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If your craft is on CRT waters it has to be licenced and insured. I'm not sure whether dingies are subject to the BSS (Boat safety Scheme) or not but if they are and your dingy is over 4 years old then it will need a valid safety certificate BEFORE you can get insurance. Similar rules apply for EA waters.
I had a four man dingy with a 2HP engine that I had to have licenesed and insured. Your best bet is to ask The Canal and River Trust because you WILL get conflicting advice on here.
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Why delete it? The answer may well have helped others.
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17 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Buyer will always want their own. No-one will trust a seller's survey, though it may be a useful selling point..
Not entirely true a misguided few will rely on a sellers survey for a purchase but this is a rather stupid thing to do whether you are an experienced boater or a novice.
As for your insurance OP, not all insurance companies require a survey for a 30 year old boat but most do and I wouldn't mind betting that yours does. You may know your boat well but unless you are a skuba diver who can see through the crap that is in the canal waters you have no idea what the outside hull is like under the water unless you have had the boat out of the water recently.
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1 hour ago, Chagall said:
Why stupid? Are you suggesting foreign travel just for pleasure is not necessarily needed and so is worthless?
Exactly that.
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I wouldn't have any Apple device even if they were giving them away. All Apple stuff is junk. It just goes to show the power of Apple's hype that so many people think they are the bee's knees. To be honest I wouldn't buy an Apple device partly because they are stupidly expensive, becoming more and more impossible to repair which ties you into buying new, they are not compatible with the majority of the rest of the world, but also BECAUSE of Apple's hype. Having said that Samsung is rapidly going down the same road. WAAWEE and LG have, more or less gone which doesn't leave a lot of choice.
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Those that have them have, usually, made their own from suitable wood. There is a danger if that seat is used when cruising as I am sure you are aware, if the rudder hits something it can swing the tiller and knock anyone sat on that seat into the water very much into the vicinity of that big metal whirly thing, nasty.
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Bottom line is that C&RT are all you have. The only people who have an actual interest in the water and the canal infrastructure are boater. Walkers, cyclists and fishermen couldn't give a monkey's about the actual canals and locks etc. I only see boaters whinging on this forum and, probably, others which I don't read. I see precious little actual action being taken by boaters and the organisation that originally brought the canals back to life. I'm out of it now I'm glad to say. I'm moving to somewhere that doesn't have any canals worth speaking about.
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15 hours ago, dmr said:
I'm originally from Brum and enjoyed our boat visits there but its all gone a bit wrong for me in the last year or two. The Flapper (most interesting canalside pub) has closed (busy and thriving but forced to close) and the Prince of Wales is not what its used to be. The proper pubs have given way to "beverage destinations", rammed with youngsters and patrolled by security guards. New street is loud and aggressive, groups of muslims preaching through loudhailers with various groups of christian types doing the same.
And the Ickneild Port Loop is no longer magical.
The Great Western in Wolverhampton is now the only reason to go up the hill, so the last twice we have gone round the Coventry canal and stopped at the Greyhound. instead
............Dave
That is, pretty much, that picture in every big city these days. It's partly because we are getting old but mostly because that is the way that big cities seem to have gone in the last few decades. I avoid all big cities now apart from York but even that is changing for the worst. I will be moving back to Wales in the next couple of weeks. Not because Wales is any better in that respect, it isn't. It's because I am now old and I need to be near to my family. Luckily where we are going there are no big cities very close and it is very rural. The smell of cow crap, and whatever other stinking chemicals todays farmers contaminate the land with, to assail my nostrils will be the only, SLIGHT, downside. Oh yeah and I don't speak Welsh, but that's okay, if they want money from me they will speak English.
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On 05/04/2021 at 19:06, Alan de Enfield said:
You could pay £30k for a nice shiney Mercedes, or £30k for a nice shiney Ford.
They will both do the same job so which would you choose ?
Nothing to do with the OP but the Ford every time (actually I'm a fan of Korean vehicles) . I'm no fan of american cars but I would never in a million years buy a german vehicle, any german vehicle. Way overpriced and no more reliable than anything else.
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Whichever you buy ensure that it isn't made in China. Everything that comes out of the hell hole is rubbish and it's the chinese junk that is mostly sold by UK suppliers. I would advise to only go for genuine Buffalo Board although I do not know of any UK suppliers. Genuine Buffalo Board has a buffalo motif stamped on it, not that that means much these days. The chinese rubbish will delaminate within months even if you seal the edges.
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If the dislodging of that pin can cause a fire hazard surely something to prevent it dislodging would have been a good idea at the manufacturing level. A small split pin though on both sides or a spring clip in a groove to hold it in place. Seems a highly dangerous piece of kit for the sake of retaining device of some sort.
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As said your batteries are toast. Batteries are consumables so, by far, the easiest solution is to replace the batteries. Welcome to the world of expensive boating.
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On 25/03/2021 at 14:45, Sea Dog said:
But they can shout "Dash Cam!" and "I'm gonna report you!", which will satisfy their inner East German Stasi informer.
Imagine if the government had said we all had to carry a location device, have cameras fitted in our cars and went on to encourage us to report on each other. It would have cost a fortune and there'd have been a human rights outrage - somehow though, they have persuaded us into buying our own!
Nothing to do with the OP's question which I think is a daft idea for the reasons given. But what on earth makes you think that if we all had location devices and cameras fitted to our vehicles there would be a "human rights outrage"? There was no outrage when the numpties that have the audacity to call themselves a government told everyone to report their families, friends and neighbours if they contravened the covid laws. Make no mistake about this in a modern car there are already devices that can record your whereabouts and, if needs be, send it to some satellite or other that has a direct link to the "thought police."
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Seems to me that it is becoming harder and harder to own and use a boat on the inland waterways. I have said for a long long time that if CRT had their way they wouldn't have any boats on their water. As time has gone on I see this "conspiracy theory" becoming more and more a fact. I am so glad that I no longer have a boat. The hassle was just getting too much.
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1 hour ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Its certainly not compulsory but if you fancy having a go, go for it. Just dont expect much support from some of the curmudgeonly old farts on here.
But if you do one dont complain about criticism, even if it isnt particularly constructive.
The highlighted bits are so true. You might make a lot of money, which is the main reason Youtube vlogs are popular.
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I had a Shetland with a trailer a few years ago. Nothing wrong with it although it wouldn't be a boat to live on. It had a Yamaha 25 horse outboard. It wasn't a canal boat really and personally I don't think any plastic cruiser is an ideal canal boat. It was fairly light so was badly affected in wind. At 4 knots. the LEGAL limit on the inland waterways in this country although you wouldn't believe that especially on the Aire and Calder canal, it was a steering nightmare. The toilet was ultra small. Okay if your a midget but I could only just fit in there with a Thetford Porta Potty. Mine did have quite a nice canopy over the cockpit which did act as a quite efficient sail as long as you wanted to go where the wind was going. I only kept it a year and I went back to a steel narrowboat much better in the wind and much better at 4 knots.
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I just had a look at Youtube and the first review that came up was from The Ultimate Handyman. It's a nice size for a boat but it didn't look very sturdy when he had a large piece of wood clamped in it. I think, as I no longer have a boat, I'll stick to my old Black and Decker WM825 equivalent. It is heavier I would think but it is very sturdy and very stable and it is more expensive but mine has done me for a lot of years. It is showing it's age now though and once we have moved house I will be buying another. Looking on Ebay there are sellers selling just the frame and legs for the black and decker at a much reduced price than the full table Just have to find a decent bit of wood to make the table/jaws. Dunno yet got to get this move out of the way first.
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If you buyDe Walt, Makita or Milwaukee scam cordless power tools, they generally come without batteries. Some of the cheaper cordless power tool manufactures, such as Workzone and the Lidle brand ones are also going down this scam route. I did manage to buy a Makita angle grinder off Ebay that actually came with two batteries but that was a while back and I haven't seen anything since. The branded batteries for these tools are also stupidly expensive and can nearly double the eventual price of the tool. There are some chinese knock off batteries available on Ebay but whilst I would buy them I wouldn't recomend them. I also do not think that you will get the power or the battery durability from a cordless tool to do stuff like hull grinding/cleaning. I would also point out that Makita tools are well built but that also makes them much heavier than their cheaper rivals. I would think that De Walt and Milwaukee would be much the same. A heavy tool makes a veryvery labour intensive like grinding the junk of a hull a lot harder.
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Also should that 6 in the model number be a B? If so this is the manual for it and the specifications. The first link you have to double click on either the pdf or the one underneath and then copy the idiotically long URL into your browser. That one is for the PDF manual. I couldn't see how to do a direct link to the manual.
The second link is to the cooker's website. Which also doesn't want to work from this forum, dunno why. Again highlight the link and follow the instructions.
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I have used both Mike Boulton and Ricky Tropman for numerous surveys and found both of them to be fair and thorough.
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Had one of those on my boat and it was junk. I opted for a log periodic on a pole that I could turn to the strongest signal. They are reasonably compact and multi signal to an extent. Worked for me. Those bent coat hanger ones are junk as well.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Log-Periodic-Tv-Aerial/175835/bn_7023559947
I didn't get mine off Ebay too many scammers on there. Go to a decent telly shop.
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And itdoesn't just apply to the boat franternity. We are selling our house and buying a new one (to us) and solicitors and accountants are just as bad. Oh and removal companies.
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Whilst I don't completely agree with you on prices for gas the Alde is certainly the quitest form of gas heating. The Eberspächer especially isn't called the "earbasher" for nothing.
Would you get bored if doing most boating single-handed
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Or just glad to have somebody else to talk to to relieve the boredom perhaps?