Rob-M
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4 minutes ago, Midnight said:
CCers are going to have to pay the increased rate through the surcharge. No surcharge would just be a lot easier to manage and C&RT would get more from license increases.
But you said everyone pay the same but it wouldn't be the same unless the fee paid by marinas was removed and added to everyone's license fee instead.
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5 hours ago, Midnight said:
The whole surcharge idea is a dog's dinner and will cause more problems than it fixes. It's going to be a nightmare to administer so I just cannot see how it will be cost-effective. It would be so much easier to manage and better for the budget if we all paid the same (higher) license fees. I suspect surcharges will be ditched before 5 years are up. About time Parry & Co were ditched too.
But would all the ccers be happy paying the increased rate to bring them up to the same level as the home moorers pay through the mooring surcharge?
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Ocker Hill aqueduct crosses the Tame.
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The aqueduct at Salford junction is over the River Tame.
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Probably one of them old unloaded working boats with a high bow.
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28 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
where’s Fazeley aquaduc
1 furlong further along according to canal plan.
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Looks like Tame aqueduct, just before Fazeley aqueduct.
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We've just had one of these controllers installed with a webasto. I followed the procedure in the manual to set the comfort temperatures which is how they manage when it turns on or off. If we want it to stay on for longer then increase the temperature using the up arrow and tap the tick when you have the temperature you want it to turn off at.
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The dates I posted came from The Other Sixty Miles which I presumed was a reasonable reference for the BCN.
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Smeaton lowered the summit in 1786-87.
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1 hour ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
There’s a canal below, train line beside, a motorway above,
and Chance made glass for Crystal Palace,
I knew I recognised it but couldn't think where on the BCN, but must be near Stewart aqueduct.
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1 hour ago, Stroudwater1 said:
Is that on the railway bridge at the Stone locks, T&M?
Yes it is.
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After our Eberspacher packed up a few weeks ago we've had a Webasto installed and the installer told us they don't need regular servicing.
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Where is this roller...?
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We used our Eberspacher just for hot water and ran it for around 2hrs a day if not running the engine as the engine also provided hot water. The pipework from the Eberspacher had a t piece which ran to the calorifier and towel rail one way and the radiators the other, the feed to the radiators could be isolated to just keep the calorifier circuit in use. The Eberspacher packed up recently but had been used like this for over 20 years.
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I've seen a photo of the gabions twisted partially across the towpath.
Here's the photo
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I painted the diamonds on the board in the photo below by painting the board black, then taped up the diamonds using 3mm artist tape and painted in all the diamonds. I then removed the tape to leave a clean black line between the diamonds which was the effect I was after. Then a couple of coats of clear varnish to protect it.
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@dave moore may be able to provide advice.
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1 hour ago, Stroudwater1 said:
There were hire boats at Alvechurch before the marina and ABCs involvement in the early to late 1970s. I’m afraid I can only remember boats Jade and Amethyst but there were a few others. It’s possible that Amethyst was a Norman, Jade was smaller and wooden. They mostly had a blue hull and some had varnished sides of the cabin with some red.
One couple came to travel with their pet monkey. It promptly ran up the flag pole that was at Scarfield Wharf and wouldn’t come down for a very long time.
My parents purchased Hedge Rose which was an ex Alvechurch hire boat. That must have been early 1980's, not sure how long it had been a hire boat. It was a steel narrowboat with wooden cabin. We moored there when the small hire fleet was run out of a shed and a caravan before the A frame building was built.
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There is 50 boats listed on canal plan built by Teddesley Boats.
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Anglo Welsh boat at Great Haywood junction.
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Keep an eye on the weather in the weeks before you are going in case the Severn and\or Avon could go in to flood and prevent you doing the ring.
When I was 16 I took a group of Japanese students around the Avon ring from Alvechurch in a one week hire, as they didn't speak much English it was hard work.
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Finally got round to registering Scorpio and Leo for this year's event.
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Shut that [hatch] door
in Boat Building & Maintenance
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That was my thinking, the impact must have been to the door first and then scraped down the side otherwise the cabin side would be dented and there wouldn't be enough momentum left to cause damage like that to the door.