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17 minutes ago, Tony1 said:
they dont have to make CCers cruise 200 miles or whatever- they just need to make it impossible for a CCer to commute to a fixed job location, which would mean enforcing a minimum range of say 50 miles, with no returning to a previous mooring area within 3 months.
Why? The fixed work location isn't the issue, it's the boat not moving that's the problem.
If you get a job in the middle of Birmingham or the middle of the Cheshire ring (when it's not broken!) you can easily extensively cruise while commuting to work, it's just you commute from a different place every time you move on.
The guidelines suggest that wanting to be conveniently close to work or schools isn't a valid reason to not move the boat. They don't suggest that you can't have kids or a job, just that you can't stay in one location to do this.
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19 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Are there any examples of canal bye laws that we can examine to determine their geographical scope?
Ugly link, but here you go.
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45 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
The deepest lock is at the eastern end of the Rochdale, I forget its name
Did you read this thread?
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57 minutes ago, Alway Swilby said:
Presumably they mean single as in not a staircase rather than single as in narrow.
That was a surprisingly short argument!
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1 hour ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:
Why aren’t people being supportive?
So we all lie to him and tell him we’ve all done a Helmsman course and learned so much from it? I asked for honest responses to who’s done one and of yet no one has, even the people that are pushing him to do one, seem to have not done one themselves 🤔
Wind your neck in and re-read the original post. Howdoo asked for an instructor which is why he's had a few suggestions.
On 28/02/2025 at 11:37, Howdoo said:Good morning all .
can anyone recommend a instructor to shows us the ropes on learning what’s needed to drive, pilot ? A barge , are there courses online to start us off ? We live near Leeds and hope to be aboard early may .
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5 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
I sincerely hope this forum with its daily bonkerisms is blocked at the CRT HQ firewall. The CRT Commission should continue to listen to the thoughtful input from NBTA and not the hatred and extreme solutions posted here.
You want them to become a Local Authority, you'll need to pay them Council Tax. That's how that works!
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4 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Months ago I suggested here that the CRT will find itself becoming a type of linear networked local authority.
... with liveaboards paying council tax to CRT on top of their boat licence?
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2 hours ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:
And pay £425 per person?
How much would expect them to pay to hire a wide beam for 3 days or a week?
2 hours ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:And pay £425 per person?
How much would expect them to pay to hire a wide beam for 3 days or a week?
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2 hours ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:
Why not just hire a boat similar size to the one you would like to buy with wheel steering?
Or do the training on one ... Like the company I suggested earlier!
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Just now, nealeST said:
Hmm, well it’s seems it’s fate is to be forgotten:
For clarity I'd forgotten about the disconnected waterway licence, not the canal itself.
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8 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
There is always the 'non-connected canal' (cheap) licence.
Explain to C&RT that your boat is on the Mon & Brec and you get the vheap licence because you cannot use it elsewhere.
Oh, good point - I'd forgotten about that one. That one is geographically restricted, one of our members ( @magpie patrick maybe?) asked about using a boat on a disconnected waterway licence on a different disconnected waterway and it caused confusion!
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2 minutes ago, Momac said:
There is also a geographical restriction imposed by boat dimensions eg beam, height, length and draft which is not factored in when license fees are calculated.
Again, I don't think that's a geographical restriction. Nothing stops you selling an inappropriate boat and buying a different one and using the same class of licence.
If the boat fits the navigation, it's pure choice whether to get a full licence or a (lower priced) rivers only licence. I like the canals so I've never really seen the point, but if I had a proper boat over on the Trent I probably would!
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7 hours ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:
There’ll be someone with experience who’ll jump at the chance to go out with you
Just make sure you get someone who can actually control a wheel steered boat though, many can't.
Interestingly anyone who can steer with a wheel can also use a tiller, it's the other way round that causes problems. Also what I noticed with a twitchy wheel steered boat was that non-car drivers did much better at it than car drivers, probably because they didn't expect it to handle like a car. It won't!
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2 hours ago, Momac said:
Except for a 'Rivers Only' license.
That's not really a geographical restriction though, there's a lot of different rivers covered by it around the country. If you're "trapped" on the Lee, nothing stops you paying to be craned out and dropped in on the Weaver on your licence.
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1 hour ago, Howdoo said:
Good morning all .
can anyone recommend a instructor to shows us the ropes on learning what’s needed to drive, pilot ? A barge , are there courses online to start us off ? We live near Leeds and hope to be aboard early may .
many thanks
simon
Try Bear Boating at Apperley Bridge
They do training and are fairly local to you.
https://www.bearboating.co.uk/
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Reported because I'm upset by this thread
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23 hours ago, magnetman said:
No idea who Dunning Kruger is !
Well you wouldn't, would you!
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3 hours ago, koukouvagia said:
I'd never really noticed the badges attached to a member's name. Can someone enlighten me how to attain the dizzy heights of "Veteran" and "Veteran II"?
Actually, I think you are nearly a "Veteran" - hovering over you shows 3.4k posts, and I think (Can someone confirm?) that "Veteran" is 3.5k posts.
Just do what the rest of us do and post more drivel until you catch up!
They are fairly meaningless though - those of us with an extensive posting history before they turned up were immediately made "Veteran II" so missed out on all the other levels. I did argue at the time that we should all start again from zero and that the politics section shouldn't count but the mods decided otherwise.
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9 minutes ago, MtB said:
Hovering over your Username, I see your 'Badge' says "Rare".
We have cooking instructions now?! 😁
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On 19/02/2025 at 07:58, LadyG said:
When you say sea sickness,
The best cure is "stand under a tree" 🤣
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1 hour ago, nottheone said:
This is an interesting option . Have you a link to something that would not get confused by the cabin Roof that is only 25mm away ?
Dial the sensitivity down, any metal detecting type has a control to do this. You might have to try a couple of times but it'll be obvious when you're on the correct setting.
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A metal detecting stud finder set to an appropriate level would let you locate those box sections without drilling inspection holes.
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4 hours ago, junior said:
It would be interesting to know how many boats have been down there in recent history pre-stoppage. I'm all for keeping waterways open, including the lesser used sections. But if significant money was needed to either re-open or maintain this section moving forward, then it makes complete sense to me for CRT to save this money to be used elsewhere when they are struggling for funds.
I suspect I was the last one to do it!
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1 hour ago, LadyG said:
I dont thinks its about pin point accuracy of the flocs, i think its about moving from one floc to another, though since we dont know where they are, a general guesd might be a mile as the crow flies, or a mile as the contour winds, or it may not be a mile, thats just a guess,
We do know, and the primary FLOC is 1km not one mile.
They are shown on the reference map:
CRT Commission
in General Boating
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Because they don't. BW and BWB before them did as a government department, CRT as a private company don't.
After the Post Office fiasco I can't really see a current or near future government wanting to grant private prosecution powers to any more firms either.
CRT could choose to enforce the byelaws, but then they'd get all the expenses but none of the fines ...