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doratheexplorer

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  1. 112 locks in 12 days is less than 10 locks a day. Not too bad.
  2. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rescue-Absorbs-Moisture-Damage-Smartphones/dp/B00I04MQ00/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_107_t_0/260-0608361-7731542?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=B7PVPVEWTB2TM90JNDGA Most recent smartphones are pretty impervious to water anyway. Mine is rated as being ok up to a metre depth for half an hour. You lot need to upgrade your phones.
  3. Many, many CMers would love to get a mooring but can't because there aren't any at any kind of reasonable price. So if CRT started charging them more, they'd all have to pay up. Or are you suggesting a continuous cruising licence should cost over £10,000pa?
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  5. I'd love to go there. I'm put off by having such trouble trying to moor. Lots of other boaters I know are too.
  6. Explain why so many trip boats go through Birmingham and the Black Country then?
  7. Ecover all the way here. I love the canals. Why would I needlessly do harm to the canal by using nasty poisonous products?
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  20. The Brum level by Lapworth was down yesterday. Maybe the leak is over this way? Maybe it's just lots of boats moving through the locks? The level does seems to go up and down quite a lot more than you'd expect for such a large pound.
  21. It's sorting out those blockages which puts me off a pump out. Sounds horrific and far worse than dealing with a cassette!
  22. There may be a general belief. It's not true though. Ask any police constable. Using common sense and discretion is an every day part of the job. In the case of displaying your boat name (or your paper licence for that matter), what would be the point of prosecuting? If the checker can see the index number and check that it's licenced, their job is done. Why would anyone want to add complication to that? Roving winter permits are a very different matter though. They came across like a protection racket: "pay up and we'll leave you alone". Having said that I've alway been puzzled by CRT winter moorings generally. To my mind they walk the tightrope of what is said in the 1995 Waterways Act, specifically in regards to the phrase "The Board are satisfied that a mooring or other place where the vessel can reasonably be kept and may lawfully be left". Essentially, CRT grant a winter mooring, thereby providing a short term place for the vessel to be kept". This is CRT acting as poacher and gamekeeper and doesn't sit easily with the intention of the legislation.
  23. They're not deviating from anything. In most situations, a prosecuting authority has discrection whether to use their powers. Technology has rendered this law largely obsolete so they use their discretion and regard it as de minimis. They could seek to have the law changed buit that would cost them time and money and they'd rightly be critisized for it.
  24. Yes, that's Bosworth Lady. Part of the away group fleet until about 3 years ago and now run by a Polish couple as a stand alone business.
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