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  1. Building a Category C narrowboat!

    in Boat Building & Maintenance

    Posted

    I don't know of anyone who builds Cat C "sailaway" hulls. I imagine the cost is a bit more than a narrowboat sailaway. As above though, the laws of physics dictate that a boat designed for Cat C is going to be boat shaped (and draft), thus not really suitable for canals or living aboard (since the 6'10" width and being boat shaped will render it very small inside).

  6. Bow fenders

    in Boat Building & Maintenance

    Posted

    You don't NEED a sacrificial link in the chain supporting a fender. What you do need, is some way of ensuring the fender doesn't hang up (or pin down) the boat. If it has a slight slope in the top, it will push the boat back if caught going up. And if the chains aren't too tight and its located near the top, it will ride up if caught going down.

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  7. RCD

    in General Boating

    Posted

    2 hours ago, MtB said:

     

    Are you the owner? 

     

    I'm pretty sure you can't sell something you don't own. 

     

     

     

     

     

    I'm pretty sure you can, which is why the regulations say "distributor", "in the supply chain" rather than simply "the seller". In fact, both the true owner and the broker would be "selling" in the broadest sense, because the true owner has offered it and the broker is doing the promotion/negotiation element of the sale.

     

    Tens of thousands of car dealers have stocking loan facilities and they are definitely the ones selling them (not the stocking loan financier, even though they are the true owner while it sits on a dealer forecourt).

     

    15 minutes ago, MtB said:

     

    If "selling" is what a broker does. 

     

    An estate agent doesn't "sell" a house, they find a buyer and introduce them to the seller. Maybe a boat broker does the same.

     

    Or maybe they don't.

     

    See above - they don't use the term "selling", they use phraseology which is more wide-reaching.

     

    Brokers are definitely liable for this.

  8. RCD

    in General Boating

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, Col_T said:

    Perhaps brokers will alter their stance when they find more and more boats being sold privately, rather than through their businesses?

     

    There's going to be a lot (I'd say, a majority) of boats which do have a valid RCD and haven't been sufficiently modified to need a PCA - you know, the "standard" boats which have been built by a reasonable builder and the owner(s) haven't been the DIY tinkering type. Brokers will be happy to sell those kind of boats.

     

    I don't think there will be enough modified and DIY-built sailaways to worry brokers into altering their stance.

  9. Cavalcade and the NBTA

    in General Boating

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Arthur Marshall said:

     

    And saying people can't break the law just because they think they have good reason, is nonsense, because they do. You can say they shouldn't (your moral judgement), but not that they can't.


    I’ll happily admit my moral standpoint is to remain within the law.

     

    If you live outside the law, then life becomes interesting. I guess, “don’t do the crime unless you can do the time” might be a good mantra to live by. 
     

    As a CMer there is always the possibility of licence non renewal, s.8, etc

  11. Cavalcade and the NBTA

    in General Boating

    Posted

    6 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

    …and because you’re an idiot I get a surcharge?

     

    You say one boat after another,

    that suggests the boats are moving?

     

    I am not sure if you meant MtB or the non-moving boater as the idiot. If the non-moving boater hadn't taken the piss quite so blatantly, the observing home moorers might not have become so disgruntled (and felt like an idiot), and the genuine CCer might not have suffered with the CCer surcharge. Who's the root cause of the "issue" here?

  12. Cavalcade and the NBTA

    in General Boating

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:


    but that’s the argument, what’s an ‘area’?

    how far does one have to move to comply to the 14 day rule?

    there’s long been a chase for that answer but there’s nothing but vague answers that have moving goal posts,

     

     

     

     

    It’s not about “how far do I have to move?” That style of question illustrates that they’re after a minimum, so unlikely to be on a bona fide cruise.

  13. Cavalcade and the NBTA

    in General Boating

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

    Well yeah, seems simple,

    but what if there’s no residential moorings available?

     

     

    They can’t break the law just because of a lack of moorings in their particular chosen area.

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  15. More C&RT Dishonesty?

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by Paul C

    I am surprised you would choose to dismiss others’ observations along their path, because it’s one of those things that’s impossible for one person alone to gather a wide view of.

     

    You’d either have to accept their views or concede you don’t have an overall picture.

     

    As I said before, what exactly is “the problem”?

  21. Clicking when trying to start engine

    in Boat Equipment

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Lizette said:

    Hi Thanks for responses,I am not sure what "bar" over the engine is?


     

    it means to turn it over by hand and feel how it resists.

     

    6 hours ago, Lizette said:

     

    I did look through manual and on line to find possible part with issue. 

    That’s good but if you’re guessing at parts and replacing them instead of diagnosing the issue, it will get expensive.

  23. Clicking when trying to start engine

    in Boat Equipment

    Posted

    On 13/04/2024 at 16:07, Lizette said:

    ..........

    The starter motor was thoroughly cleaned and tested and was working off the boat. Tested with someone else's battery.All fine and dandy until I returned it to its rightful place .Although it's no longer clicking it isn't starting the boat. 

    It's a mystery! Any next move suggestions?

    ........

     

    46 minutes ago, Lizette said:

    Just an update on starter battery and starter motor .All seemed fine battery was charged up ,I double checked starter motor . 

    Installed and not working . We used a booster and tried to start it ,we saw smoke coming from under the engine and smelt burning.

    We think it is a s solenoid with one lead coming from it. We think it goes to fuel injection but unsure at the moment.

    I have no idea if this is any way connected to my existing problem .

    I shall attempt to get under and take photos.

    I am looking through manual for engine and attempting to identify it at the moment.

    I don't want to give up but maybe a call to RCR is inevitable. 

     

    If the above two posts are to be taken as correct, then it points to something wrong with the installation of the starter, and/or a (partly) seized engine. Using the principles of checking what's easiest first, I'd suggest next step is to bar over the engine. (If you can't do this, or you don't know what a "normal" engine should feel like for resistance when its done, there is little value in yourself doing so).

     

    The other possibility - incorrect starter installation - has so many variables that its not worth going into them just yet (without sight of the engine it would be a guessing game).

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