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  6. Help save our mooring !

    in General Boating

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    Bw are planning to evict us from our mooring site at Sawley cut river Trent

    We have spoken to our MP David Taylor (Lab) NW Leicestershire, who paid us a visit at our moorings and is giving us his support .

    He has asked us to get a petition started to show peoples disapproval of Bw's plans, this we have started at local level with pen and paper .

    I have now started an online petition in the hope of receiving an extra amount of support.

    If you have an online mooring under Bw this policy effects you Because as new marinas open across the network for every 10 offline births created 1 online moorer will be evicted, so in our case pillings marina has opened on the river Soar with 280 births so Bw are evicting 28 fully paid up moorers in a 30 mile radius ! Bw could have approached this with a voluntary method or natural wastage but No they have taken a confrontational approach.

    Why not just go in the marina I here you ask ? well firstly its miles away ! Marinas have a minimum charge on births so small boat owners pay a premium to moor there! Some of the boats at Sawley are residential and Pillings does not have planning permission for them.

    As more and more marina developments are planned across the system if you moor online this does effect you !

    So lets stop Bw now !!!

     

    Please sign my petition Via this link http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SawleyCutMooring/

    Thank you for your support

     

    Simon

  8. mooring on Erewash Canal

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    Posted

    Is it a good idea to advertise on the internet where you're going to be leaving your boat unattended for a few days?

     

    I think you will find most boats are left unattended for more than just a few days :cheers:

     

    I don't think the scumbags would waste time reading foums when they could be out on the rob !

    Take a walk down any canal and you can see plenty of boats unattended :D

     

    Simon

  9. mooring on Erewash Canal

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    Posted

    Hi everyone,

     

    The old tub is going up the Erewash this weekend, and I'm taking the boat as well. I'll have to go back to work on Monday, anyone know a reasonable place t leave a boat up there for a few days? Ideally with pilings so I can use the hooks as mooring stakes can pull out: or even a boatyard that has visitor moorings.

     

    Thanks

     

    Patrick

     

    If your boats not on the Erewash now you may have trouble getting there as the river is in FLOOD!!!

  10. Burgled at Brum

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Recently travelling from Hawne basin to Stainforth, decided to stop overnight at the Tyburn House pub, next to the junction of the A452 and A38, in Birmingham.

     

    Is that the one on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal where you first encounter anti-vandal locks on the locks ?

    That pub looks great but have heard stories of the council estate that lies behind it :cheers:

     

    Boats have been set adrift when forced to moor there because they couldn't find/didn't have an anti-vandal key

     

    I think they should open the canal up to the A38 more so perhaps passing police patrols could keep an eye on boats moored along it

    (albeit at 70mph :cheers: )

     

    Sorry to hear of your experience.

    Thankfully not a common occurrence

    But i'm sure it scared the sh#t out of you

    I once had a run in with a pervert in Gas Street basin in the early hours of the morning and chased him off . But No sleep for me that night or the people on the NB he was perving :cheers:

     

    I think you may be at Shardlow for some judging from the weather forcast

    Though Shardlow is a nice place with appropriate provision for drowning your sorrows :D

     

    Simon

  13. Problem with starting engine

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    Hi, we have a NB with a Kabota 3-cylinder engine which we have had since December and which has always started with no problems. Tried to start it today to take to pump-out and the engine won't turn over. The engine gives a single 'clunk' and stops. The starter motor seems to be getting very hot.

     

    Battery power is fine and we have plenty of diesel.

     

    Any suggestions?

    It may be a problem with the starter motor .

    first check the motor hasn't come lose , check the bolts holding it to the engine, if any are loose don't tighten them yet , slacken them all off move the motor about a bit then re tighten (the starter may have come out of sync with the ring gear on the flywheel and wedged) if its done this alot because one (or more) of the bolts is loose or missing/broken you will need to debure the teeth on the ring gear with a file . Make sure that the motor is secured by all the bolts it is supposed to be !

     

    Simon

  15. Navigation Lights

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    Posted

    Some of the measurements given on the link page aren't really achievable on a narrowboat. I've fitted red/green on the cabin sides and plan to fit one on the stern. I'm not sure about the mast head as I don't have a mast. Is the so called tunnel light not acceptable in lieu?

    The masthead light is an anchor light your tunnel light only shines forward (and would flatten your battery if left on all night) an anchor light needs to be viewed from all directions and only needs to be a 5w bulb B)

     

    Simon

  16. Navigation Lights

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Theodora has port and starboard lights. I imagine that they are insufficient for some waterways. They are certainly unnecessary for lots.

     

    What do I need in addition for which waterways. I am thinking that I might need proper masthead light and sternlight. Do I need red all round lights? For possible NUC? Anchor ball etc. etc.

     

    I will not be going out to sea as such but will be navigating the higher reaches of the tidal Trent, the Thames and the Ribble link.

     

    Nick

    Have a look at this Here

     

     

    Simon

  17. Gruesome water points

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    The Elsan disposal point at Autherley juction on the Shropshire Union must be the most disgusting on the system B)

    It's no wonder its situated so far from the boatyard (in fact it's a bit of a job to spot it at all)

    You'll wish you never found it when you lift the lid B)

    Either local boaters are using a dry toilet system or the local Dog walkers are scooping in their pooches deposits and missing the hole completely

    Turds around the orifice will put anyone off their pudding B)

    I have been there twice a couple of years in between .

     

    B) I won't be stopping there again B)

     

     

    Simon

  18. Acknowledgement Of Application

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    Posted

    I went to BW's Fazeley Office to apply for a licence, they were very helpful they checked all the details were correct and sent it down to Watford for processing. They then issue you with a Acknowledgement Of Application, a piece of yellow laminated paper to display in a towpath side window. I have two problems with this, the acknowledgement contains more information than I would like to display on my boat, like my

    name

    address

    telephone number

    imagine you are out with the family for the weekend on the boat. I could walk past your boat record the address, phone that handy number to double check no one's home and then you have a nasty surprise wating for you when you return home to spoil your weekend.

    So I will not be displaying my Acknowledgement Of Application. My second problem is I have no windows from which to display it anyway.

    Why not get one of these 539572488_b0de4ba072.jpg

    as seen this weekend on a boat near me B)

  19. Where have all the GRP Cruisers gone???

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Those boats on the Beeston didn't have too much enviromental effect as the turtles are still there!!

    Well the water flows from beeston towards nottingham !

     

    Why smash it up at all!! It must have been worth more than the £1000 section 8 requirement. Someone should look in to this. I thing an e-mail to Eugene is in order by way of complaint. That is no small cruiser. A good pump out and it would have been fine for restoration.

     

    Just shows, if it's not shiney and worth six figures, BW do not want it on 'their' waterways.

    Well they left it there that long the local pikeys stripped it and it rolled over in further flooding

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    Simon

  21. Where have all the GRP Cruisers gone???

    in General Boating

    Posted

    And thats still sat at Holme lock waiting to go goodness knows where!

     

    But if its the one that was on the Beeston cut near Boots it was burnt out anyway and sunk!!!

     

    It was originally washed onto the weir at Sawley during floods !

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    Could have made someone a good project though !!

     

    They didn't have to smash it up while it was sat in the river !!!

     

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    Its not the one from near boots, there were 2 boats there . A narrowboat that sunk at beeston and a cruiser that was gutted by fire outside Sainsbury's at castle marina . Both were moved to the wide section near the Dunkirk industrial estate where they were left to rot for at least 2 years untill they were removed earlier this year !!

     

    I wonder what effect they had on the environment in all that time :)

     

    Simon

  22. Where have all the GRP Cruisers gone???

    in General Boating

    Posted

    As an organisation owned by the public, BW should listen to the public when we say we don't want GRP Cruisers destroyed, after all they belong to all of us once they've been section 8'd.

     

    It's VERY wrong.

     

    I agree look what Bw did to one at Sawley :)

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    I wonder how much glass fiber and other pollutants went in the cut as they broke it up in the water

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    Simon

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