it now price of sixty quid. Search twin tub washing machines on EBay. Oh it's a cold fill and no heater so needs to be filled with hot water.

I don't see any ads. I use Adblock with Firefox Pete

NAG hhmmm okay

Thanks for that dmr I'll let them know. I didn't think it was a good idea that's why I asked the question. Cheers Pete

Hi all. Just a quick question. A couple at the boatyard where I moor are painting their wide beam and a very good job they are making of it too being that is the first time they have painted a boat. Anyway I was chatting to them today and noticed that the were painting the bottom of the hull, the bit where blacking would normally be, with shiny shiny top coat. So I asked them if they were going to black that part, as the boat is out of the water and they are not going back in the water for the forseeable future so they wouldn't have to black it, but she said they were going to black it over the top coat that she is applying now. They are using International Toplac at the moment and intends to put International bitumen blacking on top of that. Is that a wise thing to do? I do realise that it is an expensive way to do it but is the bitumen blacking going to be okay on the top of top coat? Cheers Pete

Yep I agree with that. The creeping menace bit, as well, this is what the worry is. As someone pointed out in an earlier post cash strapped councils could try it on with regard to this and then precedences could set which could have far reaching consequences. At the moment the lady in question still owns the boat although she is no longer living on it. The boat has, also, been moved to a non residential mooring. I have yet to contact her about this issue but I will.

HMM okay why "spade? hole?" Who do you think is/are digging themselves into a hole. My friend, the council, the boatyard or me. To Smelly. Unfortunately the lady in question does not react particularly quickly to things especially now that she has moved off her boat. I also think that as things seem to have gone quiet on the question of her council tax she is probably letting, apparently, sleeping dogs lie. I will, though, contact her and try to find out where she stands with this and how things are going.

It most certainly isn't exclusive to day boaters. I got stuck there in exactly the same circumstances, even the same way round. I was in a hire boat though, one of Pennine Cruiser's boats. I don't know how windy it was that day it happened to those people but when it happened to me it was a fairly windy day. I was in a small boat as well, 27 footer, and the wind, which I believe gets funneled at that point, just took my back end. Rudder hit the concrete edge and whipped the tiller hard over very nearly taking me with it and that was it I was stuck fast. Pete

Yep I can confirm what that man said. I bought his boat,although, not from him. I also bought a brand spanking new one of that EBay type. Cost well over a hundred quid and its still total rubbish. it's sitting in my loft at this very minute with the rubbish H type taps that cost another sixty quid cos standard taps don't fit it. I did, eventually, find a very small basin to fit and that is just dandy. Again as that man suggested. Yes I know this is late to this thread but I have better things to do whilst the sun is out than read this, or any other, forum. Just DO NOT buy that plastic thing it is junk. Pete

Hi I bought Leo's old boat, although, not from him. We looked at a lot of boats on the internet and viewed a couple for real. We saw Keb on the internet and decided there and then that bar any hugely bad faults that was the boat for us. The survey was a good un, the hull had barely deteriorated so Keb was the one we ended up with and very happy with it we are. Pete

Yep I will but for the moment I have to try and explain everything to her and she then has to go back to the council and put her case forward. At the moment she has made an appointment with CAB with a view to getting a translation on that document that Fuzzy Duck kindly pointed me to. Cheers Pete

Okies dokies guys and girls. I thank you all for your input. The problem, as always with government documents, is deciphering them. I think you all have given enough info for me and, more importantly, the lady in question, to work with. I shall relay all your info to her and tell her to info, especially, her "friend" who told her she would have to pay council tax and also to the jobsworth in the council. Again thank you one and and all for your extremely useful inputs. Cheers Pete

She will get a new agreement in writing but "not wise to stir the pot too much" is exactly what she and I are worried about and I would think that it could have huge consequences for anyone who has a leisure craft or leisure caravan. Pete

Hmm okay that could be a plan. Would that be legal? But that doesn't really answer the basic question that I think I am asking. Do all us people that own boats and possibly caravans for purely leisure purposes have to pay council tax? Pete

Hi all again. I'm resurrecting this thread cos I am still unsure about this. she is moored in Selby Boat Center and at present she is paying the boat center for a residential mooring. When the lady moves off her boat into a house the boat center will reclassify her mooring a standard mooring and she will pay the boat center for a standard (non residential) mooring, the same as I am, which is fifty quid a month less. To be honest the prices are really irrelevant. She has been told by the council that she will still have to pay council tax on her boat and she has been told by somebody else that everyone who owns a boat should pay council tax as they boats are classed as second homes. Now I don't pay any council tax on my boat which is non-residential and, presumably, neither does anyone else who has a non-residential boat at the Selby Boat Center. What is worrying her (and me to an extent) is that the council might now come down and chase everyone moored at the Selby Boat Center for council tax. I would have thought,also, that if the way she is thinking AND apparently has been told that this would also affect anyone who owns a non-residential caravan as well and as far as I know noone who has a caravan parked in their drive pays council tax on it as a second home. Jelunga (I think it was) Oh I am so sorry it was Fuzzy Duck provided a link to an online document that purports to explain it all. I am not complaining and I thank you Fuzzy Duck for providing that link. To be honest,though, it was written in government (National?Local) speak and to be honest I nor the lady in question understood much of it. I have told her to take it to CAB to get it desciphered but she has taken it to a friend of hers (not me) who has told her that basically it means she will have to pay council tax even if she moves off her boat and her boat and mooring becomes non-residential. I am sorry for the long post but we really are not understanding this at all and to be honest it is slightly worrying. Cheers Pete

Yep I concur on the International 10 year gloss. I painted the 3 wooden bits on the stern of my boat a year ago. The central piece I painted in Sikkams maroon, I cant remember the exact colour, and the two outside bits I painted in International 10 year gloss Oxford Blue. The Sikkams rubbish peeled away after about 9 months but the International is still solid. Pete

Thanks all for that. It does seem that because she has been residential that the council could well be, now, classifying her boat as a second home. The mooring can be used as a residential mooring or a standard mooring and belongs to the selby Boatyard not the moorer. As I said she is changing her mooring from residential to standard when she moves into her cottage. Anyway thanks Fuzzyduck for that I will trawl through that link (or maybe just print it out and let her trawl through it) and see what it turns up. Thanks again all Pete

Hi all A friend of mine has been living on her boat for about 18 months. She is on a residential mooring at the Selby Boatyard. She has now decided that she is going to live ashore and is about to rent a cottage in her home village. She has been to the council, because at the moment she is paying council tax as a residential boat dweller, to inform then that she is moving off her boat and moving into the cottage. Her boat mooring will be changed from a residential mooring to a standard mooring and her boat wil be used purely for leisure. The council have told her that she will still have to pay council tax on her boat and, presumably, on her cottage. Surely this is not right. I do not pay council tax on my boat but I do on my house, obviously. Surely she should only have to pay one council tax and that would be when she moves into her cottage. Any thoughts on this? I have to say she may well have got it wrong but she was quite adamant today that the council will require her to pay two sets of taxes. One for her boat that she will no longer be living on and one for cottage. I have told her to go to Citizens Advice Bureau but would also appreciate any advice from the forum. Cheers Pete

You are right Blackrose and to Gazboatman. There is a diagram and specs somewhere on this forum for a gravity fed central heating system this does not need a pump. Whether this would work for you or not I do not know but it is just about as simple as you can get for a central heating system. Unfortunately I could not find it. The search function on here defeats me and a lot of others, maybe someone can find that for you or you can have a look for it. It's what I was going to do on my boat until I decided to plumb my central heating into my engine cooling system. I am only using two small rads and I am not live aboard so my heating is,generally, just used to keep the chill off when I'm leisure boating and to dry tea towels and such and this, for me, works well. Pete Um Mrsmelly got in there first. Thermosyphon/gravity fed are the same thing.