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Thomas C King

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  1. Facebook is designed to waste time, not to find information quickly. The absolute best software for finding information, in my opinion, is the StackExchange system (which isn't freely available). Forums like this coupled with Google are also decent. But then, Facebook isn't just about the software, but also the social network itself. I check it regularly for canal stuff to see which tea leaves are near our mooring, and also to read the occasional argument about hirers etc. No useful answer to the OP, sorry.
  2. Is it always irregular when going astern? I find it really changes depending on wind and current. Sometimes easy, othertimes not.
  3. On canals with single-gate locks, do they have the same problem? Wondering why CaRT volunteers tell people to use two gates. Do single-gate locks need a lot more repair?
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  18. Techno is pretty straightforward, being characterized by a rhythm in 4/4 time.
  19. Already aware of this. And I agree, the regular "problem boaters" are a far bigger annoyance, and the biggest threat imo to boating (as they may cause an overreaction from society in general). Example, there is an ongoing dispute near Saltford. Homeowners complaining about boaters, in one case a homeowner unmoored a boat that they didn't want in front of their house (they were given ASBOs). Here, I think some homeowners are being a**seholes. HOWEVER, when we moored there it was obvious that some boaters (shed-boats, specifically) were overstaying and being a general nuisance with engine running etc. Would the homeowners be a**seholes to all boaters, were it not for the few generally difficult boaters? Not sure, but the difficult minority seem to be harming the rule-obeying majority (if it is a majority, not sure anymore). In Brentford now, we'll see if it's a similar trend round here as we head up the GU.
  20. On hirers. Some are a bit inept, but I am also seeing some who are overly-apologetic because people have a go at them for little-to-nothing. An example: some folks on the K&A turning at a non-winding point, but where there was plenty of space (more than many official winding points). Someone yelled at them. They weren't in the way. Even before that incident, I spoke to them and they were saying they were not trying to upset anyone when coming close to our boat (I was neither upset nor worried). In other cases, some are pretty annoying, like those mooring at water points or lock landings. But the majority are fine.
  21. Never realised that you don't like certain YouTubers
  22. That makes sense. The signs say "no mooring" in big print, and "except for the first 24 hours" in very small print below. The second bit is a right conferred so that navigation is feasible, I assume. If that's a correct assumption, are most landowners who say "no mooring" (with no exceptions) on the Thames actually obliged to "allow" 24 hours? E.g., the royal estate at Windsor lol. It's a bit worrying if the 24-hour moorings are abolished, can councils do that legally? I'd be dead if we'd done Reading to Teddington in a day, it took us 17 hours.
  23. We moved down from Reading to Brentford over the weekend. When in Kingston(-upon-Thames) we noticed that there were some boats on the short-term moorings that look like they never move (though I might be mistaken). Example below. I know the Duke's cut in Oxford doesn't have mooring limits enforced by CRT or EA, I was just wondering if this is a wider trend? No intention of taking the piss ourselves, obviously.
  24. Well, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. I was expecting it to be much higher. Perhaps they were proposing a low figure that is still insufficient, because they were expecting push-back. But pretty irrelevant what I want.
  25. Do we know how much more? I would guess that most wouldn't be willing to pay significantly more, but it is worth considering whether pricing some out (as harsh as that sounds) could solve a few problems (less myopically, move those problems back onto land).
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