Old git

I shall be doing a speil tomorrow for all to read. Today i have to take my beloved out as its an important anniversary. Old Git

Do they change position like cyclists in the peloton or penguin in a storm stood in a pack so all taking turns in easier or warmer positions ?

Oh Happy memories In the late eighties /early nineties we were often found having a few in there, Before any boat safety system came along there was an old boy with two twenty foot ish plastic cruisers joined together back to back with a waterwheel for propulsion at the rear of one of them. He was often moored there at weekends. Many pints were consumed, and when my new pair are mobile I freely intend to come and taste the beer again for a session or two on my way around the system. Just to check if you are correct about the good ale.

Its the same for ducks swimming too ! 39degrees.

Now you are putting the horse before the C&RT in your thinking ! Sorry.......Just a poor joke .

In the eighties I had a yam xs1100 that weighed 230kg in the front well deck, which to get on and off i cut the gunnel down to the water tank nearly and hinged it , just like the disabled access boats you still see about that also have a ramp built in. Any reasonable welder/fabricator shell builder could do it for you, or buy a small fold up moped in a suitcase if you want a smaller bike that you can nearly lift on and off. Just dont drop whatever you do in the cut as its a bugger to get them out and repair ! And dont ride on the towpath please.

There are hundreds of opinions going to appear on this from :" Let everyone live where they want for any length of time in peace" all the way to "you should be moving again and again in one direction to be a continuous cruiser not a continuous moorer which are hated by all". And thats THE PROBLEM. US. So many opinions appear here we will never pull together, but the Hire Industry has got together and managed to get together (or so it seems to humble me ) with the hiarachy of the IWA to form an alliance of "we want things our way". So getting the best moorings (closest to the pubs shops etc) available for our overnight stoppers on the holiday boats.......Mainly in the warmer summer months admittedly........we mess up there businesses and cause delays to their customers at locks etc etc. A viable system has to be found to suit all not just a greedy few........on any side. So we have to change thinking and be savvy or in todays world we the foolhardly will lose out in a big way. So what now ?

Thanks Sue, Thats what I intend doing . I can ask specific sensible questions if people send them to me and i am allowed the time to ask ! Personally I think there are so many different views on here we are totally not united on any front that it will be a difficult to have a " voice" for the people. If the ones who shout loudest and longest had contacted C& RT first then perhaps they would be there not me, but I feel as an ex boat builder and 10yr livaboard, who still owns a share in a trad 58 footer and is about to build a new pair to live on and eventually CC I have a fair knowledge of the working of the waterways, as my first wooden boat was bought by me in 1981. So lets wait and see what we find out ? And I am sorry this is the night before but being in hospital stopped my internet access, but any questions people ? Old Git. Aka Jerry.

And I am the other. I sent an email to them and as I was first to ask I got the space. Old Git

Its me, Old git..........Sorry been in hospital ......Now home and able to go tomorrow so inbox me with things to discuss/ ask And I will report back. I may not live aboard at present but did for years and as soon as the new one pair are built i will again , but I still own a share in a 58 trad that is used lots. Old git

No problems with Continuous Cruisers, its the Continuous Moorers on the towpath that nark me, when they dont move for months on end from the best spots near the pubs or other useful spots. But just my opinion ! Old Git

Hello all, I do find this all very funny, but the "do let us know when you decide to move". Comment could apply to all those CM ers , who bridge hop at best which if you read Ca RT blurb is not allowed. If we All paid a fair amount it would improve the coffers and we may just get a better system for all of us to use and enjoy. Just an Opinion Old Git Ps......Build heaps more marina's please, I do not care if they are used or not but it will help keep the water levels up as more water per pound in theory.

So quickly, You fool we have been arguing this for 3 yrs in the Chilterns........ i have two neighbours within a mile and then just views across a totally rural valley........all Green belt, Until this dam thing happened.

The same place as me........OUT OF POCKET. And unable to sell and it wont be worth what you paid for it ?..........Write to your MP lots now.....join Stop HS2 Old Git

Yep, I am totally pissed off with this. This house I bought 9 or ten yrs ago , and rented out whilst abroad until 3 yrs ago , it was to keep into my old age after retiring from boating, and As it was in the middle of nowhere in Green belt i felt sure it would be a worthwhile deal and be what i wanted, like all narrowboater.......Peace and tranquility. Now my £330k investment and hundreds of hours work is worth about £80k less according to my local estate agent, and near impossible to sell for years. But considered to be to far from the line to qualify for a pre HS2 valuation buy out by HM govt. Not even a payout for the valuation difference they do not care. I have sat in a house in France the same distance from the TGV with roughly the same elevation......... It was hell. So if one of you is a deaf trainspotter I have the ideal house for you. But not me I cannot wait to move onto the new pair and sail off and forget this nightmare until I am to old to care ! Old Git

No.........Read last autumn statement from the Treasury , They say we cannot afford it and the profitability is suspect. They are financial experts not Politicians on a campaign. Spend the money on the Hospitals that we need Only by a bloody fool donkey........does the hat fit ?

How Wrong can you be , There is a distance of 2670M from our house to the centre of the tracks proposed route, we are 22m higher than track level and there is a slight dip in between us and it , all arable fields We get nothing nowt sod all not a bean........Except the noise when its open. And I still am not allowed to build my detached garage as I have a house in a Green belt area. Now go and actually read the real facts before spouting off........ I will never be able to sell this house which at present is in beautiful Green belt.........Which is why I bought it. Hs2. The biggest white Elephant in history ! IT STINKS. and it is not Carbon neutral or Green in any way, its Co2 output will be horrendous.

Definitely, Thats space for 3 x average narrowboat moorings, water and power cannot be far away so for less than about £8k each a mooring with parking and room for a shed or two, thats at a price of only a couple or three of years marina payments ! Absolute bargain. Who wants to join together and buy it ? Old git

Its already GREEN BELT.......... Go down to Kent and listen to the Eurostar trains at high speed, audible 4 miles from the high speed line any evening, It will be worse than that !!!! Want it now ?

You can get any photo or picture you like turned into wallpaper to fit whatever size wall you like, one of the missus kids has a wall done, and its bloody fabulous.

i have seen a few plastic tanks rupture from knocks/old age/brittle joints.........Never seen it happen to a stainless steel one welded by a coded welder, and i have lived with a steel integral for years, the painting was a pain. How deep are your pockets is where it rests quite often My new pair will have stainless tanks as they are with me till I am finally to old to get on board ! Old Git

Wouldn't have thought so as they will both rot away at the same rate as the water doesn't know the difference, you need something to create A positive / negative bias so the right bit rots . Magnesium works with steel , you will have to search, Try looking at a Sea Otter add they are made of Aluminium so must have anodes. Or a damn good paint? , perhaps some one here has a similar set up. I have only owned wood or steel boats. Old Git