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  2. CRT Commission

    in General Boating

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    2 hours ago, IanD said:

    Except that the W3W app shows your location and the destination and which direction it's in and how to get there, like any navigation app does -- I've used it to find people on a festival campsite... 😉 

     

    There you go with helpful factual information again.  You'll upset those that don't do joined up thinking ...

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  8. CRT Commission

    in General Boating

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    21 hours ago, IanD said:

    or just under 1 femto-light-fortnight per litre, if you're a metric astrophysicist.. 🙂 

     

    Can't you just use microfurlongs per fortnight like everyone else does?

     

    * Except bridge hoppers obviously, as that's too big a unit for measuring their distance travelled! 😉😁

  11. CRT Commission

    in General Boating

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    Just now, Tam & Di said:

     There were, and as numbers grew it was becoming a problem so BWB tried to introduce the idea in the the 1995. It was thrown out at the committee stage.

     

    Do you know approximately how many - dozens, hundreds, thousands?

     

    The commission report says in 2025 there are  ~35000 boats and 35% of those (~12000) say they are liveaboards. 

     

    As these numbers were taken from the CRT Boater Satisfaction survey I suspect there are some living "below the radar" who didn't state they were liveaboards.

  18. CRT Commission

    in General Boating

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    3 hours ago, Iain_S said:

    The obvious snag being that the "independent charity" will rapidly become Baton Twirlers Mk.2

     

    Depends on who is involved.  There's at least two names that immediately spring to mind as "shouldn't be allowed anywhere near it" candidates ...

  21. CRT Commission

    in General Boating

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    37 minutes ago, frangar said:

    I wonder how that is going to be received by various parties?

     

    The NBTA will blow their top at a guess.

     

    Recommendations for enforcing specified distance travelling per fortnight and per year, explicitly stating that "broken down" isn't a valid excuse, high demand surcharges for honeypot areas (esp. London and the western end of the K&A), actual use of the power to tow non-compliant boats away without the whole section 8 court palaver.

     

    CRT will also sulk about it as they've been called out for their customer engagement processes and not having thought through some of their policies.

     

    About the only thing the commission missed is that line in the byelaws about needing the permission of the board to use a boat as a dwelling place, but they did note that allowing boats to overstay in a fixed location is against charity law because it provides a private benefit for the individual(s) concerned.

  25. Mess and Services

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    19 hours ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

    This from a notice about a pump-out not working:

    Closest waterway: Leeds & Liverpool Canal
    Starts at: Johnsons Hillock Mess & Services
    Ends at: Johnsons Hillock Mess & Services

     

    DAK what is this mess?

     

     

     

     

    There's a proper "mess room" in the building that contains the elsan and the (now closed) shower and toilet.  Used by CRT staff and vollies as a canteen / break room / storage.

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