Leni
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Thank you, Nik. Brilliant! You deserve that wine!
I'm certainly going to copy your 'instructions' out and give them to my son! -
Interesting that it seems to be 'overstayers' who are responsible for the smoke and noise! Apparently 'visitors' don't light stoves or run generators!
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Woke up to thick fog this morning!
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Wonderful! Very well done!
My son is supposed to be re-painting the boat this summer (if we ever get a summer! ) and I shall certainly show him your pictures - and Bizzards useful tips - and hope for something even half as good! -
Gulf stream has moved again, another wet summer on the way, I read in one of the forecasts
Drat! The plan was for my son to paint the boat this summer!
And to think that last week I was outside watering the garden every evening!
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Just had third "accident" despite taking him out every couple of hours, but hopefully will settle down a bit - disinfectant top of shopping list. I did not know you should not let them see you clearing up indoor mess as it encourages them to do it again.
Get some 'Stain and Odour Remover' instead of / as well as disinfectant! It's brilliant for clearing up and removing the pong of 'accidents' (for cats, anyway. I believe it's good for dogs, too). Also, the smell is supposed to stop them 'going' again in the same place. I've found it works very well.
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Great - mooring details received, 30B allocated. Shame we are on the Slough Arm and the boat can't get there. Guess we have lost our £35 booking fee, I wonder if its transferable..... perhaps I should send the bill to CRT.
Just not the same going by bike.
I'm sure you could get a refund! Wasn't Lesd was saying further up this thread that they couldn't get a place because they were sold out in Janaury.? I'm sure there will be somone who would be glad of your place! Do ask the organisers!
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Thank you so much for posting this. Most people buying boats to live on don't realise the downside and there is a downside. I wish you the best of luck and hope you can sort out a mooring. Cart were very helpful to me and have given us a three month mooring (paying winter mooring rates) on visitor moorings. To passers by we are overstaying.
I agree. CRT were also very helpful to us, too. We were allowed to stay on 'winter' moorings - fully paid for - for 18 months until we were able to get a home mooring in the area where my son needs to be for medical reasons. However, as for passers by thinking we were overstayers, CRT gave us 'Winter Mooring' permits to display in the windows throughout the time we were there, so that we wouldn't be 'hassled' by anyone.
I sincerely hope you are able get some help of this kind, Bowten.
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We'll be there, with son & daughter-in-law and grandchildren again, plus their other granny. I hope to actually get to meet a few people this year!
We won't be taking the boat though, since as of this year we have a home mooring a short(ish) walk away!
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This is the quote from the NABO response which I found particularly interesting:
"We believe that the ‘no-return’ rule and the deterrent charge are outside CRT’s legal ability to enforce and we shall be taking further legal advice specifically on this." I'll certainly be watching to see what happens!
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This is the website you need for moorings, both winter and permanent. https://www.crtmoorings.com
I have found the winter moorings reasonable enough, but then I'm 'dahn Sahth' where permanent online and marina moorings cost an arm and a leg (or two)
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Are you the guy with the dog?
Or the guy with the camera?
Or neither?
If I have the correct lock.
Nope! You must have the wrong lock!
I'm the guyess (with the guy with the beard) who directed you to the White Bear pub at Batchworth! -
Hell's bells that's a fat dog!
Cyclists: Last weekend the OH and I were taking a stroll down the towpath, checking out the location of the mooring we've just bought, when a lycra-clad cyclist came up behind us. From a sensiible distance behind, he rang his bell and called out, "Excuse me please" ,and as he passed us, "Thank you" That's all it takes!
Dogs: Recently a large dog, off the lead, chased my son's cat down the towpath and right into his boat! When the dog's owner came up my son 'suggested'
that maybe she should keep her dog on the lead, if it was likely to chase other animals. She replied, "Oh, don't make such a fuss! He's only doing what comes naturally to dogs!" Half an hour later, my son saw the dog-owner running back up the towpath, panting "Have you seen my dog? He ran off chasing a deer!" His reply was, "Should have put him on the lead when I ****ing told you to!" Ron Ts reply[can't work out how to get the reply in a separate box,sorry about that]That's fair enough if the ****ing cat was on a lead!
And, presumably, the ****ing deer?
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But don't they ask for your insurance company name and your policy number on the license application? Surely if they have that a phone call or email to the company would confirm if you were insured or not? Why do they need you to send an insurance certificate?
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And my mum.
She says hello to anyone.
When I grew up I thought she knew everyone
Yet I was taught not to talk to strangers.
Ooh!
You talked to us when you were going through Springwell lock last weekend and we were walking along the towpath! I'm telling your mum of you! -
He chases rabbits.
He chases sticks.
He chases balls.
Above all he chases FUN. Trust him.
I hope you can meet Spike soon!!!
I bet he'd chase a cat too, then! But if he chased my son's cat - right onto his boat - I bet my son would happily follow Carl's advice!
I certainly hope NOT to meet Spike!
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Very good monsiuer Alan
Well anyway put it this way. I walk on the path with my dog and sometimes grandkids/kids. I NEVER give way to vehicles known as cyles and never will. They simply have to stop dismount and push their silly bike or of course on some of the wider paths they can go round without problem.Tim
What, even if they're as polite and careful as the one who passed us last Sunday? I'm afraid that sounds just unnecessarily rude and obstructive to me!
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Surely to 'SORN' (or should that be SOCN?) a boat it would need to be out of the water? And if he can't afford the work needed to get the BSS he won't be able to afford the added cost of a lift-out! Bit of a Catch 22
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Hell's bells that's a fat dog!
Cyclists: Last weekend the OH and I were taking a stroll down the towpath, checking out the location of the mooring we've just bought, when a lycra-clad cyclist came up behind us. From a sensiible distance behind, he rang his bell and called out, "Excuse me please" ,and as he passed us, "Thank you" That's all it takes!
Dogs: Recently a large dog, off the lead, chased my son's cat down the towpath and right into his boat! When the dog's owner came up my son 'suggested'
that maybe she should keep her dog on the lead, if it was likely to chase other animals. She replied, "Oh, don't make such a fuss! He's only doing what comes naturally to dogs!" Half an hour later, my son saw the dog-owner running back up the towpath, panting "Have you seen my dog? He ran off chasing a deer!" His reply was, "Should have put him on the lead when I ****ing told you to!" -
This thread makes it very obvious that you will never be able to please everyone, but I'd like to say thank you very much indeed to John, Steve, Alan (and others) for doing what you have done and are continuing to do. When there is a next CRT Council election, I know who I would hope will stand, and for whom I would wholeheartedly vote!
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Co-operative to buy some brownfield land and build a community marina anyone?
That would be a wonderful idea. However, I wonder if it would work. in recent years BW / CRT have committed to decimate (literally, in the Roman Legion sense of 'killing one in every ten') the towpath moorings since building new marinas, only to find that the marina moorings go unsold while the towpath moorings are becoming so sought-after that they reach the silly prices seen at Batchworth and Springwell recently. It seems people still prefer to live on the cut rather than in a 'floating caravan park', even if it means paying through the nose for nothing but a few mooring rings, if that!
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What has happened to the £2,000 moorings? A 30% increase in less than 12 hours!!!
You should have seen the recent bidding 'war' on those moorings! They went from a guide price of around £2,000 to well over £3,000 - some of them in somewhat less than 12 hours!
As someone lucky enough to have been able to 'win' one, I am acutely aware that there were many people who needed a mooring every bit as desperately as we did, but who were not able to compete at that level. If the roving mooring permits help them to be able to stay in an area where they need to be, I think they will be a very good thing. I will certainly not feel envious, or that the desperate people who get them - whatever the price - have somehow 'got one over' on me. I was lucky enough (with help from other family members) to be able to bid high enough to buy one of the very expensive tow-path moorings. If others get something cheaper, I will just be very happy for them if this proves to be something which solves their problems.
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Our (55ft) boat's stove is in that position at the front, and my son noticed the heat didn't quite reach far enough to warm the bedroom. He has fitted a small fan (out of a computer) in the bulkhead half way down the length of the boat and it seems to be enough to move the warm air to the bedroom now.
I'm certainly going to copy your 'instructions' out and give them to my son! 
) and I shall certainly show him your pictures - and Bizzards useful tips - and hope for something even half as good! 
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