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1 hour ago, nicknorman said:
As an engineer I think I am morally offended by B2Bs because they are so horrendously inefficient. But just ignore me!I tend to agree, but mine blows the "waste" heat straight onto my knees. Which isn't efficient at all, but lovely when steering at this time of year!
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7 hours ago, IanD said:
There will always be some things on a boat that you don't have backup for if they go wrong -- engine and gearbox on a diesel boat, for example
@Alan de Enfield has a spare engine on both boats. And even a spare hull on one!
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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!
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15 hours ago, magnetman said:
Ants wreck filters
Is that near London? 😁
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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!
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1 minute ago, MartynG said:
Maybe more than a month
14 days, or longer as is reasonable in the circumstances, surely...
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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!
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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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28 minutes ago, David Mack said:
Looking at how difficult that is to operate, it must be tempting to forego the cost of a CRT key (which is presumably trapped in the mechanism), just climb back on board the boat as it passes through, and leave the bridge in the open position, to save the effort of closing it again!
Or at least an eBay knock-off key ...
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25 minutes ago, Midnight said:
Can you imagine that at rush hour when people are trying to go to work..
Anyone tried it yet?
Not yet, but I do like doing Plank Lane bridge just before the timer prevents operation ...
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
No mention of mooring or licence fees though (although I may have missed it in my quick scan)
Try reading past the headline then ...
... although I'm not entirely sure who they are paying it to!
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2 hours ago, Bee said:
The reason that the UK canals are almost certainly the most expensive to use in the world
Panama Canal, single transit private yacht...
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2 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:
a stack of things I'd like to do, and taking a steam train ride in the middle of a boat trip is one.
Bucket lists r us .... https://www.dartmouthrailriver.co.uk/tickets/round-robin
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1 hour ago, Unicorn Stampede said:
Maritime law, in the respect of free men, is what they use/justify not paying.
I know it makes no sense
It could if they took their narrow boats beyond the 12 mile limit 😁
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27 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
I have 4 perfectly good T105s, one pair in the caravan, one pair languishing in the garage. They still have about 75% capacity. I will need to dispose of them
Flog them to the chap opposite me who was running his engine at 0330 yesterday...
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30 minutes ago, magnetman said:
when you get free men in a boat you know you have real problems !
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I we're considering miniatures, Haigh Hall country park has one just above Wigan
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18 minutes ago, Athy said:
Compare and contrast 'craft beer' v. 'real ale'
They are two different things ...
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Tarleton end of the Rufford Branch for West Lancs Light Railway.
Preston Marina or Ashton Basin for Ribble Steam railway and museum.
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40 minutes ago, MtB said:
I'd imagine if you found and deleted the CWF biscuits
Oi! What have I done to deserve such treatment? 😭
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5 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Large language model artificial intelligences. Computer programs that can generate human sounding text from what they have gathered by scanning training data scraped from the internet and other sources. We have seen several new users that we think are posting using this stuff from a number of places on the planet. We don't know how much of it is automated. It is a relatively new thing that has been affecting other forums too. The purpose of them doing this is unknown. So far it isn't being used to spam the forum. The text reads off, lots of filler text and rather bland. Being factual and relevant to inland boating is open to question.
We don't want it on here because no computer goes boating, is planning to go boating, or has any boating experience, so anything one writes is going to be second hand at best and not contribute to the forum in a useful way.
I've just reported this post as it seems to fill the criteria contained within it ...
The text reads off, lots of filler text and rather bland.
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2 minutes ago, IanD said:
expenditure has to be reduced, which means closing canals. Except the recently-restored ones which are expensive to keep open and little-used were largely financed by the likes of local councils, the Millennium Fund, and the EU, all of which are likely to want a big chunk of their money back if CART close the canals that they paid to reopen... 😞
Occam's Razor says close ones that this doesn't apply to - Grand Union, Regent's, Oxford ...
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18 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
It is possible to kill batteires in under a week
Ask anyone whio has mistakenly left the immersion heater / inverter running for a few days without moving the boat.
Yeah, but you only did it the once!
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13 hours ago, dmr said:
GL is very variable, and can be a no go area (or even ticket only) if there is a band or DJ on, especially at weekends. If you want to do drinking or eating its always worth going in very early evening.
However some events (Reggae etc) can be rather good.
The little bar over the road (a GL offshoot) is also ok but no real ale.
The relocated and expanded micro pub (The Pub) is a short walk away but last time I went in was charging almost London prices and had a very strange and not very friendly atmosphere.
Next stop will be Hebden, too many pubs to count.
1 minute ago, Psychalist said:Or the Alehouse. Unfortunately the Polished Knob isn't open Thursday but a good shout if you're there Friday.
Or The Market Tavern. Or Jack's House if you fancy a longer walk.
No to insuring a narrowboat without an engine.
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Stupid mobile phone
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 ...