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Johnny, sent you a message about a gas fitter who is also BSS liveaboard gas registered. Might be worth giving him a call as you'll need a new BSS once it has all been installed anyway and he will be in a good position to have already been onboard your boat.
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I don't know the place and therefore this may not be at all relevant, however are you absolutely sure its boater rubbish? In East London the boaters get the rough end of the accusations and whilst it is often them, many of the land residents are actually to blame as they are too lazy to walk to their own rubbish facilities etc.
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on the17 hours ago, nicknorman said:
You miss the point, which is about social pressure. If all boats have visible licences, there is pressure (or if you like, the paradigm) that everyone should get a licence. If half the boats don't display a licence, some people will think they don't need to bother. You may feel that you don't care if other folk have licences but ultimately that is a foolish viewpoint since if you become the only person to have a licence, you won't be able to use it because the canals will be derelict.
Surely that is why CRT have enforcement loggers and checkers etc? Someone who wanted to play the system with their peers could easily get a licence, print it off then cancel it and still display it so all the "busybodies would be happy" and the situation wouldn't have changed.
On the rare occasion I've had to buy a licence to take the boat out of the marina for the day I've done it by phone as the online system just doesn't function as it should. There is nothing emailed that I can recall that you could print out. I don't keep index plates in our windows and our boat is not named in a visible manner. I have forgotten to put the index plates in the windows on all occasions I have been out including a trip around the Olympic park which had a heavy CRT presence as well as lots of brass polishers (I keep the index plates with the tiller pin now so I won't forget).
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On 02/03/2017 at 11:22, BruceinSanity said:
Just make sure you get sight of proof of identity from the buyer. Banks are taking the anti money laundering regs very seriously these days, at least for us hoi polloi, and may ask you to explain where the dosh came from when it appears in your account.
This applies in spades if you take cash and try to pay it in.
although banks take AML seriously indeed there is no requirement on you as an individual private seller to identify a buyer in any way shape or form. If you receive the payment by BACS that will cover that aspect of it and yes if you pay £50k into the bank you are going to get asked where it came from and your account will, depending on the bank, have some sort of flag or indicator applied to it "just in case" it happens again.
If it was a car it would be quite acceptable to ask for sight of licence and insurance before a test drive, however that doesn't really apply. Would I show you my ID if asked? Probably and I suspect most people would.
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If I have a compost toilet I should expect a discount as I am using less services than those without.
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13 hours ago, Steilsteven said:
Alan,
Is the object of the exercise to discourage people from buying wide beam boats?
Keith
I'd suggest the object of the exercise is to quite simply raise more revenue for adjusting some parameters without providing any additional services or benefits. I would be absolutely amazed to see the licences remain the same for the largest boats and then to be discounted for smaller boats , quite simply that isn't going to happen. Maybe there will be an M25 London congestion zone increase in the charge to try and stop all the craziness apparently going on down here.
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7 minutes ago, Neil2 said:
I know what you mean, but the industry has come on a long way in recent years and some of the finishes on offer now you can't tell at a glace what they are. Our present house had some splashback panels I took to be opaque glass but they are acrylic.
AFAIK all the panel solutions are "plastic" in one form or another, vinyl, acrylic etc.
BTW all the good suppliers will send you a free sample if you see something you like but not sure what it will look like "in the flesh".
When I was remodelling I got various samples from a range of suppliers including some very expensive ones. They all still seemed "cheap". Indeed even when at Crick there was a fancy pants cat C electric wheel house roof widebeam that despite being exceptionally well fitted out still seemed to use these panels and they just let the finish down. I plumped for Hardie Backer cement board and then tiles fixed with Sikaflex and a flexible grout (however I don't move the boat very often as we are more like caravanners :-) )
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13 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:
Technically you don't own a car if bought on HP, or if you have bought under a Personal Lease or Purchase Plan, but you still have to insure the car yourself.
indeed it is why we have the concept of registered keeper and owner as being distinct in numerous situations with liability for each fairly simply laid out.
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Not the smartest publication to go online forever and more and to be used against them if they turned a claim down.
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15 hours ago, MartynG said:
Nothing much.
But once the boat has its C&RT registration number it might be difficult to persuade the C&RT that it has changed.
not sure what you need to go through to put a new boat into the system, however not entirely impossible to "remove" a vessel from the waterway, rename it and launch as a new vessel with new dimensions......... :-)
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21 hours ago, WotEver said:
You cant insure a car unless you own it.
That isn't true. You cannot insure a car unless you have an insurable interest in it, the same goes for anything that can be insured. Yes you will most likely need a decent broker to get past the computer says no responses you get from the mainstream insurers.
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7 hours ago, roland elsdon said:
We keep the car in the garage of the house we rent out and use that as the overnight address. We avoid using the car as much as possible but if we do need to drive we cycle back to it. It never is away from its permenant garage for more than 30 days. Looking in to the system just coming in of paying by the mile, or giving up now we no longer need a car for work.
cancelled my own insurance last year knowing it would never pay out realised I was going to transgress the Brit resident part of the policy. Took out day insurance for 28 days . Third party and lethally expensive but at least they had all the facts.
in the old days we had all our insurance with mike Stimpson and by having all our policies with him as under writer he was able to negotiate with companies. Unfortunately in today's inflexible world of computers they don't evaluate risk except statistically and therefore cannot insure without postcodes.
thousands of people in the uk are not insured by accident or design. Here in Australia they are in front at least on this. If the car is registered it has injury liability built in so is insured, at least at a minimum standard, so at least there's some protection regardless of who is driving it .mind you £400 per year rego ( road tax and basic liability )on a knackered Nissan in a rural area is criminal . ( oh and there's no mot).
In the Uk the MIB looks after aspects of third party liability when there is an issue with an uninsured driver. Uninsured vehicles are becoming harder to keep under the radar due to the need for insurance unless a vehicle is officially off the road (SORN). What with automatic number plate readers in place and in some police cars it is an easy nick for them to action.
My car and van are registered at my official low risk land based address however they spend most of their time at a high risk city centre address near the marina where I live during the week. It isn't uncommon for people to fail to tell the insurers this as the premiums can be significantly different and it is often hard to get the concept of two address through to the mainstream insurance market. Obviously my insurer knows the situation as they also cover the contents of our boat under the home contents policy I have.
I spent a fair few years investigating claims, well before Google and social media and various forums came along. It wasn't overly difficult to find things out as people are not good at covering tracks. Most insurers now will be searching all of the web and associated forums for hits on you if you claim to ensure what you declared is indeed correct as people have a tendency to brag about modifications and the such like.
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25 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:
I have the feeling the letter isn't giving us all the information we need.
I think you might be right......
Pretty sure Adrian Flux have just brokered a policy for CC'ers, although might be wrong.
The letter writer is also likely to run into other issues when she does find an insurer as having a policy cancelled by the insurer is a red flag for other insurers and could go against them quite badly.
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32 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Liveaboard ?
highly probably, yes an assumption on my part however I don't know of anyone who moors a boat on the canal/river in that area who isn't a liveaboard even if they pretend they are not to avoid having to use gas safe people
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Going to need a gas safe person and suspect you might get a better response on the London Boaters or New London Boater FAcebook pages (if you're not still waiting for admin approval)
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I've seen people use the plastic trims you get with double glazing. You might get some for free if you go and ask some local ones for old stuff they are just going to scrap. Otherwise I've also heard of people using old hosepipes a they squish down nicely.
My posh Polish interlocking paving bricks sit on a felt style membrane which is pretty intact, however I would have preferred it to be raised properly.
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21 hours ago, Steilsteven said:
No, of course not and remember that the fee is payable even if the boat sits on it's home mooring all year. It is not a cruising licence.
In the majority of cases however there are some marinas that this doesn't apply to.
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Mike, why do you want to drill and tap? What's wrong with nuts and bolts? Just asking.
perfectionism (I suspect) and not meant in a bad way
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I have a wet n dry vac too. Superb only £36.99 at screwfix
I have this too, did a great job of clearing up a flooded bedroom and carpet. Sits in my engine bay and been used as an emergency by at least half a dozen other marina residents when they've had panic station alerts on finding lots of water. Usually the kindness of a loan is repaid with wine or cake.
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Ive got Polyfloor Camaro loc. It wasn't that cheap however it is easy to fit (lays like click lock laminate and can be cut with a good Stanley knife) and pretty robust. We have two greyhounds who often run up and down the corridor and no signs of scratches or marks.
http://www.polyflor.com/jh/products.nsf/products!open&family=lux&prodcode=CamaroLocPU
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according to a recent post on one of London FB pages a boater has moored outside Paddington Station and been advised by Head of Security for British Land to move on as they have leased the moorings from CRT making the 3 moorings at the Northern end theirs. Nothing to confirm this other than some private signs having been put on the rings apparently. Just thought would mention it in case anyone knows anything else or it impacts any forthcoming plans
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Google French cleat and will probably be something similar to Mikl'es description and easy to make if you have access to a table saw or circular saw or a friend who does....
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Yes, Fiat had/has a Test Track on their Factory Roof,part of the pursuit and jump sequence was filmed on it
Fiat offered the sporty Abarth version of their 500 model for free,but the producers insisted on the Mini
CT
you can take tours of the track I believe.
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Just a couple of thoughts and I freely admit to being a dinosaur as far as boat heating is concerned but keeping things simple and being able to fix things is actually a) cheaper and b)more reliable. I worked on mobile libraries for 20 odd years and spent the majority of most winters freezing with no heating because the Eber or Webasto had bust. Eventually all the vans were fitted with two, expensive, identical units and even then there were problems, nice clean fuel, well charged batteries. I suggested storage heaters, plug in overnight and be warm in the day but it didn't happen but in a marina with shore power, why not? Or just use a reliable, gravity heating system and save a stack of money on the technology. As with lots of delicate and expensive stuff its expensive and prone to giving up and unfixable when its 10 degrees below and the spanners are frozen to the deck.
Storage heaters are useful IF you are home during the day, however by evening in a well insulated flat they were hardly of any benefit (plus you don't get economy 7/ over night rate electric in a marina).
Most flats in or around London have them as gas is expensive to install. My experience is they are rubbish, however maybe that was the dinosaurs that had been installed in the block and its of course possible that advances in technology have made similar items more effective.
ps in your mobile library example it would have been excellent and quite cheap too. Clearly the people who made the decision were not that clued up.
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If you need boat level easy access the disabled moorings are currently being utilised by CRT to moor Jena (she has been there for over a week now) for an "event" with no end date on the mooring restriction. Otherwise the "wall" only had one other vessel on the 24hour spot this morning on my way to the office.