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It must be something to do with CaRT???? but if you click on the CaRT logo you would think it would go to the main CaRT homepage, but I’d doesn’t, also seen no links on the official CaRT site, or any news flash on Boaters updates.

Is this for real. CaRT now doing designer clothing for the fashion conscious boater/Canal user. https://canalrivertrustfashion.co.uk/collection/mens/

He certainly seams to have qualifications.

Don’t forget he was a Boat master back in his youth, now he’s just is a Master b*€ter with A levels. IMO.

They didn’t exist when he was born into boat life on the cut 30 something years ago, just like you didn’t need a license back in the day 15 years ago. So why should people bother with those now.

And your surname isn’t Mitty, as he comes across as a right Walter.

Your still talking b@ll@x, like most of the stuff you’ve wrote IMO. A Boatmasters usually lasts 5 years, so yours along with your “A” levels aren’t worth the paper they’re written on in regards to living on the Canal, so absolutely no idea why you said you had qualifications?

Things have obviously changed since he was a kid working the boats, all those 15 years ago, when licensing your boat wasn’t really necessary.

Try reading what you previously wrote, your a 30 something and aren’t really in the know as you’ve not been near a canal in 15 year and never was an expert. Now your saying something different. I obviously know more about the Canals then you, as I know what paperwork you need and how it works and I don’t need to come on here asking basic questions, like you with all your Canal life and qualifications😂what qualifications? I suspect they’re all out of date as you say you have never been near the canals for 15 year😂😂😂😂

Trade plates, those red plates you sometimes see in boats. Not given out to anyone, with various requirements to adhere to. Not for the general public.

I think your talking b@ll@x, with regards to the licensing, I’ve lived on the Canals full time coming up to 15 years and have alway had a license like the majority of people I’ve met living on them in that time. You say your out of the know and we’re never in the know, so your a 30 year old something that knows sod all about the canals or living on them.

I wonder what area his Dad was a working boatman on, Midland/Southern canals or around the Northern waterways/Trent?

I doubt the OP is genuine, his Dad was an old boatman from the 60’s so I imagine he’ll be getting on in life 50/60 plus, straight away he’s started a thread that he knows will start an argument, maybe this is what he’s after?

And in the end he lost his boats I believe, maybe the OP can take note, that you can’t boat without the relevant paperwork.

Maybe some people have got their wish and Tony Dunkley has risen in a different form and member name, as I remember him having the same care free approach to licensing, until it cost him thousands in legal fees/court costs and the loss of his boats😂 if I remember right.

Are there any tax/financial incentives being offered by the Govt. to persuade entice companies to change their company cars to EVs? Or anything electricity company’s are doing to encourage charging points, in regards to cheaper KwH rates?

As you say all dependent on spec, if @jpcdriver could let us know boat builder and age we may get a more accurate figure to what’s out there with regards to pricing, with the rapid rise in steel and material prices, if his boat is even a year old his pricing is irrelevant to today’s costs.

Would be interesting for a comparison with diesel and electric, have just met a couple who have just bought a new 60x12ft Euro Cruiser £140K, if your looking for a home on the water you would buy one of these and not a £250K electric. Then again it’s horses for courses. Who was the builder and what engine was it? It’s like everything you can spend £150k or £300K, it’s all down to what you want, shell, engine, fit out standard, equipment????

Bollards or not, how many people need a £250K electric boat? The people I see buying these boats are far from your average, they are wealthy people with expendable cash. Why in all honesty would you spend that amount of money on a Narrowboat? People are more then happy to spend £50K on a boat to enjoy the canals, electric boats will be few and far between for a lot of years to come, no matter how many Bollards are put in, it’s down to that they are basically too expensive.

On this day today Mexborough S&SY and an early 20th century view, past Market Street boatyard to the flour mill, that is still there.

Nice to see a realistic view from someone who will soon have an electric boat. I’ve been out on my boat the last few months and have seen no electric boats on the canal, I have seen lots of new boaters and boats but not one electric boat(apart from passing Peter’s moorings). I think it is the cost of an all electric boat that people are put off by, but I like your point and it’s true, that the people who are buying them are more interested in silent boating then the eco/save the planet side and this is more of a conscious thing. There was a new buyer of an all electric boat, who visited the boat regular during the build, driving hundreds of miles in her large diesel car, also when moved aboard drove hundreds of miles visiting family/friends, they still have the car being looked after by relations. But she says she bought the boat for silent boating and the environment, maybe it will offset her diesel car and help her conscious from all the years she didn’t think about the environment, like many older retired people.

That’s not a GRP. Are you after a boat to live on or just for leisure use? Have you got a photo or link to the one you have bought?

Did you not fancy a GRP? Surely you could of got one over there?

You wouldn’t buy a £29K lemon, that’s why people get advice and use a surveyor for. If it was a lemon you walk away, especially if it needs over plating.

JW supplied the standard shell, which would of been for a conventional engine install, hence diesel tank, there is a Beta generator, not used for propulsion, which will more then likely be supplied from the diesel tank. This will be used to charge the batteries.