Captain Zim

Happy to dry out on mud in a creek or something

Yes, sorry, I realise there are a few options. What I meant was, of the possibilities are there any particular places people could recommend. For example, I'd love to live on the dart as my family are from totnes, but it seems unlikely that I could cruise and moor in this area. But maybe I could? Boat would be seagoing fishing vessel

I'd like to live in this area on the river. Can anyone advise if this is possible please?

I have heard that just before they caught Al Capone for tax evasion he was about to be done for mooring longer than 14 days in one place

I reckon the people who work with rubbish every day are well aware of the dangers that the rubbish might pose and might even be a bit offended at the suggestion that they are too stupid to consider that someone may have thrown a used Stanley blade away. They are pros. It's a nice thought to consider their safety but I think they've got it covered.

They're designed to run on pressure between 1 bar and 10 bar. Maybe they only really work to the full potential at something closer to the top end?

Mine is the opposite. Max only. I mix cold in at the taps. Anything lower than max and the flame cuts in and out. I called morco about it but unless you can give a gas safe number immediately you can't even get past the reception desk.

Wow! That's an amazing website. Thanks! Eta: godin 404. Bit later than I thought - 1937

Ours is more like one of those that looks like a miniature empire state building. I suppose it would be termed art deco. I don't know what it's called. Thanks for the replies. I was thinking something behind it as a load of heat is pumped out of the back straight in to the cabin side. Apologies if this is not a back boiler, I probably misunderstood the term. I have no objection to a steel box behind but wouldn't I need to be careful about pressure building up? Or could I just make something from copper pipework?

I've got an old Godin stove in the main cabin which is probably 1920's ish. Does anyone know if stoves of this age ever had a back boiler? Or does anyone build custom back boilers? I'd like to put in two or three radiators (no other hot water needed). Thanks

We've had ours 5 years. And yes the manual is shared as it is almost exactly the same which is partly why I thought it might be a good swap for the op. I think we paid around 200 quid for ours new so they've gone up a bit in 5 years.

My g11e works fine on max flame for both full flow and half flow but where I've never got it to work properly is on somewhere inbetween. This means that in the summer on 25 degree heat you usually have to mix some cold in and in winter on 50 degree heat you definitely have to mix some cold in. This is annoying as it's a waste of water but the alternative is explosive ignition. I always thought it was the pump but now I've got one that should be fine as even that doesn't work. I just figured it was a general problem and stopped worrying about it. Eta: the manual says 1 to 10 bar so I also thought maybe for it to work really well you need to e somewhere closer to that higher figure. If anyone had connected one to the mains, that would tell you.

Isn't replacing an existing one okay?

There is also the morco g11e which is the one we use. This model has a higher flow rate and allows you to turn the flow rate down to get a higher temperature. It is almost exactly the same to look at as the d model. Same flue fitting so no worry about bridges. On max flow of 11 litres/min you will get the 25 degree rise, on 5.5 litres per min you will get 50 degree. Which is plenty hot enough. However, we have found you do need a decent pump. We used to have a jabsco par max 4 which was fine so long as you leave a bit of time between turning on and off otherwise you get a bit of a bang. We now have a whale intelligent control pump which is the noisiest pump I've ever heard. On the plus side, at a constant rate of 14 litres per min (3 ish bar I think, can't remember) the heater now works fine. The jabscos are better i think and should do you for most needs. You can upgrade some of them simply by changing the pressure cut in switch.

Would be easier for the drones to read it.

Yeah good shout. It's like trying to explain the offside rule to a non football fan.

To give a further usable example: I am currently on a winter mooring for five months. If the local authority come down and give me a tax bill, I shall not be paying it unless they can show how I am liable for it.

My boat is my home. Therefore the location becomes personal when recorded. As an experiment, call CRT and ask for a named boat location and movement pattern and see what they say. Pretend to be a council if you like. Firstly you are assuming that councils act in an efficient way which is far from the truth. Then you sort of seem to agree with me I think? Probability has nothing to do with it. It's possible and that's what people who make up new rules have to consider. Since my boat is my home, and I have a right to privacy, there might be a violation if my data is shared unnecessarily. It's fine for CRT to log my details so long as they look after them carefully. Eta: I'm assuming CRT would claim that recording data helps to prevent or detect crime since non movement is a crime. So I think they are okay on the data collection front before anyone kicks off about that one. On the other hand they might not be subject to HRA anyway although I think they probably would be as they are administratin such a large network on behalf of the public.

Yes. I meant towpath mooring as in the case of a ccer stopping for 14 days (or longer as is reasonable etc). I know you could probably argue that this is also paid for but what I'm driving at is thy all the others have a contract where residency or use is shown to be permanent(ish). I am a ccer. I am not a permanent resident of anywhere. As for the council tax liability, I am going on a judgement from the court of appeal in respect of chattels and all that nonsense. A ccer arriving in Camden could bot be hit with a council tax bill since he will simply say 'I'm not stoping thanks!' And on he goes. Now it might be that Camden challenge this an it goes for a very long time through the courts, at which point someone wheels out Lord Justice Alan Ward's decision which says 12 months seems about right in the case of boats. Like I said way before, it not guaranteed either way but it'll be pretty good.

But is this in a marina? If it is then I can see how this would be since it would assumed that the mooring was for a calendar year. No such record would exist on the towpath. These examples all seem to be based on known moorings, ie paid for moorings etc. I don't think this is comparable to towpath, until or unless you could prove long term mooring (ie over 12 months).

I know I said I was out but anyway... It doesn't matter whether it's on display or not. You are right that they could could collect it independently but that defeats the earlier point someone made of saving costs by working together. It then goes back to how much this would cost to implement. Once my location is recorded and stored (electronically) any processing of that data for whatever purposes brings it within the scope of the DPA. Yes they might be able to enter into a data sharing agreement (with every single council in England and Wales, at yet more colossal expense) but they would still have to be able to justify the dissemination which I don't think they could as no offence would have been committed. As an aside, if CRT can't justify the use of the RFID in the first place (I would again expect a challenge to this under HRA at the very least) then that's that one out of the window. Just because they are an authority does not mean they can do anything they like. Quite the opposite in fact. There are laws in this country that stop big people bullying the small guy. Everybody slags of the HRA because of europe but you wouldn't believe what it protects us against. ETA: quick question. I thought you were an economics wizz but now I think you might be a cyborg sent from the future to enslave mankind. Am I close?

The first point I said 'as far as I know'. I just have never heard of any such provision and there are people on this site who work in these departments or close to them so I'm sure someone would have mentioned it by now. Why don't you call the council and ask them? You still don't qualify for council tax until after the first year (even thats not guaranteed, its just what one judge said) so all we would have to do is move out from the borough after 364 days. I've never owned a static caravan but I'm sure some of those parks have a similar rule about not living all year round so that it's not a residential dwelling for planning and council tax purposes or something like that) Again, I'm sure someone else on here would confirm it or otherwise. As for the second point, once any organisation collects my data for processing it becomes subject to the data protection act. Further, I am protected by the human rights act to my right to privacy. This means that if the council asked CRT for my data they'd have to have a reason such as a suspicion that I'd broken the law. Now, given that I can't break the law for at least a year, they would have no such right. I could then move, re-set the clock and go on indefinitely. This is a simplifies version of course (noteithstanding that as i and others have pointed out, we are not talking of 300 boats here, we are talking of a very very few). If CRT went on a fishing expedition for my details without the necessary reasons, or a hunch as some would like to think of it, they run the risk of me taking then to court for a breach of the HRA. Private individuals posting pictures on the net is completely different in law. And if CRT were able to put together the necessary evidence from such pictures then CRT would probably be entitled use it. Which just goes to show you shouldn't take a picture of your own boat in the same location every day for a year and then post them all online. Free tip, that one. I know a few people may be wondering why I'm persisting with this one (Alf?) but I think sometimes it is helpful to show why these things can't be done rather than just to say its not worthwhile. There is a very very very small cmer problem in general. I don't even consider it a problem, but if you do, that's your prerogative, but trackers, deals with councils to collect tax, etc, it's not the answer you think it is. The answer is, again, as I have said before: forget about it and get on with enjoying your life. Leave others to live theirs as they want. Eta: for that reason, I'm out Eta: also I think I ought to say for clarity that I'm not a solicitor so this is all just my opinion and interpretation. I wouldn't want anyone thinking I'm offering advice...

Yeah so long as you tell people it's there then there's no problem. But once people know its there they will find it, I guarantee. They like to find stuff and then pull that stuff apart to investigate. It's wondrous really.

It's difficult to answer without a lot more study but I've got a feeling CRT might fall foul of surveillance legislation if the readers were truly covert. Although they are not a public body there is precedent for other large organisations being bound by the same rules regarding watching people without their knowledge.

But there is no provision in law for shorter payments as far as I know. This is why all this is purely academic Once my data is collected it becomes confidential. You can't just share it around for convenience.