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15 hours ago, David Schweizer said:
Thanks for that Howard, my memory had not failed me.
15 hours ago, howardang said:Kayser Irving was the parent company of a large group of shipping companies - Clan Line, King Line and Union Castle among others, and also managed others. I worked for one of them - South American Saint Line.
Howard
The spelling is Cayzer, which, although it looks foreign is a Scottish family. In the end they only had one ship left, a reefer on charter.
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On 30/07/2020 at 23:02, David Schweizer said:
The original name of our boat was very similar :-
Since then it has been renamed twice, firstly to "Napton" around 1990 and then to Helvetia in 1997 by us. The new owners have chosen to keep the name.
The Tendimus Society was the social club for Union Castle (subsequently British & Commonwealth) crew
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I am not a frequent poster and try not to get into the sort of threads that are being talked about here.
That said my own experience has been that a good number of threads go "off topic" and then degenerate.
Could members consider the use of private messaging as more appropriate than a forum slanging match?
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1 hour ago, Athy said:
I wonder what it was. Its position suggests a lock-keeper's dwelling, but it looks too big and substantial for that. Perhaps an area manager's home?
Originally two cottages.
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3 hours ago, Bewildered said:
Interesting, the one at Clattercote is marked on my Nicholson guide but the other one isn't.
Perhaps CRT should produce an official map showing which winding holes are useable and which are not
Nicholson 2009 edition shows it in the right place, i.e. on the last bend before the bottom lock. On previous editions it was shown in the wrong place
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Thanks! I confused the front door with the back door.
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On 21/03/2020 at 19:13, Captain Pegg said:
The folks in the photo then are likely to be the Sephton family and possibly some of the Simpson’s who married into the Sephton family in two generations and who also had a family home at Tusses Bridge. Both were originally boating families, the former latterly becoming boat builders.
JP
A bit of local family history https://forum.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/forum-posts.php?id=39916
Not too sure how the modern pictures match the original. Could the original picture show the towpath side?
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23 hours ago, Laurie Booth said:
I've always found them very helpful.
Same here.
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Just a thought.
As I understand that Historic England were insisting that, at enormous expense and a long time delay, the recent repairs had to replicate the original design were they unaware of the alterations that had been carried out?
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Latest email from CaRT:
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12 minutes ago, john6767 said:
I was surprised by the CRT email, they have obviously had the nod from the government. A trip to Check the boat on Wednesday then
I was surprised to see it on the previous posting. I have not received one. Are we sure it is genuine as normally emails from Damian are addressed by first name and this one is addressed to "boater"?
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8 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
I would suggest that there is no power to allow the Thames to be closed to navigation. Yes the skipper probably has broken the Covid based rules but I very much doubt the ancient right of navigation can be extinguished with out an act to specifically do it.
The Regulations made under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 do not restrict navigation but do , at present, severely restrict movement of people. Unless the navigator falls within falls in the very limited "allowed" category the boat can navigate but not the navigator. Remote control?
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That was the year that we and our friends hired William Gladstone, from Acton Bridge. We had intended to do the Cheshire Ring in October half term, but a couple of weeks before the start we had a call from Black Prince. The boat needed a refit at Stoke Priors and winter stoppages meant that if we completed our hire they would not be able to get the boat down to Stoke Priors. So with some additional free hire days we agreed to deliver the boat to Stoke Priors and it had to be via the Severn in view of a stoppage.
An adventurous trip including discovering at Stourport that we had no anchor. Not counting the fact that we had been given all the end of season partially full gas bottles and after three days BP had to meet us with a further supply.
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4 hours ago, Athy said:
How do you wash your hands without turning a tap on?
The post relates to an event in a hospital. Hospital taps normally have long "arms" designed to operate them using your arms and not hands.
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On 20/04/2020 at 19:22, Parahandy said:
There is something quite unpleasant about it , another gripe I have is some of these Adverts which advertise nothing other than the Company's name alongside some spurious Covid soundbite . " Now more than ever we are in it together " Sainsburys ?????
Can I counter this with my experience of Sainsburys.
When all this problem started I got an email from Sainsburys telling me that their records showed I was over 70 years of age and would have priority for home delivery/click and collect.
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9 minutes ago, rustynewbery said:
Cropredy Marina have shut the main gate and changed the access code. They turfed out anyone else including the pair of Hotel Boats that were prepping for their cruising season - no ifs or buts. Pissed off several moorers who hoped to self-isolate without thinking about the additional burden on the local surgery but hey s*"t happens. No-one other than staff are present. Your phone call will no doubt confirm this. Take a look at the stats and hope that you and your nearest and dearest don't become one.
Glad to see that the OP has in fact found the Marina more helpful than suggested. The owners (Castle Marinas) are very clear on their policy:
"Castle Marinas has a responsibility to our community and families to enforce the sanctions imposed by HM Government on Tuesday 24th March. To keep the most vulnerable members of our community safe, we are asking all marina users to respect the advice and not to travel to the marina for the time being, unless your boat is classed as your ‘home’."
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On 08/04/2020 at 16:24, sirweste said:
Feel like there's quite a few not bothering with the don't bugger off to your 'holiday home' rule this weekend.
Assume that the rule does not apply if you have just come out of St Thomas' ?
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On 06/04/2020 at 11:49, ditchcrawler said:
I often need to find a post box when out cruising and often struggle.Today thanks to a posting on Facebook I found this site https://postboxes.dracos.co.uk/ it uses your location and shows where the nearest postbox is on a map that also shows canals, roads, lanes and some, but not all footpaths.
Brings back the recollection of asking a passing local where the nearest box was. After giving detailed directions she said "give it to me its much too difficult to find". Nice to meet helpful people.
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No doubt this will bring out the trolls, but, assuming that the two are of the same family (not subject to the 2m rule), and have no symptoms are they not just carrying out their permitted once a day exercise?
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On 18/03/2020 at 09:12, Grassman said:
Yes it's the classification of the vehicle rather than the actual weight of it empty or loaded. The same applies to the 7.5 tonne limits you see everywhere, often in residential areas which are there to stop all but little 'box van sized' lorries going there.
Condemned by their own web site! They seem to have spelling difficulties.
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23 hours ago, Loddon said:
Rural boat gatherings cancelled, trays with sponge and disinfectant at most locks out in the country which you had to step through.
Cant remember much apart from that.
At the start all canals were shut. Movement was only for notified emergencies and you had to contact BW for permission. We were moored out in the country and only discovered the situation when we arrived at Calcutt locks. As our mooring was just below the locks and my wife was due on back on duty (NHS) we were allowed to work down. Later on it became less ad hoc , i.e. your request was logged and then all requests were considered at one time every day to ensure consistency.
I seem to remember that reopening was in stages when the disinfectant appeared.
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11 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Dave, milk comes from cows, goats and other animals. Milk does not ever come from nuts, trust me. How the hell can you milk a nut anyway?
Coconuts?
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19 hours ago, dmr said:
and ....if you value your boat at £60,000 and it catches fire do you expect the insurer to pay £60,000? That's most likely No unless you have a recent professional valuation......then its still probably No.
This illustrates why you need to consider things other than price.
Traditionally marine insurance policies for craft were written on an Agreed Value basis to avoid this sort of problem. In the last few years some, but not all, marine insurers have moved away from this and amended their policy wording to pay market value. There are still marine insurers providing Agreed Value policies.
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Last time I was there (about two years ago) a local CaRT man said that a local resident was complaining about sewer leakage and was trying to get the facility closed down. I assume the present shut down is to establish what is happening but I am surprised if the usual dye testing has not been conclusive.
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Rule one of the COLREGS states, ‘These rules shall apply to all vessels upon the high seas and in all waters connected therewith navigable by seagoing vessels.’
I await the usual howl !