Arthur Marshall

But he didn't say a company like Currys. Most s/E traders are companies. You just need to find one. And he doesn't need to be local, either as long as you pay travel.

I'm sure my old engineer who unfortunately is nowhere near you would have ordered your cooked turned up with a mate, and done exact what you want. At a price which would have been two blokes work for a day and carriage and disposal costs. The logical thing to do is just ring everyone you can think of up, tell them what you want done and get a price. It's obvious on here that nobody knows anyone who fits the bill

Mine sometimes seems to squeeze grease out of the stern tube. Looks a bit like that.

She's not the one moaning about having to stay local for work though. She seems happy bumbling along every couple of weeks quite legally, just worried that it might become unaffordable. But hen she could have bought a perfectly good boat for half thevmoney and had a bigger emergency pot.

I think the interesting bit is this: "At present, there are 5,725 open enforcement cases. Although not all of these relate to itinerant boaters, it means that roughly one in six boaters are currently facing investigation. The majority of these cases have been opened because boats have been spotted on the water by the charity without a licence. However, 826 relate to itinerant boaters who have been refused a new licence because the CRT was unconvinced that they were compliant with the bona fide navigation requirement. A further 429 boaters with a valid licence face action for allegedly failing to comply with this rule." Considering the number of boats that hardly ever leave their marinas or moorings (which would be 60% of those on my mooring), that's a huge proportion of those that do, and probably a majority. There appear to be a hell of lot of people who think that they only have to obey rules that suit them while ignoring others, and no doubt cursing at others who just pick different rules to break. Doesn't surprise me at all. There are plenty of apologists for rule bending on here.

Why would anyone spend 170 grand on a boat without doing any research, unless they're an idiot? If you spent that in a house you'd expect to have searches done so you were aware of any oddities. At least when i bought mine I knew enough to sort a mooring out first, if not much else. But surely you'd work out whether the t&cs were going to make life difficult for you. I hate to hark on, but this is the third thread where it appears someone is complaining that the rules they signed on to shouldn't apply to them because they don't like them - one as mentioned by Alan above. I think people are getting atupider, possibly because of a diet of YouTube fantasies and prettied up TV shows.

Well, it's already been stated on another thread that it's fine to break a law if you think it doesn't matter, so I don't think that'll deter the drone flyers.

Some seriously muddled thinking there, but it needs to be as it's largely about self justification and hypocrisy. It really isn't up to an individual to decide whether legislation matters or not. The fact is that it is there. Like speed limits, you can decide to ignore the bits you don't like, same as everyone else, but it's not much of an argument in court. Now, my personal view is that the law is largely an ass, and one is perfectly at liberty to break any that one wants, AS LONG AS YOU ARE PREPARED TO TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES. But what you can't do, once you've made the decision that you're only going to follow selected bits that suit you, is decide that other people haven't got the same right, just because they break bits you think they should keep. That's blatant hypocrisy. There's a lot of it about.

Probably because a CRT spotter got killed not long ago, doing just that. As far as RFID goes, why, when people (including you) won't even follow current rules by displaying a licence, do you think they'll keep a device on their boat? Or, like so many others on here, do you believe that everyone except yourself should obey the law and be punished if they don't?

Un-anticipated? By CRT maybe, but I seem to remember it being well expected by members on here. Obvious to anyone who knows anything about boats, but not to the CRT hierarchy.

I believe a lot of the approved stoves have a vent in the base that means the draft can never be closed right down. It also means that they won't stay in overnight and use twice as much fuel. If you get one, you have to find the vent and block it shut. Daft idea.

Seeing as how it's at least twenty years old I don't think it complies with anything except keeping me warm.

I don't understand this post. House coal is filthy stuff, highly polluting and stinks as well as being corrosive to chimney and wherever it drips on the boat. I have the same stove, use bog standard excel smokeless and it stays in for weeks on end. I did drill some holes in the ash pan door and fit a spin wheel so I could control the draw better.

I agree. The dog owners very rarely crap on the the towpath. However, as soon as you let your dogs off the lead and run around, you have no control over where they crap, round the corner, someone's garden, half a mile behind or beyond you. Out of sight is out of mind appears to be the dog owner's mantra.