Jerra
-
Posts
7,636 -
Joined
-
Days Won
96
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Blogs
Store
Posts posted by Jerra
-
-
Yeah that's what I'm talking about!!! that IS a drill
Phil
And people complain a ratchet device is too heavy!!
-
On the licence front though I guess watching on a desktop PC does mean you need a licence, but as you do not need a TV on a device that is powered by its own internal batteries then a mobile phone or laptop when nto connect to the mains would seem to me to be OK without a license.
Interesting! It doesn't quite match up to the statement they make on the TV licensing website. My bold!
You need a valid TV Licence if you use TV receiving equipment to watch or record television programmes as they’re being shown on TV. ‘TV receiving equipment’ means any equipment which is used to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV. This includes a TV, computer, mobile phone, games console, digital box, DVD/VHS recorder or any other device.
-
If it is common land then what right has he to fence it off and prevent other commoners from using it?
If it is common land surely he doesn't have a right to "live" on it. I would think permanently mooring against it counted as living on it.
-
Hi,
does anybody know if CART are charging an unreasonably high amount for paying the license fee by credit card? They add on £7.50 for credit card payments. From what I've read they can only charge the cost which is above the cost for other payment methods i.e. if debit card company charges 2 percent and credit card charges 4 percent they can only charge 2 percent as they offer debit card payment for free.
What I don't know is what sort of fees CART are being charged by the credit and debit card companies. That makes it impossible to contact them about unreasonable credit card charges. Does anybody know what they're likely to get charged?
Dave
I will be amazed if CRT are being charged anything approaching 4% for credit cards. Before we retired and closed the shops credit cards were between 1.5 and 2% can't remember the exact figure but less than 2% Debit cards were a flat rate of around 45p. These rates were negotiated by a national professional organisation.
However I would assume CRT has quite a bit of trade over a year and so should be able to get a lower rate than 4%
-
Just to muddy the water a bit more, what is the difference between a repeat which can often be bought as a DVD and catch up TV/internet viewing etc?
-
But - what about letting the paddle down again?
Reverse the ratchet?
-
A combination of things in my opinion-
Because it's a bit more difficult to get a licence when you live on a boat permanently some people don't go through the steps referred to further up the thread (see Carls T's posts) to get one.
Some genuinely mistakenly believe they don't need one if living permanently on a boat,
Some know they need one really but believe that detection is so unlikely (probably very true) that is is worth the risk.
Mistaken belief can be temporarily understood. The other excuses don't make not having a license morally any better.
Its a simple choice jump through the hoops however difficult or don't own a TV set.
I know this isn't a tax but what is the difference between tax avoidance and not buying a license (viewed morally of course not from amounts of money etc)?
-
That's my experience too. I read a fairly amusing article (Tillergraph?) a while back about all the fit and healthy canal wives with their podgy husbands - entirely due to this division of labour! I was forever trying to get my ex to 'drive the boat into the lock' but only rarely would she agree.
When my wife and I are boating with no other crew she has to "drive the boat into the lock" as there is no way I am not doing the locks - I like them too much.
I've never used one of these fancy windlass alternatives but are they really any easier to use than a decent long-throw windlass? It's not as if they turn the mechanism for you? Surely you've either got the strength to do it or not? or do they have a gear mechansim in them?
I think the point is that the arm muscles are stronger for some movements than others so the ability to ratchet back the handle back to the position that works best for you is the advantage.
-
I see photos of peoples boats on this forum taken by the non owner plenty of times and I doubt permission has been granted??
I was wondering what the difference was between those we often see posted and these. One difference I can see (which isn't usual) is no boat names or numbers are visible which makes identifying them a little less likely.
-
You mean something like this
http://nbherbie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/unusual-windlass.html
The only snag I can see is you would need to construct or get somebody to construct the taper.
-
I am not sure that they are their moorings to do anything with. Going back about 6 years they didn't know if they were or not, so they are probably just letting every one think its theirs.
At one time if you used land for 12+ years with out challenge and not paying for it you could claim ownership, would the same apply to moorings?
-
A TV license is a bit like a gun license - you have to have the license even if you don't fire the gun. You have to have a TV license even if you don't watch BBC.
It is a license to watch any TV not just BBC.
-
the irresponsible tug boat was earning a living
I am not sure that entitles you to irresponsible behaviour. Imagine the defence in court when a white van man had caused an accident "but your honour he was earning a living".
-
You really need to go to one of these meetings before passing judgement. Your comments are way off the mark. Unfounded comments are what cause division.
If I had mentioned meetings your comment might be pertinent. However I was trying to make the point that any form of clique/meeting/pressure group/what ever that shows boaters as anything other than a united front was doing all boaters a disservice in my opinion (which I think I am still allowed to have).
I did query why a closed group (for the same reasons as above). I do feel you are trying to read more into my post than was there.
-
So you feel uncomfortable with one section of boaters lobbying why would could they do that would harm other boaters, trying to ensure CRT are aware of the problems some CCers have is hardly going to harm any other boaters. A certain section of boaters in this case CCers having discussions among the themselves hardly spells the end of the Waterway system as we know it.
It is more the principle of one section lobbying that I am uncomfortable with rather than what they might do.
However following some of the threads it is clear that certain sections of the boating community are happier/more unhappy with say restrictions to VMs. I am sure if I spent time thinking about it (which at this time on a Saturday I am not) I could pick out a few areas of conflict between differing types of boater.
I also didn't suggest that it was the end of the world you are rather putting words into my mouth. However I am sure that you could see situations where one section of the boating community could discuss and agree ideas for lobbying which were detrimental to others e.g. hire company owners v CCers
-
I must admit I am not comfortable with one section of the boating community lobbying for its own interests. Apart from the danger of divide and rule there is the danger of one section of the community skewing things in their favour. Perhaps this is the intention?
With all the pressures on use of the canal system I feel it is better for the boating community to present a united front to prevent erosion of of the facilities etc. by other groups, fishermen, walkers, cyclists naturalists etc.
-
2
-
-
I wasn't around when it happened I was out on a job. She came knocking me up at about 6pm in a terrible panic about it.
When I was a kid my mum would revive the open fire by holding my dads News of the World up against it to make it draw and would lose interest whilst holding it then suddenly the newspaper would burst into flames, she'd let go and up the chimney it would be sucked setting it alight and making a terrible roaring noise and blotting out the whole street with acrid smoke for ages. My dad wasn't pleased about his News of the World either although it came out on Sunday he'd keep reading it over and over again all week long until the next Sundays issue came out.
My Dad was (among other things) a fireman and weekly we would put a couple of sheets of news paper into the throat of the chimney and light it. With the same effect as you describe except much less smoke.
I can't remember the chimney ever being swept until my brother (also a fireman) started at age 30.
-
It will help you find some! Having looked at my area it still lists safeway this has been Morrisons long enough to burn down and rebuilt it also misses of at least one recycling point I know which takes engine oil.
-
What is the point of putting the details of all the boats in a private marina into the checking device, when they can't be overstaying or non-compliant with cruising rules?
Probably so that when mistakes are made and somebody claims they have overstayed on a VM etc it can be proved they haven't. Or to establish home moorings i.e. boat x was there n times and they claim it is a home mooring so it must be.
And no-one answered my query about how the checking devices work - do they need a signal back to Command HQ?
I suspect you will need to ask CRT to get a definitive answer to this.
-
Many towns have terraced houses where their lounge windows look straight out onto the pavement. Whilst walking along it would be easy to peer inside and discover how different people live their lives. The normal and courteous approach is to avert your gaze and concentrate on what you should be doing, walking towards your destination.
Whilst walking along these pavements, If I were to copy what some gongoozlers do, stop and purposely stare into people's homes, I would equip myself with a well fitting gum shield in readiness for the ensueing good hiding from one of the home owners!
It's wrong, no matter how tolerant of people and their curiosity a person might be, it's simply bad manners which ever way you look at it (through the windows).
I totally agree which was why I was amazed at the don't blame those who peer into your boat attitude.
-
Thanks for the advice, but I'm happy to take my chances though as I don't intend to have any address, and I'm not going to be forced to by the requirement of a TV licence, If I'm wrong and get in trouble, then I'll have to suffer the consequences.
I know I will get shot down in flames for this but........
If you are unprepared to take the required steps to get an address then do the decent thing and don't watch TV.
It is morally wrong IMO.
-
It beats me why the police still issue 'producers' given they can instantly check stuff at the roadside including,tax, mot and insurance these days.
I enquired of the officer who last issued me with one and he couldn't explain either.
Because there are circumstances where they can't tell if you are insured etc. I was stopped on the M6 because the officer said it wasn't insured. It was but I didn't have the documentation and as my wife dealt with the insurance I hadn't a clue who insured us. He was all set to confiscate the car, but I managed to persuade him to give me a "producer".
Taking in the documentation the next day the officer there explained there is no legal requirement for the insurance company to inform the police that I was insured and mine obviously hadn't!
-
Yes all to often in a patch of garden i have just got ready for planting in or i have already just planted in.
Ah that seems to cast light on my underlying feeling, your earlier posts felt a bit anti cat. It would appear my feeling was correct and you want the cats kept in for more reasons than their own good. Correct?
-
Oooh....very nice. (BTW...How do you get a chinaman's hat to fit?)
Ask what size he takes?
Crazy mooring restriction
in General Boating
Posted
I don't know the moorings in question but as I pointed out earlier if you use land for more than 12 years without challenge or fee it legally becomes yours. I was thinking the same may apply here.