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As you have found the surveyors details perhaps you could ask the surveyor to amend the expiry date. Assuming you do have the previous certificate of course.

Good suggestion. The surveyor should have emailed the certificate to the OP .

The OP says he is not a C&RT customer BSS contact form https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/contact-us/contact-us-form/

Yes there are multiple options whether boaty or otherwise . If paying up means £15k a year as suggested it is obvious that folks will look elsewhere . It is already possible to make a donation of £15k a year if individuals wish to do so but I doubt most boaters feel obliged to donate when they are already paying fees. It does seem a historical under charging of licence fees is being blamed on the present situation while the real problem is that government doesn't appreciate that the canals are a national asset that deserves to be maintained. That could be an issue but not a reason to avoid closing canals to navigation as an option. Let say its done initially on a phased/trial basis so the impacts can be monitored.

Conventional holidaying in hotels/ b&b'sh/package holidays abroad Cruises Camping/caravan/motorhome holidays Inland waterways boat hire holidays abroad Owning and keeping a boat in the EU (eg Netherlands /Belgium /France) Coastal boating in the UK Owning a holiday home abroad eg France /Spain

There is no way that would work as other options/activities would become much more financially attractive .

I dare say nature will fairly quickly take over canals that are not used by boats . But that doesn't necessarily prevent the canal from being restored in the future. Giving the Grantham canal as an example there have been very low bridges built over it and at the R.Trent end the canal was built over. completely , cutting off the connection to the river . This sort of thing shouldn't be allowed but most of the general public don't understand that and don't care . Unfortunately the end of some canals as navigable waterways may well be in sight.

Which is not likely anytime soon. There are other priorities that are far more important than the canals. C&RT simply have to work with the budget they have. It does seem likely that some canals will need to be closed to navigation. The challenge will be to do so in a way that that would allow the closed canals to be restored to navigable status at some future time.

Maybe a society that has overseen the construction of locks i recent years could help , in return for a suitable donation. http://www.granthamcanal.org/gchi-blog11318/

We were at Torksey today (by road) .i am pleased to report the former tea room has opened as a coffee shop. Open Wednesday to Sunday . The pontoon on the tidal side is still there There were sandbags with plastic covers placed in lines as if to defend against the gates over topping but they looked clean so perhaps the water remained just below the gates. The water level is still fairly high but nothing like it would have been in the floods. Even now the fields are saturated so the slightest rain causes the river to rise . We need a dry spell.

I see this is almost a year old but just wondering if the OP has some images of the paint job in progress /when completed.

Depending on the sewer network the source could be some distance away.

On the canal oil thing clearly some commercial operation is putting waste oil into a drain which they should not be doing at all (even if its a foul sewer) . The sewer may be blocked by the fat and if its a very old sewer there may be an overflow into the canal. Or maybe they are using a surface water sewer which is even worse. Any oily contamination like this will easily be spread by the wind and by any flow, however small that flow may be, in the canal. Hopefully the source of the oil will soon be discovered by the relevant authorities.

You refer to complaints of the forum of gentrification But according to your post on another topic its just discussion. Its not real.

But let's not forget what you wrote only a few days ago

Steel narrowboats commonly use bituminous blacking which is toxic to the aquatic environment so in theory should act as a form of antifouling. But bituminous paint on a GRP hull is not appropriate. Bituminous paint on a narrowboat hull is easy to touch up . Narrowboats tend not to use fenders eg when going through locks so the side s get scraped while GRP boats do use fenders and boating is much less of a contact sport for the vast majority of GRP boats. An epoxy coating could be used on both steel and GRP hulls but antifouling paint below the waterline is commonly used on GRP. Epoxy paint alone has no antifouling properties apart from being a smooth surface that may be cleaned. Really a GRP hull should be epoxy painted below the water line when new to create a surface that is less permeable than the polyester gel coat but this seem rarely to be done in practice.

That will be 9m2 per litre. At the weekend I applied a coat of antifoul with the same coverage rate to my 33ft boat and 2.5L was just sufficient. So you can be confident that 3 litres will be sufficient. --

Its all madness If you stay in a marina and the mooring fee is paid then surely there is no problem. You are outside of any place where C&RT mooring restrictions apply. It cannot be regarded as overstaying. Overstaying only applies when you moor at the side of the waterway. Overstaying rules including signposted restrictions less than 14 days apply to all boats regardless of license type. If you have paid for a CC license you can stay in a marina as long as you like If you have paid for a genuine home mooring you can continuously cruise as long as you like.

Why would the index be changed When there is a change of owner the index stays with the boat . Maybe it was so long ago they did thing differently.

Not really a problem. In those circumstances there is more than enough other stuff going on. I certainly wouldn't suggest rushing to do anything about it until the existing license was in its last month. Then simply start a new licence in the surviving partners name from the 1st of the next month.

Sounds like the end is in sight for the canals . Or at least for some canals. Any ideas which canals cost C&RT the greatest to keep in navigable condition? I am thinking it will take a significant closure or two to alert the public and the government to the possibility of what might be lost.