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If it's too late to get your boat to London to join in, please stand on Westminster Bridge that morning instead to support the camapaign.
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1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I am fed up with reporting broken paddles, gates, etc. and they never get fixed. some have been out of use for years, Hillmorton for instance.
They have too many yellow bags.
Are you referring to 'bags for life'?
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12 hours ago, blackrose said:
I had vague plans to escape the UK and take my boat to the continent, but the advice I need is how to stay in the EU for more than 3 months now we've all lost our citizenship.
AFAIK, residency is now the only other way.
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Anyone know if this still belongs to CRT? https://www.jamesdean.co.uk/property-details/27278478/powys/brecon/canal-wharf
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5 hours ago, Heartland said:
Work has gone on to restore the dam since the "emergency" of 2019. And it still goes on in what must be a very complex reconstruction project,
When will it be finished?
CRT's water management team reckon not until 2026 will the Cheshire Ring be doable by hire boats without any impact because of reservoir levels.
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5 hours ago, Bee said:
A lot to be said for Belgium, reasonable mooring costs and inexpensive licence but to get to the North of Holland its a bit of a slog and some travelling across or along serious commercial waterways. ≥ Ligplaatsen - Marktplaats is a place to start, Marktplaats is a sort of e bay but has a section on 'Water sports' and thence to 'Ligplaats' i.e. lying place or moorings, I'm not sure what the rules and regs are for boats in Holland - its been a while since Bee was there but we did spend a winter in Utrecht and it must have been reasonable pricewise. Sorry can't remember the name of the place, its small but can lift out boats up to approc 10 Tons. Google will help.
Yes, our favourite country, cheap licence although it was increasing by the time we left and some great moorings in many of the cities and out in the countryside. The south was cheaper than the north. Just make sure your boat is less than 20m or it's a no no because of the Es-Trin rules which now rigourously apply to pleasure as well as commercial inland waterways boats. And yes, I know your boat is only 10m but this could be a useful bit of advice for others thinking about escaping from the UK.
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Try Bert Brink in Electra, northern Netherlands. We had some lovely years moored there. https://www.dewaterwolf.nl/
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Had this comment on FB: these occur after a lot of rain,the excess water dilutes the chlorine ( meant to kill them)In embryo form they pass through the 5 micron filtration capacity of our friends at the water board and grow in the pipes. If you have a Brita filter it will take them out,they might gum it up quicker, they are unpleasant but non toxic
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Anyone know if this applies to liveaboard boaters' new batteries? https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/02/01/uk-vat-relief-on-residential-batteries-comes-into-effect/
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1 hour ago, Sue68 said:
When I was involved with Nabo I wasn't allowed to vote because husband's name was on the license but not mine.
Mine does my dirty work for me 😁
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Here's the list of the private boater candidates with their submissions: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/how-we-are-run/the-council/council-elections-2023-24/private-boating-candidates
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Here's CRT's new policy on boater facilities: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/refresh/media/original/48107-customer-service-facility-policy-statement-2023.pdf
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20 minutes ago, MartynG said:
Sure about that ?
The clue's in the name?
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50 minutes ago, Mad Harold said:
Had a thought.
Some years ago I was a member of an amateur orchestra (The Slaithwaite Philharmonic) which promoted itself as The Symphony Orchestra of the Colne Valley.
It was a registered charity, and as such standard tax paying members could covenant their subscriptions, making them worth 20% more.
Could CRT do this with their licence fees?
Anybody know?
CRT is a charitable trust, not a charity. The difference is that it is run as a business but profits have to be ploughed back in to the trust's activities, rather than shareholders. I'm sure Allan can clarify further.
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21 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
This will be in the monthly bulletin and the bi-monthly magazine that members get. So, if you're a member, you will be updated.
@David Mack Sorry, I imagine thats out of date as I didn’t realise it was put out in 2016, maybe @wandering snail can update us all on current NABO thinking and their future plans for canal boaters.
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18 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
Where’s the biggest problem of Continuous Moorers? London? looking on Facebook both NABO and NTBA seam to be more concerned with London Boaters then other areas. Maybe they see a bigger catchment area for potential new members and those of a continuous mooring habit?
This took some finding from over 7 years ago. You obviously have an agenda with NABO and I would be very pleased to have your suggestions and ideas about how boaters can be supported with the challenges we all face in October 2023
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11 hours ago, Lady M said:
Can anyone please explain how donations to Fund Britain's Waterways are eligible for Gift Aid?
From an FBW steering group member: The funds, although overseen by the FBW steering group, are held and managed by the IWA, which is a registered charity.
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1 hour ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
I imagine their new members are the Continuous Moorers around London who think NABO have so much power to force CaRT to do a ‘U’ Turn on their boats without a home mooring licence increase/surcharge.
Are you getting muddled with NBTA??
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33 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
But who’s accounting for the donations? The same accountant who does the IWA accounts?
Sorry cant afford to donate as saving towards for my CaRT licence increase and I won’t be joining the IWA to bail them out of their financial problems, as reading that article they don't seam to have much time left as a credible organisation👍NABO are getting lots of new members. The council meeting today made some important decisions, join to find out and support.
19 minutes ago, Lady M said:Can anyone please explain how donations to Fund Britain's Waterways are eligible for Gift Aid?
I'll ask.
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38 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
“Uncertainty clouds IWA meeting as £450,000 deficit revealed”
Updated 3 October 2023
Been a few posts about the IWA involvement in this new campaign group, as they seam to be doing the Admin for it, then just seen this on Twitter about the IWA’s £450K financial deficit in their accounts. Maybe not the best people to be doing the Admin/Finances??
Link to story below.
Fund Britain's Waterways has a separate from the IWA donations pot with enough in it, at the moment.....feel free to donate though.
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14 minutes ago, magnetman said:
There was a clue somewhere in the press release about this.
Boat licence fees will need to rise above the baseline inflation rate for each of the next five years. In addition, we are introducing a surcharge for boats that continuously cruise and increasing the surcharges for wide beam boats to reflect the greater utility they receive.
The NABO seem to just be regurgitating the first sentence which is a known known.
It is unknown unknowns which are interesting.
(post edited to remove speculation)
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"Boat licence fees will need to rise above the baseline inflation rate for each of the next five years." (CRT)
is uncannily similar to this
"Information from NABO says that surcharge will be an increasing 5% charge after inflation is applied each year, to a maximum of 25% in 5 years."
Please read my reply, THIS IS THE SURCHARGE AMOUNT ON TOP OF THE LICENCE FEE.
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41 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Surely that's the licence increase not the surcharge.
It can't be the surcharge , because you can't apply a percentage increase to something that currently exists. It's a few per cent above inflation and is what we are expecting
It's the ccer surcharge on top of the licence fee increase from April, yet to be announced, that will be increased above inflation.
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Keep an eye here for winter works closures, although they are subject to change at any time! https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/refresh/media/report/winter-notices.pdf
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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
For rather obvious reasons I do know that the DwP will pay for mooring and licence costs if you live on your boat, have low or no income and a limited amount of savings.
https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/homeownership/living_on_a_boat
OK so some people using boats for pleasure and taking advantage of cc while living in houses may be priced out but that's life.
Nobody needs to be priced out of living on their boat if they have recourse to state funds.
I notice they use the term 'continuous cruiser licence', I wonder where they got that from??
Building a Category C narrowboat!
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Only because after Terry Darlington made it sound dangerous in his book (it wasn't), no-one would insure narrowboats crossing the Channel any more. We did take Snail out to sea in Europe a few times where she behaved very well, even in chop. Unlike Chris Coburn who has achieved all kinds of exploits in his very ordinary nb, we had ours especially made with a 15mm bottom plate, ballast cut to fit so they couldn't slide, 67hp engine, PRM260 gear box, large prop (22x22), double sized skin tanks, all portholes, trad stern, tender that was always available for use if needed, easy to tow along behind on the big European waterways. Snail easily makes 10 kts, (we tested this on the Gent-Terneuzen Canal,built in 1823 which is 200m wide and capable of accomodating ships up to 125,000 tons, with a draught of up to 12.5 m) not a lot of use now we've come back to the UK canals. My blog and book illustrates what's achievable.