Starcoaster

Possibly not totally on topic?? But this is another marina that has said they will have a no cat policy due to their wildlife landscaping... May be of interest to anyone with a cat looking for a mooring there!

I saw it from the same point of view as Matty has... Otherwise, why wouldn't you just ask the other boaters? Like most of us do if we spot a nice long term or private mooring and want to know how to come by it.

When you get to a bridge hole with something coming the other way and it is clearly your bridge, you have to hang back or stop for a bit just in case the other party is coming through anyway, or you made a mistake and you're not really 50ft closer to it than they are. They are then obliged to wait a while and wonder why you've stopped, before deciding that you are giving them the bridge. However! Just as they lose patience with your mortal dithering and decide to come through, you finally realise that they were indeed waiting for you to take the bridge, and move into forwards. You then both have to stop again. You can repeat this process as many times as you like, ideally until you're close enough to communicate with the crew of the other boat, at which point one of you has to fold and call the other one through. The one going through first then has to go through as slowly as humanely possible in order to ensure that the other steerer has the maximum amount of wasted time, and the additional opportunity to lose control of his hovering boat and fishtail it across your oncoming boat's path. Nobody taught me this one, I worked it out on my own.

Is it your land? If so, and you have not given them permission, then no. Otherwise, that depends on who owns the land and if they have allowed it. This seems obvious to me, so perhaps I have missed some vital information from the op?

The two are not automatically mutually exclusive.

You should have seen my face last week when I gave a 5k-word article a final read through before submitting it to the client, and saw that "prostatitis" had auto-corrected itself to "prostitutes" in an article in which I had used the word about 40 times...

Have you actually tried to light it in case gas is coming out but you can't hear it?

"Star Man seeks Moon Dog, Sun Cat unimpressed..."

My first go on a small wheel-steered boat (Freeman 22) was hilarious for the first mile or so- it was much quicker and more responsive than a heavier, tiller-steered boat, lots of zig-zagging. I was on my own but got to grips with it fairly quickly and found it great fun! When I got it to where it was going and handed over the keys, they turned out to be the wrong set despite my arguing that they couldn't possibly be because they started the engine! Turned out, I'd come out with one of the spare sets from my own boat and the key that opens the padlock of the control panel had just neatly fit in the Freeman's engine ignition and started it with no hassle!!

From an enquiry a couple of months ago, I believe he has a workload already set up for the next year!

Matty!! When I was totally new and Mike was teaching me boater-speak and teaching me how to boat, he sent me up to a lock to ask the dude we could see up there was single handing. I got half way there before I had to go back because I was giggling too much. Mike suggested I try again only framing it as "are you on your own" instead.

That reminds me of the guy who nearly crapped himself when his Staffy ran off at from him at full tilt and leapt at me while I was crouching down tying lines, fortunately for all concerned I could tell that the dog was just enthusiastic and wanted to play, so a potential disaster was avoided. Edited to add, I had the mooring pin's tennis ball in my hand at the time, which I suspect was the root of the problem. Also, I suddenly realised why I never had any tennis balls left on my pins by the time I left a mooring. So, I think we all learnt something that day.

Single handing is best avoided as unsafe...

Blimey that is absolutely shit... You have been horrendously unlucky with all of this so far. Apologies if I have missed this but you mention the prior service and the potential that nothing got tightened, do you know who/when this was, or how to contact them?

"Don't call names!" "Bloody scroungers!" **shakes head.**

....Whilst still asking others to continually spend time and effort playing "fantasy canal" as well!

How many of the people who continue to pander to your continual needy demands for people to critique these multitude of boats that you are never going to buy have you just written off as "scroungers?" Frankly I am amazed anyone is still wasting their time, I can't think of anyone else in recent history who has sucked so much out of other forum members over such a short space of time and yet provided nothing of value themselves. I do hope that should you ever actually be in the position to buy a boat, you haven't used up all of your goodwill in terms of people's time and energy spent answering your questions while you argue back and sling mud. You are once again going off half-cocked with little to no theoretical knowledge and none practical of a framework and lifestyle that you are currently window-shopping as an armchair tourist in, in flagrant disregard of the informed opinions of people who don't just talk the talk, but live it. Don't assume that just because someone lives on a boat that has a non-residential mooring that they do not pay council tax at all, nor that a mooring that is lived aboard but is non-residential is against any form of regulations (council or CRT) by default. Even if you DO have ties of any form (school, jobs, whatever) you totally CAN make a CC declaration and are not forced to have a mooring-CRT can't and won't stop you, assuming that you can and do follow the usual regulations. I would suggest they have worded their statement there badly, but a person/boat of people cannot be refused a CC licence for reasons such as having kids or jobs, only for non compliance, howsoever caused. You continue to talk flaming piles of shite about things of which you know nothing. Now with added name-calling!

Horrible visual of coach being rinsed in blue...