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  1. Working Boats?

    in General Boating

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    Hire boats ARE working boats! It's just that the crew onboard are on holiday :)

    I don't recognise any pecking order at locks apart from:

    1. CaRT boats

    2. Everyone else

     

    Anyone who asks nicely can overtake me, I don't mind since I'm not in a hurry. Anyone who demands precendence according to some spurious "historical" set of rules can go swim.

  2. Attacked by an Angler

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    If one did injure an attacker or burglar in your home or on your property. Would there be a difference in the virdict if you have a house or a boat? Would the court see a house more as a proper home worth protecting?

    Not if your lawyer was worth anything, no.

  3. Towpath Rules

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by Morat

    As the "owner" of both dogs and a child I can say that they fall into different legal categories.

    For example, if your dog falls ill in the middle of the night you can call the Vet and he will come and see your dog at 3am. Not a locum vet, or a Vet "hotline" but the Vet who knows your dog and its history.

    You can keep a dog in a cage, but not a child. However, many cunning parents have got round this restriction by removing the lid of the cage and re-naming it "play pen".

    Dogs are allowed to foul anywhere (as long as you clean it up), while Children have to wear nappies.

    If you walk up to a stranger and say "could you hold my dog for a couple of minutes?, I'm just popping into that shop" the stranger will probably say "Yeah sure, what a cute dog". If you try the same with a child the stranger will probably scream and run away from the responsibility of holding a small member of the same species - no matter how cute.

     

     

    Doorman - Basset Hound by any chance? smile.png

    Yes, it is and was so funny!

    An ex-girlfriend of mine was walking across a zebra crossing situated on a very busy road at peak time, much to the annoyance of an impatient male driver who'd had the inconvenience of having to pause his extremely important journey simply to allow a pedestrian to cross the road.

    Just behind her and strolling at a snail's pace, was one of those 'hush puppy' type dogs. The irate driver wound his window down and bellowed; "get your f**cking dog on a lead!" to everyone else's astonishment. My girlfriend, who had a very dry sense of humour, quickly replied; "it's not my f**cking dog!". She commented later that the face on the driver was a picture of embarrassment.

  9. Wi Fi boosters

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by Morat

    +1 for Solwise.

    Another option is Nanostation - very good and reliable kit.

    http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-nsl2-p-4810.html?gclid=CJzHn8D-tbYCFcLHtAodRSYANw

     

    The way to go is to get an access point (set to client mode) with a built in directional panel to point at the source of the marina wifi and feed the network down to your laptop by ethernet cable (max cable length 100m) rather than USB. That way you can plug in any network device, including another access point which will repeat the signal inside the boat. Access points are powered by POE (Power over Ethernet) which puts power up the network cable to the device, they come with a 240V power adaptor - you may be able to find a 12V one if the small power usage is an issue for your set up.

     

    Happily the Nanostation I linked to uses 12V instead of the more normal 48V for POE.

  11. Will this harm the boat?

    in General Boating

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    "Eardrumsmaschers" and similar diesel blast furnaces.

     

     

    Hhahahahaha :)

    that made me chuckle!

     

    Strangely I tend to feel extra chilly when moored near a house that has clearly been built after the canal and is displaying signs saying "Quiet, NO ENGINES, PLEASE respect our peace and quiet you horrible canal dwellers - why don't you just buy a house you water gyppos" etc etc

  13. window lickers, how to reduce the impact

    in General Boating

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    Well we don' find it gloomy, I just don't understand this obsession people have with light, in summer there ample light, in winter it's of course darker, but there's only 6 to 8 hours daylight anyway and usually overcast.

     

    Some people seem to want to live in Greenhouses, we normally Black out the entire boat of an evening anyway especially if weather is crap.

     

    We've never had occasion to moan we don't have enough light, I can do all the things I need to do on the boat in normal daylight coming through portholes. The 4 over the galley are perfect ample light for cooking and there's 7 other portholes in that open plan area as well as side doors and cratch doors if opened, I would bet that the glass area is not much different than the same section length of a boat with 4 average bus windows.

     

    Our bedroom area is much darker with just 2 12 inch portholes, but it's used at night :wacko: we just walk through it in the day. Having said that we don't need to turn the lights on to make the bed either :lol:

     

    The utility room has 2 portholes to, the washing is done there and there's plenty of light, even more so if we open the engine room door which is generally open all the time in summer anyway.

     

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    Hardly Gloomy!

     

    Were you a submariner? If not, I think you may have missed your vocation :)

  16. Has anyone been to The Folly (Napton) recently?

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by Morat

    Well, I was born in the 70s... if that makes me young then I'll take it :)

     

    I have a cheque book, somewhere.

    I don't have a credit card any more (paid off and good riddance, I agree with you on that one).

    I receive updates from my bank via text message. Mini statement every Wednesday, warning if I hit my pre-defined lower balance, warning on any transaction over my defined threshold.

    I don't get paper statements, I bank purely on-line - I can access my bank account to make transfers etc from the browser on my phone. Or I can just call them up.

     

    I find this to be a very good way to stay in the black, without ever doing anything as horrifically PAPER based as balance a cheque book :) If someone managed to steal my card details, I'd soon know about it.

  17. Has anyone been to The Folly (Napton) recently?

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by Morat

    So you understand that it doesn't attract interest and it doesn't allow you to spend "Money that you haven't got".

    To get to my nearest cash point is a 14 mile round trip.

     

    Also, judging by the introduction of RF enabled cards specifically designed for transactions under £20 I suspect your views on card payments put you in a very small minority.

     

    Cards are easier, just as honest, and more convenient.

    For me.

  18. Has anyone been to The Folly (Napton) recently?

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Ah yes. Cards.

    They do still have a sign outside saying that they DO take cards which is a bit annoying. Luckily I heeded the warning.

     

    Personally, I use a debit card where possible. Cash is handy but I only use it if I haven't hit the transaction floor for a card.

     

    Because cash is easier, more honest, more convenient and attracts no charges. Lack of ready cash suggests that the custmer is either disorganised or is trying to spend money which he hasn't got. Oh, and I do speak from experience: as a young man in the 1970s I regularly used a credit card, did not pay the full amount off each month, and paid what must have amounted over a few years to many hundreds of pounds in interest charges! Luckily I have learned sense since then.

     

    I do own a credit card but rarely use it, and always pay the full amount due each month. Mrs. Athy hasn't owned one for years.

     

    You DO know what a debit card is, don't you?

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