MarkHez

They even have some vans badged up with both Fountains and CRT logos, I saw a convoy of them a few weeks ago.

I cleared a decent size tree blocking the Lancaster a few months ago, Oregon battery chainsaw, 2 ropes, my boat as a tug, and a block and tackle had it cleared 2 days before the contractors turned up!

CRT had already been out and cleared the towpath as far as I know.

Reading that I'm not sure why I was on a "full block" - I was only on a 6month licence, there was no debt. CRT Eventually lifted the block on my account so I managed to get everything sorted. Mark

If it's a new airwash model boatman (old ones didn't have a top airwash vent, and had a different handle), then wind the airwash knob in all the way, then out almost a full turn, and then do the same with the bottom vent. If burning some half decent coal, this will make it last 24 hours + If you wind the bottom vent out about another half a turn it will keep in for about 10 hours (on a well banked up fire) and keeps my front cabin and back cabin at about 15 degrees (when it was -2 outside yesterday) [edit to add] I burn 50% excel and 50% mixed ovoids (none smokeless, rather cheap) at the moment.

Ahh but what about moving 20 miles either side of it? Current advice from CRT is a distance of not less than 15 - 20 miles (linear)(so 10 miles either side of work). This may increase, but it has not been announced in any official paperwork as far as I'm aware, and is just heresay

A friend of mine may have an old style boatman up for sale soon, recently came out of a house installation, can enquire if you'd like.

Brilliant little stove, can run for 30+ hours on excel smokeless without touching it, very well designed and made, use mine with a backboiler, but the top plate still gets hot enough to do all my cooking on. Only downside is the ash pan isnt the full width of the grate, so you have to scoop some out with a shovel from time to time. [edit] yes it's the one you linked to, Eddie the bloke that makes them is a brilliant chap.

Not quite as physically small, but I run a boatman in my 27ft, and as it's a centre cockpit, the front cabin is possibly even smaller than that on your boat.

Think mine is the same on my new style Boatman (12months old), but the backboiler can easily reach boiling point with a rather large rad and cylinder, I have no doubt it could run a couple more rads easily.

The guy has no water underneath his boat, due to their negligence! One thing I know about boats is they need water underneath them, they don't float so well on dry land.

I do all my cooking on my boatman, bear in mind that a backboiler will reduce the heat of the top plate, but I happily use a large crock pot with a piece of mesh in the bottom as a half decent oven, along with boiling, frying etc on the top.

I had to leave the boat to go to work this morning in that! Up near white bull at bilsborrow, very windy spot!!

I posed the question to CRT: "What if the visiting boater has gone out, for example to work? not everyone stays on their boats all the time, thus can't move off "right away"" Their Response: Thanks for your comments. In that situation we'd do our best to get hold of the person using the contact details we hold and ask them to come and move their boat. Damian I am now awaiting a response to the follow up question "You'd seriously ask people to leave work, to move their boat off a legal visitor mooring??" If this is what they plan on doing, it's basically saying if you plan on leaving your boat at all, you can't use a winter mooring space without a permit.

They Didnt take a cruiser out in an F6 They Didnt take a cruiser out in an F6

A friend of mine has a Brayzel boat, the finish is superb. Only based a few miles down the cut from me, Andrew does my BSS certificates.

I've had enough of complaining to CRT - it goes nowhere, I tried complaining after I got a very threatening shoosmiths letter as my boat was "found to be unlicensed and overstaying during patrol checks on the leeds and liverpool canal", when I've never been anywhere near the Leeds and Liverpool canal. I suggested that maybe another boat is displaying my index number, but this was completely dismissed without them even looking into it.

I've given up on this thread now, my reasons for overstaying were approved by CRT, doesn't matter if you think it was a reasonable reason or not, they told me it was. I can't CC the boat for the next 6 months to comply, and currently I can't sell it, there are also no available moorings other than CRT ones in my area (yes, I have been round every single marina and private moorings operator). But my personal circumstances are not what are important, the flawed system is regardless of any reason that I have ended up "under enforcement"

Very good if you don't have to pay for it!! Any gain you get from it is a bonus, even if it only lasts 6 months!

That's standard practice, I have 2 coach batteries in my domestic bank as they only ever get replaced in pairs so there is a few good batteries lying around, both drop tests and hydrometers show my 2 to be perfect.

By being put onto a restricted licence? Anyway, just had an email from CRT replying to my enquiry about alternative ways to purchase moorings without access to the website: "When accounts are fully blocked, there is no other alternative way to buy moorings unfortunately."

Exactly what I was trying to point out, it doesn't matter what reason someone has for why they've ended up under enforcement, if they want to follow CRTs advice and get a home mooring this is made overly complicated for them!!

I'd completely forgotten, I thought I had another full year left on it! And that's the thing, if they told me this was unacceptable I'd have moved, although this would have made things awkward for me and the inspector, but fair enough if it isn't a valid reason.... as it was I got told it was fine, and then penalised for it.

Sigh. I was trying to make people aware of quite serious flaws in the system since the waterside moorings website was introduced.