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TheBiscuits

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  1. 9 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

    We were too poor to afford a Diablo, especially with all those fancy balance weights you could get for them.

     

    I do fondly remember my Barnett Imp pistol crossbow that i acquired by trading a couple of grumble mags to a kid at high school ;) 

     

    I'd recommend a trip to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, particularly the top floor display of illegal offensive weapons.

     

    MrsBiscuit was quite impressed as I was walking along a display case of items saying "Yeah, and one of those, and one of those and two of them, but mine was the smaller version..."

     

    At the end of the row there's a large sign pointing out that simple possession of anything in the display is worth 5 to 10 years in prison.

     

    I'm fairly sure that wasn't true in the 1980s, or the 1990s would have been quite different for me!

  2. 1 minute ago, Francis Herne said:

    I've been there in the past and found a boat moored sticking out into the winding hole. That counts as daft in my book, although complaining about being bumped in that case would be improbably so.

     

    Yeah, I wondered if it was that one as well.  One of the neighbouring boats told me they do it to try and dissuade non-residents boats from using the services and winding hole.  

     

    Surely the best way to avoid getting bumped there during the challenge would be to take part! :D

     

     

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  3. 4 minutes ago, magnetman said:

    The CRT can't allow or disallow passage on tidal water.

     

    No, but they only allow you through the rotating sea lock at certain times.  You can still go for a jolly on the River Ribble when there's enough water in the River Douglas, but you're staying out for 24 hours at least ...

     

    Preston Docks or Douglas boatyard by prior arrangement are the only realistic options for narrow boats.

  4. 1 hour ago, IanD said:

    Ribble Link

     

    The Ribble Link is Savick Brook.  I think some of the confusion here is that you're claiming the shallow muddy ditch with locks is deep water, which it isn't when navigation is permitted. When the water is flooding over the tops of the locks, you'd not want to be on it in a boat!

     

    The River Ribble itself however certainly is deep water, in fact CRT won't allow passage up to the Ribble Link on anything less than a 9m tide or passage down the link on less than an  8.5m tide.

     

     

     

     

  5. 3 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

    being the only locks on the Lancaster C, hire companies may not be keen to give their new crews any instruction on use of locks ??

     

    There's a cheaper hire boat business licence option that doesn't allow locks to be used.  And 40 miles or so of lock free cruising on the Lancaster Canal ...

     

    I suspect this has quite a lot more to do with it than instruction difficulties!

     

     

     

    We really like the Glasson Arm, but a CRT bod told me that the top lock gets four times as many cycles as the bottom lock - a lot of boats drop just one or two locks then go back rather than continue down to the basin.

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  6. 14 hours ago, magnetman said:

    It doesn't matter if top paddles can be operated if all the bottom gear is secured

     

    You could be correct.  I'm personally responsible for the padlocks on Wigan Flight bottom lock being moved from the head gates to the tail gates because I had the nerve to operate the lock (downhill) out of hours - early - rather than wait for someone to bother unlocking it.

     

    Or you could be mistaken, because I'm also responsible for operating the same lock in the opposite direction after they'd changed the padlock system.  Leaky tailgates can rather spoil your theory ! ;)

     

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  7. 8 hours ago, rusty69 said:

    I think you forgot the colony of great crested newts that got wiped out and subsequently the whole species became extinct. 

     

    Colony? I thought there were only two of them.

     

    They each have their own social worker and a support team that move them from building site to building site around the country ...

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  8. 9 hours ago, robtheplod said:

    I'll never understand why they don't make a real charge for use of this.... £20/£50?  

     

    As I understand it, the non-licence holder fee is/was £60 per go.

     

    I have no idea how many actually paid your that though!

     

     

  9. 4 hours ago, cuthound said:

     

    Very true. when I went to collect my boat I left the builder, who was paving my end of garden mooring, the four bollards I wanted to use and pushed bamboo canes into the earth to mark the spots where I wanted the bollards installed.

     

    When I returned back home with the boat he had moved the bollards closer together because "they didn't line up with complete paving slabs and would have looked awful"... :(

     

     

    I hope you didn't pay him!

  10. 3 minutes ago, MtB said:

    Let's hope not.

     

    An online winter mooring via CRT doesn't change CCer/ no home mooring status.

     

    Mooring for a few months (actually more than 14 days!) in a marina or on a non-CRT mooring means you should change your mooring status declaration with CRT.  

     

    Yes, there should be a change in licence fee for this period.  I suspect in practice the admin fee will cost more than any potential saving though, at least for the next couple of years until the higher surcharges kick in.

    1 minute ago, Drayke said:

    Well what about those that have a home mooring but go out CCing for 6-8 months of the year, again just asking.

     

    If you surrender the mooring for 6 months and declare no home mooring then you'll get an increase in your licence fee.  If you still have a home mooring and go out cruising for 6 months you're not CCing!

  11. 11 hours ago, IanD said:

    Also means that like the bows the stern is pretty much watertight -- I expect to test this shortly on the Rochdale Nine, there's several inches of water going over the top gate

     

    Wuss. If it's not up to the balance beam it's hardly worth mentioning ;)

     

    11 hours ago, IanD said:

    and this pound is far too big to lower... 😞

     

    Nah, just crack a paddle or two and wait overnight!

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