Marshian
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19 minutes ago, Stephen Jeavons said:
Yeah, I guessed that.
Hey I just thought of a way to have some devious fun. Don a high-vis jacket and walk along the tow path carrying a tablet pausing regularly
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29 minutes ago, Stephen Jeavons said:
I think the findings in my post above (45) vindicate my initial observations about non-paying boaters. We complain about canal and lock maintenance. CRT need the money, go figure. I'm sure everyone on this forum are above reproach and pay their dues. It's the others we should all be concerned about (shouldn't we?)
Stephen - my last comment was strictly 'tongue-in-cheek'. I'm never irate - I much prefer lowrate
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Going Back to the OP, I was caught-out by auto renewal 2 weeks early back in February. I had licensed my boat for 3 months at a time up until then. As I was funded-up in February, I intended to get an annual license, but was auto-renewed for 3 months. (I too missed the link to opt-out, or maybe just wasn't expecting it to happen 2 weeks before expiry). If I'm not funded-up for subsequent renewals, I'll have to stick with the 3 month license, which will cost me £100 more over the course of a year. So not happy.
On the subject of displaying a license, I don't always - as others have commented, most boats don't have printers. Last summer, moored on the N Oxford or Coventry (can't remember which) a CRT inspector knocked on my boat to enquire why my license wasn't displayed. Explaining as above, I offered to show him the emailed license on my laptop, which he declined as unnecessary. He did suggest a note in the license holder giving the license number. Maybe his handheld gadget couldn't get a signal?
Maybe displaying a handwritten note of the license details is not a bad idea, if just to placate irate towpath walkers (Stephen?...)
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43 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
Oh I see now. Typical, my fault. I'm used to it on Happy Ship Nightwatch. We will probably have a late summer in June,July and August. That's my prediction.
That'll do nicely!
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15 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
Me no understandy. Me looky uppy
edit to add. I looked it up. Who accused who of what?
I accused you and Mr Smelly of talking us into a bad summer
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1 minute ago, Nightwatch said:
I can't speak German!!
It's Fringlish
7 minutes ago, Midnight said:90 degrees in the shade here in York, river levels low, getting a sun tan, free beer in all the pubs ----"wake up Frank it's time to get up"
Shangri-lala land?
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52 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Its not my fault. My signature told everybody that summer started on the first of march but everyone extracted the urine so their bad vibes have made it like it is. I have had to adjust my signature because of this.
28 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:I think we had summer for a couple of days last week.
Mr Smelly; Nightwatch; j'accuse!
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Well, I am unapologetically a fair weather boater. I plan to migrate north in the summer, bird-like, from the Canaries (appropriately!) back to my boat in Staffs. Probably sometime in May, weather permitting.
Searching for reassurance about the warm, balmy summer to come, I chance upon this thread – rain, rain and maybe warmer rain
. Part of my primitive belief system is that we will influence the weather by our confidence (or otherwise) in it, so please stop convincing it to rain!
I have to state, categorically, that there will be a fine, warm summer this year. There will be enough rain (in the early hours on some days) to maintain water levels. No rising rivers and flood warnings. If not, those expressing views to the contrary must shoulder the blame for talking-up the rain!
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Well, I am unapologetically a fair weather boater. I plan to migrate north in the summer, bird-like, from the Canaries back to my boat in Staffs. Probably sometime in May, weather permitting.
Searching for reassurance about the warm, balmy summer to come, I chance upon this thread – rain, rain and maybe warmer rain
. Part of my primitive belief system is that we will influence the weather by our confidence (or otherwise) in it, so please stop convincing it to rain!
I have to state, categorically, that there will be a fine, warm summer this year. There will be enough rain (in the early hours on some days) to maintain water levels. No rising rivers and flood warnings. If not, those expressing views to the contrary must shoulder the blame for talking-up the rain!
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1 hour ago, Tumshie said:
True - pretty those bike bushes!
Also a good crop for canalside farmers. They can sell the (fully grown) bikes to those dear chaps who race up and down the towpath on them
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6 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:
Having lived in London for the last 42 years, I can confirm that it used to be a more pleasant place than it is now, and yes, I expect to leave it
within the next 2 months.
Yes, I abandoned London last year, to spend warm winters in the Canaries, and wet summers on my boat! But I go back as often as I can...
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15 hours ago, system 4-50 said:
I don't mean London's canals are full, its London as a whole that is far too full.
The full canals are a symptom of urban congestion, but London wouldn't be the same place without it. I think it's a case of I'll take it, and you'll leave it
15 hours ago, Athy said:Yes, we are agreeing but expressing our agreement in our own different ways.
Ok, we can agree to not differ
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12 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:
Ha! It's well overfull even without Smellys' 70ft.
True - I don't boat in London. My boat's a chance to get out of London to the sticks. I keep forgetting what those big, flat green things are - oh yes, that's it, fields...
Nice to get away to the sticks, but I wouldn't want to live there
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6 hours ago, Athy said:
No mistake at all. We were talking about establishing the level of the rent, i.e. when the property is first put on the rental market, not about reviewing or raising it, which comes later.
I have already explained that. Please see the second part of post no. 46
I think the distinction is artificial. Whenever I've offered an empty property at an initial rent, or raised the rent for the current tenant, rents charged within the local rental market would be the sole determining factor. If the costs of the property aren't covered by rent based on that criterion, then I'm in the wrong business!
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59 minutes ago, b0atman said:
i wouldn't live in London if they paid me
More room for us Londoners
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8 hours ago, john12345 said:
1 bed :1100-1200
2 bed :1200-1350
From your first estimate of rent levels in the area, I would say that the boat is comparable
6 minutes ago, john12345 said:brendford rent for 2 bed 1350 per month
boat 1290 per month
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1 minute ago, john12345 said:
Boatlord paying all
Waterlord?
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6 minutes ago, john12345 said:
Its more about to do not be a fool....
Like buying old ford Ka, yes you can like the car, small, easy to park etc but market price for 2004 Ford Ka is around £500, so you not going to pay 1500 for it just because you like idea of having one...
True enough, but that boat's rent is comparable with 2 bed flats in the area, it's not 3x the rent
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I've never rented a houseboat, either as landlord or tenant, but I am a London landlord. That rent seems a lot for Brentford (whereas £1500 for Tower Bridge was a bargain!). I get the impression that the landlord expects a premium from prospective tenants looking for an 'alternative' living arrangement.
I also agree with Athy (post #38). You don't squeeze every penny of rent from a good tenant. I've not increased the rent on my property for 4 years. Rents in the area have increased, but a good tenant has a greater value than a bit extra each month.
Can't agree that cost of a rental property is a major determinant of the rent charged - it's determined by rent levels in the area. If you bought a property 20 years ago, would you charge a rent that was current at that time? I wouldn't. Similarly, if you're buying a property to rent-out in an area where house prices are proportionately higher than rents, you're not likely to find a tenant prepared to pay a significantly higher rent than average.
I'd say that, if the OP wants the experience of living on a boat, the Brentford one might be worth it. If it's just a question of affordable accommodation, rent a flat.
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10 minutes ago, BruceinSanity said:
Why? As we keep saying, CRT is neither a housing authority nor a social service organisation. Mind you, the LA response is likely to be giving them a cardboard box each.
If the LA could discharge its statutory homelessness duty with a cardboard box, I'm sure they would. But they can't. They can, however, argue that the root cause of the liveaboards' homelessness is a CaRT maintenance issue. That's not turning CaRT into a housing authority; it's a housing authority holding CaRT responsible for homelessness due to canal disrepair
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2 hours ago, Loddon said:
Yes cart have been known to "rescue" boats from one side of a breach/serious stoppage (Aylesbury) however I was refering to them providing accomodation etc.
The local authority will have a duty under homelessness legislation towards liveaboards prevented from living aboard by the breach. I expect they'd offload that duty onto CaRT, tho'.
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1 hour ago, Machpoint005 said:
Written English was standardised, somewhat randomly, only a couple of centuries ago but the wide variation in spelling of a particular phoneme is a result of the rich cultural ancestry of our language (Latin, French, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Norse etc). I rather like it that way.
+1 for that. I rather think that, by the time writing became an issue, words of any origin had been assimilated into early modern English in the main. Spelling differences largely arose from writers working in isolation - different monasteries, etc. I appreciate there are some salient opposite examples, such as the Vale of Belvoir!
An example in favour of my point would be the River Soar. It's spelt the same as the verb, although it's a noun. It comes from a lost language, which pre-dates the earliest forms of Celtic. There's a parallel in Germany - the Saar
43 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:a shew is a small rodent like a mice.
The Taming of the Shew?
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I've found that, once you reach your 'golden years', a bus pass is your friend. It's not too tricky to moor within striking distance of a rural bus route, which gets you to the station, car hire depot, etc. Long taxi rides from 'the stix' to the station work-out expensive...
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Taking on-board (not literally!) previous points, I believe I was aware, in a general sense, that navigation authorities have a power, not a duty, to provide facilities, as Mike says above. I'm also aware that canals and rivers have different issues when it comes to that provision, as Scholar Gypsy points-out. As such, it's probably not appropriate to compare the Nene directly with the canals.
A more like-for-like comparison would be between the Nene and Gt Ouse rivers, which are both covered by the same licence. I find that facilities beyond Denver Sluice are rather better than those on the Nene (there's even an elsan disposal at Ely!). I think it's unfortunate that facilities on the Nene aren't more proportionate to those on the Gt Ouse. Going back to the OP, I had hoped that a CaRT takeover might improve the situation.
As it is, as the year progresses, I can start to anticipate the coming cruising season, looking forward to exchanging the clear blue skies of Fuerteventura for those of a summer on the waterways. Well, in my imagination, anyway
. I plan to cruise canals in the NW this year, so don't know when I'll be back on the Nene. But I will be...
. See how many boats behind you suddenly decide to cast off and be elsewhere 
. Slap my wrist, mustn't be uncharitable 
That'll do nicely!
. Part of my primitive belief system is that we will influence the weather by our confidence (or otherwise) in it, so please stop convincing it to rain!
Modern trend or brand spefic
in General Boating
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I bought my first flat in London 11 years ago. I had a good deposit - 32.5% - and my (approx) £30k salary at the time serviced an interest-only mortgage. So a £100k salary should fund a reasonable home IF the lady concerned had a deposit. If not, maybe it was possible to finance the boat 100%, but no such mortgage was available? (Didn't see the programme, which might have covered the decision making reasons)