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My insurance only covers me amd the better half if I lend it out to family and neither of us are with the boat then it is not covered, as per my policy. Talking more about damage to other boats or property than the actual boat itself, Potential damage to plastic boats is quite high

Trento this is from their site It is important that the distinction is made between contribution and hire. There are no insurance complications if 2 friends share a boat and it’s running costs, or indeed if a crew member buys something for the boat. However, if the arrangement were more rigid, say 1 weeks use = £500 and particularly so if you recruited half a dozen Boat Buddys, then that contribution could be viewed as hire. This is from the site , it does not mention paying more insurance or even telleing your insurance

I like if it floats its a boat, I know something that sometimes floats but no way I am riding on it

I have a feeling that the only winner if he had a few takers would be the site owner at £25,00 a time.

I presume you did not read the info page then,

http://www.boatbuddys.co.uk/ Not sure about this I can see problems, The main 1 being insurance think if an insurance company got wind of this during a claim they would not be amused.

We quite often moor on the offside overnight,never had a problem although its usualy when we have been moving all day and want some piece and quiet tucked in some trees is really peaceful.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Live-Steam-Powered-Full-Size-Canal-Boat-VERY-RARE-/321122191248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4ac45fc790 quite fancy this but better half says no.

The weird thing is I really like rats we had a couple as pets when my kids where younger very intelligant would even fetch and bring back a screwed up piece of paper, one of them used to spend the evening perched on my daughters shoulder. (If rats Perch think sit would have been better lol) I used to know a boater who wee'd in his sink and had a plastic bag in his toilet when full put it in dog waste bin, sold his boat pump out tank very clean.

Not an urban myth but was put out by I think the publicc health cannot be bothered to look it up, mainly to try and teach people to be more responsible with waste disposal, but like i said I worked on a farm where rats are for ever present no matter what you do. Off post quite a bit so I apologise, but I stand by my we should be careful what we put in the cut, bad enough in the weed hatch trying to remove someones disgarded item without it being covered in dog poo, never mind the enviroment.

Generaly speaking any animal that feeds on vegetation only tends to produce good fertilizing poo, meat eating animals tend to produce poo that can be more harmful to humans, although e-coli and the likes are found in all animal excreements, So perhaps human poo from a vegetarian is different lol not sure on that one. The terrm vermin comes from any creature that can reproduce quickly and is harmful to humans whether it be by infestation or the carrying of bacteria again harmful to humans, and also cannot be wiped out by us , really you got to think natures pretty clever we think we are so good messing with things and making things supposably safer, when there are creatures like the rat, that at any time they reckon you are no more than 3 foot away from one, despite all the poisons we have used trying to get rid of them are still there and breeding, land fill is a crap idea where I dont hold much faith in climate change and the such like dumping our waste into holes is going to come and bite us big time, the solution sorry dont know wish I did.

Carit I am with you 100% on non-compostable bags but the problem with putting it in the canal is really they are a slow moving waterway and there are a lot of dog walkers using the towpaths and a lot of boats with dogs on them making an awful lot of dog poo if everyone did it, also last year the amount of times we got dog poo on our shoes when picking fruit from the hedgerows was frequent.Rats eat dog poo I do know this for a fact not sure what other animal does except of course dogs. The rock dove and rat would always be a health problem even without human intervention. Of course I do believe that because we have become obsessed with cleanliness anti bacterial wipes for everything children are brought up in a enviroment where the slightest bugs down them , I have no medical evidence to back this up just hear my mum saying a bit of muck wont hurt you and on the farm where I worked can remember eating my sandwwiches on the back of the muck spreader. But I still stand by dog poo should go somewhere other than the cut or hedgerow, would it be possible to have sunken bins for it I can understand then that it would degrade naturaly by the way I have had dogs and cats now cats are a real pain in the end we now have a itter tray in the garden. Hands up to where the cat poo goes in the bin landfill so I probably just as bad, I give up.

You are serious then, thats its ok to dipose of dog poo in the cut and in the hedgerow, oh well I give up if you cannot see the problem with that well......... all carnivorous wildlife are carrion feeders given half the chance neveer seen any proof that they carry disease that we have given them,

Any meat eating animals poo contains harmful bacteria and should be disposed of properley, so to take that atitude is really bad and your dog poo should be cleared and bagged, the rubbish we feed wildlife whats that about.

narrowboat to match http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BARGE-NARRW-BOAT-39-FOOT-OUT-OF-THE-WATER-UNFINISHED-PROJECT-/261201268022?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cd0cf0d36

This I am not sure http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WALKING-BOAT-HOUSEBOAT-/111039401106?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19da76cc92

I love that really made me laugh

Think if I took it on a divorce would quickly follow

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1898-71-FT-HUMBER-BILLY-BOY-BARGE-MV-SAIRA-IDEAL-HOUSE-BOAT-PROJECT-NEEDS-WORK-/380594985532?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item589d3a9a3c Keep repeating to myself I have no money, its a rust bucket, I do not want it, well I could just have a look,

I think the problem is the original posters heading,sounding like the great boating divide, if it had said there is a meeting to dicuss ccers and their views, I would for one not attend but would look eagerly forward to the postings about how the meeting went. I intend to be a ccer on retirement at the moment I am doing up my retirement home, so the outcome of this may seriously affect my plans, but because I have not had the experience and problems of ccing would leave it to the ccers to tell their problems and expectations, with a meeting like this it must remain for the purpose of what it sets out to be, and I am sure other non related ccing problems would rear its head and use valuble meeting time on another subject.

Wait a minute possibility of free mooring, charging people for turning a blind eye, this volunteering dont sound that bad, Would I get to carry a clipboard and wear a fluorescent jacket , if you say a hat then thats it where do I sign.

I am also in a marina but I would not do the job, although we aall know for sure someone will do it more likely a non boater, but it will appeal to a certain type, I hate the way there seems to be classification on the type of boater you are, personaly I love narrowboats and always have 1st one when i was 19 I am now loads and loads older, and I generally like other people of the same views, whether they are a ccer canal bank moorer or marina dont make a jot of difference to me.

And why ???

Just to let you know Forgot the link http://www.thompsons.law.co.uk/ntext/asbestos-danger-river-canal-boats.htm

I have been thinking on the same lines, but wonder, now I know I am drifting possibly into a fantasy world , that new canals could be built to go towards flood management okay I will go back to sleep now.