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10 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Erecting blue signs? Painting lock beams which makes them rot faster? Teaching fishing?
So just to confirm, you'd prefer the volunteer that usually does the angling taster sessions to repair the lock instead of waiting for the reactive repair & maintenance team?
Odd.
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1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:
And now for the next URGENT lock repair, December!!!!!!
Its so urgent to avoid damage to the lock gates that it will wait for 70 days!!! I don't believe it.
So which current job would you suggest stopping work on so they can do this instead?
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12 minutes ago, Brian jarrett said:
This proposed increase and the surcharge are being justified on the flawed basis that we, the continuous cruisers, use more of the system and facilities than boats with a mooring !
You seem confused. The licence fee above-inflation rises apply to all classes of licence not just CCers.
If you don't want to pay the CC surcharge, get a mooring. Simples!
2 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:My proposal would be a repeat of the IWA request some years ago to increase the 'CC licence' to 2.5x the cost of licence for a boat with a mooring.
Thank goodness you've left then
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35 minutes ago, magnetman said:
My old Seagull smoked like that too!
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2 hours ago, IanD said:
I can get tangled up in weed on the L&L instead if they haven't cleared it... 😞
There's been a contractor on a weed boat for the last couple of days above Johnson's Hillock, clearing a lot of the stringy stuff out.
Presumably they'll be doing or have done more areas too.
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47 minutes ago, IanD said:
fees will go up, there will be a CC surcharge, and widebeams will be charged more -- all as predicted.
And the electric boat discount remains.
So ideally you'd want an electric narrow boat with a home mooring.
Oh, wait ...
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1 minute ago, IanD said:
Thanks for the warning -- what was wrong at the Bridge, recent comments look quite good? Any other good mooring suggestions between there and Wigan Top Lock?
Lousy beer. Not been back this year so no idea if it's better/worse/under new management/turned into flats ...
Depends on what you want from a mooring. I quite like mooring near the golf course at Haigh Hall, but it's a mile and a bit to anywhere if you need anything. If you're dashing for home you'll not have time to amble around Haigh Woodland Park anyway.
The VM at the top of Wigan Flight is as good as anywhere if you want a quick start the following day. There's also a bus to Wigan Central (https://wigancentral.bar/) if you mistime it for the festival.
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Just now, IanD said:
Hmm, interesting, Adlington is a possible stop -- was thinking of the Red House VMs and the Bridge Inn, but Adlington station is only a five minute walk away...
The Bridge was dire last year, not been back since.
Chorley has a better selection of alehouses and good pubs, and is only another stop ...
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4 minutes ago, IanD said:
Should be plenty of beer on board... 😉
P.S. Beer festival is also nowhere near the canal, assuming it's the Bolton one!
Train from Adlington, two stops ...
Yes, Bolton Wanderers ground. Usually around 150+ different cask ales as it includes the SIBA North West regional competition.
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On 17/09/2023 at 18:32, IanD said:
Wigan will be second week in October
Shame that, there's an enormous beer festival at Middlebrook from the 12th ...
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I've never really understood this heating by calendar thing that some people do. If it's cold, warm the place up a bit.
Admittedly there are some who run heating/stove just to avoid putting a jumper on, but when you're considering salopettes it's not being a wuss to warm up! You're not obliged to keep it in until April just because you lit it once.
I have seen some people stick a couple of large candles inside the stove to get the cheery flicker on a dank day. I might have to try this to see if it fools me into thinking it's warmer ...
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4 hours ago, Mike Todd said:
And usually so close to the bridge that it would take a snail to be that long getting there.
Stop canoe/kayak, climb out, either pick up boat or deploy portage trolley, walk to other side of bridge with canoe, put back in water, climb in again, set off.
I challenge you to do this in under 2 minutes for a standard L&L swingbridge. That's what you are calling snails pace.
In practice of course, most canoes/kayaks/boards just lie down and go under the bridge if possible, but some of the bridges have big girders and sticking out bolts underneath them.
It's a liability CYA exercise from CRT.
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12 minutes ago, Jon57 said:
Lots of these signs on the Leeds Liverpool just before most of the decommissioned swing bridges. Totally pointless.
Not all the "decommissioned" swingbridges are decommissioned. Some of them are usually left open but the landowner can and does swing it when wanting to use it.
Admittedly the signs are also near the ones with trees growing through the bridge deck too. The vollies who erected them did ask what the point of some of them was, but were told to do them anyway!
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42 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Thirty million people can't be wrong, or can they?
Assuming that's the number of Gregg's customers, it suggests that the other forty million or so in the country don't ever go there ... 🤔
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4 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I was intrigued by this.
A badly phrased reminder to oil the air filter gauze, put there by a previous owner?
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On 16/09/2023 at 11:14, Peanut said:
Furthermore, they require a qualified installer for the initial installation, and to deal with most of the fault codes from the electronics, including a 1200 to1400-hour service.
What, every day, noon till 2pm?
Get the service chap to refuel it while he's there and you won't need the electronics ...
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11 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:
So, where am (or was) I?
Warrington?
Bridgewater and Manchester Ship canals?
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It's still there, they've just removed the menu link.
https://licensing.canalrivertrust.org.uk/Boat/Sightings
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
If there is no electricity, gas, or fuel sytems installed then there is nothing for the examiner to examine. No need for a BSS.
Same as you don't need a BSS fo an 'open boat'** powered by an outboard.
Or even a boat with an open cabin (aka 'cuddy)
I'm pretty sure you need a BSS on a boat with an enclosed cabin though, even if the entire checklist is marked "Not Present"
And the correct labels on the water and diesel filler, obviously!
Less sarcastically, an enclosed cabin will need fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, CO alarms. If there's a battery to run eg lights and water pump that will need to comply.
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31 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
1250V inverter
That's worrying!
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2 hours ago, M_JG said:
A MH or caravan is an ideal way to smuggle someone across the channel or for someone to stowaway
A friend of mine brought back a box trailer from his place in France and rather than run empty filled it with well seasoned oak firewood.
The organic matter scanner at the ferry port lit up like a Christmas tree and border control made him unload the entire 8ft x 6ft x 8ft trailer to prove there wasn't anybody hiding in it!
He doesn't bring any back now ...
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45 minutes ago, MtB said:
£12.50 per day per boat. That might help reduce the attractiveness of living aboard in the capital.
Not sure about that.
There have been a couple of boats who spotted that the £25/day overstay charge on visitor moorings effectively grants permission to stay if you pay so do.
Also £12.50 per day is ~£380 a month. You won't find many other places to live at that rate in that London area.
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26 minutes ago, tree monkey said:
I currently have about 20 demijohns
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Quite. My diesel bill has been higher than my licence cost for most of the time I've owned this boat. The COVID lockdowns reduced it a lot when we were asked not to move, but other than that it's been higher.
I gave up my previous mooring after paying for it for four years but only spending a continuous 7 week period on it (once) when the canal was closed. I could have been on the visitor moorings opposite for the same period without upsetting anyone - in fact a couple of years ago I did exactly that for four months!
Not taking the Mick, the pound was closed due to water shortages in both directions. I was first through the lock the day it reopened.