Lady M

Or you can leapfrog the boats.

Are these lock failures associated with being left empty for extended periods of time due to flight opening restrictions?

Llangollen

The FBW Donations page asked for Gift Aid but there is no mention of IWA. Perhaps if you go ahead, which I didn't, there is a clarification. Obviously any Gift Aid would be claimed and received by IWA in the first instance.

Can anyone please explain how donations to Fund Britain's Waterways are eligible for Gift Aid?

CRT were supposed to be self funding by the end of the initial funding scheme. Government could have decided not to give them any more money. The new deal is lower than the initial one but is a lot more than nil.

Some people aren't paying currently.

'Imaginary ale' AKA keg bitter

I think that some boat movers offer an option to travel with you, so you can learn from them.

This concerns me too. CRT approach that the towpath does not form part of the navigation is frustrating. Also, I noticed two or three actual gaps in the towpath near Napton recently. Something I don't recall seeing since my earliest canal holidays. However, the point was that you can't hop off to hold the boat on a rope while another boat passes in a narrow, overgrown stretch if you are unable to access the towpath due to excessive vegetation.

With the towpaths becoming more overgrown, your sensible avoidance tactic will now be harder to achieve.

Also mooring basins rented from CRT.

As of just a few days ago, the first two moorings after the Folly winding hole - on the locks side - are quite shallow.

This and other issues were why, after some consideration, I decided not to support the proposal to charge CCers more. Hopefully CRT have taken account of the likely additional admin costs.

Or perhaps the OP just didn't know that boats don't always come with these items. A purchaser who hasn't hired first may not even know that these exist. However, brokerages could perhaps improve the purchaser experience by mentioning such items.

Where can one read these regulations please?

Perhaps some of those eligible will have changed their postal address in the interim? Perhaps read it as 'up to date' by the end of August.

Very hot weather can affect the stern gland grease.

I think you can catch a bus to the station in Nantwich or directly to Crewe.

It is my understanding that 'like for like' replacements are generally accepted by BSS examiners. Indeed, how would they know? One Paloma looks like others. Following advice from a friendly BSS examiner, I replaced my three way fridge with a similar but newer model and he said this would be accepted provided I got the 'amateur but competent' installation gas safety tested by a Gas Safe registered for boats person. As the replacement fridge looks different and is clearly a newer model, this could not be done under the radar.

I've always just measured the steelwork, all my fenders are removable.