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And another question: In a scale from Jet-ski to Widebeam barge, when does a "privately owned motorized craft" be defined as a home?

Next question then: What is the difference between a privately owned motorized craft and a narrowboat?

Thankyou - I was sure I said no such thing ?

Does "OP" mean original poster?

Monday 11th May Coronavirus Update from Damian Kemp, Boating communications manager, CRT stated “At this stage we continue to advise that boats should only be used for minimal travel.” Tuesday 12th May Coronavirus Update from Damian Kemp, Boating communications manager, CRT stated “only those living on their boat can make short essential trips” Can we, or can we not, go for a cruise? And as it is only advice, do we do as the Prime Minister said and use our common sense? i.e make our own mind up.

Suggestions: Practice making your point in 30 seconds or less. Move your boat to a water point to fill up and then moor up somewhere else.

Judging by the succession of boats through Hillmorton Locks and the mass of people sunning themselves and picnicking by the towing path, I would have thought that your one-off trip would be accepted. However - IF someone in authority was to turn up and actually enforce the rules that were made for the benefit of us all, then I would say that you should comply with them.

Doddington Lock?

I am (reliably) informed that the folk in these pics are all from the Ward Family. Perhaps some of you could name them?

I hesitate to make an alternative suggestion and hope its not an upsetting idea but I am touched by your story and my sister was in a slightly similar position. Not wanting to get rid of a boat that had meant a lot to her but not practical to spend thousands on it, even if she had that sort of money she came up with a solution.. She had space in the garden of her house and had the boat brought by road and put on blocks. It did cost, but not anywhere near as much as repairing and keeping it on the water. Over the years she made it into a delightful guest room. Now you may of course not have such a space but I thought I would mention it. I do hope you receive some of the good luck that you are certainly due.

A huge task well done would you allow a well meant observation? After all your work to overlay the Google map, it is inevitable that during the time it has taken, the Google part goes out of date as premises and their ownership/businesses change so is it technically possible to overlay your whole work on top of the most up to date Google map?

If I wasn't confused enough already - your answer#10 ["No, but you have much bigger problems (potentially life-threatening)"] seems to say that my extension lead must be earthed or I risk killing someone but contradicts your latest answer that suggests using such a lead on a boat is OK. But then I seem to have misunderstood all the rest so I may well be wrong again.

OK so just as I thought I understood this earthing thing, you electrickery folk have me confused again. What you seem to be saying is that if I run my extension lead to the boat to use for working electrical tools etc, I must earth it to the hull. AND as my original question was "do I need a G.I." (I use the initials because I am not sure how to spell the words) to which the answer was "no", as it MUST be earthed to the hull (and not back to the building RCD where I plug in the lead) the answer is "yes". Is that correct? And by the way, to the person who said I should have a consumer unit on the boat, my extension lead ends with a 13amp socket equipped with an RCD, so no I don't.

Mr AdeE was being very knowledgeable and helpful but I regret I did not understand entry #32. The think I understand what Mr NN is saying in entry #33 and accept it is sound sense. All I have to work out now is what to earth which earth wire to where. I am however left wondering why in some 40 years of canal boating, half of which has been living on such a boat, that no one has explained this before.

I am sure you know a lot more about this than me - which is why I asked the question but I think of it as an extension lead powering an electric drill etc. There is an earth going from the drill - through the plug and its socket and down the wire to an RCD and on to a mains outlet with another RCD on shore. So to my simple mind, there is an uninterrupted earth all the way back to the fusebox in the shore building. The hull is not involved at all. Surely IF there was an incident where say, a wire from the electric drill was damaged and the live wire touched the hull, one of the RCDs would detect it and trip? If that is not the case then is it unsafe for instance to use an electric lawn mower in case a live wire is cut into and electrifies the metal handles ?

I should have explained that mine complies with the above and although advisory, the examiner did examine the wire and sockets, the RCD on the boat and the RCD on the shore into which it plugs, and state they were safe so I am left alarmed by the accusations of potentially killing passers by and myself!

If you have a shoreline but it is not earthed to the boat i.e. a rather permanent extension lead, do I still need to fit a GI?

I only voted for two and it seemed to accept that.

Equipment at the bottom lock records the emptying and filling of a lock without the volunteer having to be there although I understand that they do record the ones that pass through when they are there, just for their own record keeping.

Not exactly a joke but I was trying to use humour to perhaps prompt the realisation that the difference between the 9000 movements claimed for boats passing through Hillmorton Locks and the 8362 movements actually recorded at the bottom locks could be that many boats (say 638) come down the flight merely to wind in the boatyard entrance so they use 6or7 and 4or5 but not 2or3.

And the 8362 movements at Hillmorton is only for the twin bottom locks 2&3 - Whatever boats were responsible clearly all then disappeared into a black hole as there are no movements listed for the other two twinned locks at Hillmorton!!!

Nick Wolfe was also involved with Aldgate.

My first ever trip on a boat I had just bought was single handed in a raging storm on the Thames from Reading to Brentford and I did just that. That was some 30 years ago and I have since done the same on the Trent and other rivers. Plan to do the same on the Avon/Severn next year. Sometime has got to be your first time.