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1 hour ago, mrsmelly said:
Paranoia is the word. That old fashioned phrase The worlds gone mad has come to fruition. If the worst case scenario hits the UK 250k will die, most of whom are ill already. That means 65 million 750 thousand will not die. Completely bonkers.
That is one way of looking at it. Another, and using your figures, is that one person in every 264, will die of this virus. If I look at my family, I have two sisters, and if we count me, them, our ascendents and decedents, and all of our partners, there are about 30 of us. My wife’s family the same. Thus I have approximately 60 close relatives. That means that about one in four family networks are going to be attending a funeral sometime soon (or not so soon given the backlog at the undertakers).
Of course you figures, suggest the worst, no one does anything scenario. Or, in a completely bonkers kind of way, we could all try and do something.
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3 hours ago, Grassman said:
It's only a rumour but apparently a marina in South Staffordshire near Fradley is considering suspending their toilet pump out operation and serving fuel to boaters due to the Coronavirus. Surely this is the height of paranoia?
This could have serious consequences especially for liveaboards if other marinas follow suit.
There is at least one fuel boat that covers that area. Halsall was with us today, pumped both tanks, filled the diesel, swapped the gas and loaded the roof with coal. Job done and ready to go. Neither they or Alton have any plans of stopping, unless they are forced to by the bug itself...
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4 hours ago, Ray T said:
No shortage of pet food. Pedigree Chum on toast. Mmmmmmmm.
Not sure you are right there. Our trusty pooch, for dietary reasons, has to have a brand of food that we can only get in limited places. Thus, we have to go to Waitrose for her (whilst we shop at Aldi). It appears that the good people of Cheshire, where we currently are, share our mutts taste (or at least there dogs do). Mind you it. Is not much less than pure chicken, so if push comes to shove....
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On 22/06/2008 at 13:38, Gobbledygook said:
What is the best magazine, that covers a wide spectrum and is the most informative ?
Don’t bother with a mag. CanalWorld Discussion Forum is all you need. The advice is free, non-judgemental, unbiased and accurate beyond reproach! Oh, hang on a minute...
...yeh, on second thoughts Waterways World is probably a better bet!
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7 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:
which is where?
Seemingly here...
https://www.awcc.org.uk/index.php
but not sure what, or indeed where on their website, the connection to Saul Junction is!
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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:
That information is no longer freely available
Yes it is, just rock up at your local council offices...
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6 minutes ago, MrBoat said:
They are a debtor with a fairly unique name. I think finding them through a canal or waterways organisation is the best way to track them down.
Not quite sure how knowing they own a boat, or not helps. Even if they do, there could be a shed laid of debt secured against it. Anyhow, what you going to do if they have, unilaterally lay claim to it? Surely your best course of action is through the courts, and if an order is granted, then it would be for the bailiff to decide how to recover your money.
The other thing to consider, is that actual ownership of a boat is really hard to identify. There is no registration document, like a car, and just because I pay the license fee, don’t mean I own it! There are a couple of cases where hire fleets have gone under, and the former owners have made fairly good efforts at hiding boats from the debtors. Mind you I know of a defunct removal firm where the directors managed to”lose” three 10ton lorries!
good luck, but don’t get your hopes up in regards to being the proud owner of a boat because of defaulted debt!
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1 hour ago, Nancy said:
Is a macerator flush pumpout wcto remote 34 gallon tank a problem. Seems small.
34 gallon is about 155 litres. That’s a bit small, but it depends how you are using the boat. We have two macerator toilets, each with a 300 litre tank, so 600 litres in total. We live aboard, and get about 5 weeks out of the pair. Under the same circumstances you would only get about 8 days. As others have said, the pump out cost will be the same (although obviously we pay twice for two tanks) so yours will be twice what we are paying...
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22 hours ago, David Mack said:
Website says:
Problem With Supplies
There has been an issue with the supply of brass plaques this year. We expect all currently unavailable plaques to come back into stock during February 2020.
If you want to be added to our list to be informed when they are coming back into stock them please use our contact form and tell me which plaques you are interested in.
And that’s why I said...
On 09/03/2020 at 19:46, The Dreamer said:I know he has been having problem with supply of bridge plaques,
But did not answer the rest of my question...
On 09/03/2020 at 19:46, The Dreamer said:but I placed an order two weeks ago, for product showing as in stock, expecting that it would be dispatched within 24 hours as per their terms and conditions.
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Anyone placed a recent order with this firm?
I know he has been having problem with supply of bridge plaques, but I placed an order two weeks ago, for product showing as in stock, expecting that it would be dispatched within 24 hours as per their terms and conditions. As yet I have not had it, nor can I elicit a response when trying to make contact.
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On 28/02/2020 at 12:44, Jess-- said:
on inland waterways they don't seem popular because
Apart from ar a Golden Nook Farm on the SUC, where the wind bows so heavily off of the Cheshire Planes, that it makes me wonder why anyone wood choose to moor there in the first place. Nevertheless every other boat has a turbine, most of which are running so fast, I would be surprised if they don’t burn out within a year...
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13 hours ago, Mike Adams said:
Great! I have found a 4LE1 on ebay which I will try to get.
Thanks again.
No problem. As I said, I downloaded this a few years back, but after a bit of skiffing around the net, I’ve just found the link again...
https://indigodream.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hmi-isuzu-manual.pdf
Might be useful to you?
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@Mike Adams According to the manual that I blagged, online, sometime ago, it looks to be the 4LE1...
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Lots of good advice here...
https://www.aerialsandtv.com/knowledge/aerials/aerials-for-caravans-and-boats
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7 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
But back in real life as opposed to internet forum life full of armchair experts
Not sure that any of the “armchair experts”, who posted before you, had said, or even implied that she could claim it as salvage! Anyhow, why is you “advice” anymore “expert” than anyone else’s?
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Would imagine that CRT hold the responsibility to deal with it, and subject to a court order, would effectively own the boat, with the right to sell it, if it holds any value, to cover their costs (section 7, BW act, 1983). In terms of you intent to salvage it, I suspect this could be seen to constitute theft, but might be worth discussing with CRT, to se if a deal can be done, should they decide to seize it.
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44 minutes ago, Markinaboat said:
even without the 0's, best boat on the cut!?
From memory it is moored at the bottom of Stoke flight on the W&B near Pinder's, and the paintwork has taken a few (too many) knocks. No wonder they have had to black her annually!
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Will use the laundry if we get Tolkien’s included in the mooring fee (why use our own electricity) and always for bulky items, such as dog beds, that won’t fit in our compact washer or dryer. Never feel inclined to use the loo or shower, except for a few days when we were over optimistic in regards to the pump out tank!
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30 minutes ago, JamesC said:
Hi,
I've been having a conversation with my wife about plans for retirement and whether a live aboard narrowboat is an option for us. Now, although we are still a long way off knowing where our two children will end up living, she is concerned that not having a house and instead spending our retirement on the cut would have a negative impact on our relationship with our children (and potential grandchildren).
So, I'm interesting to know how live aboard narrowboaters feel their situation either positively or negatively impact their relationship with their children (and other family members)?
My experience of both being a father, a son and a son-in-law, is that you could get knotted up trying to second guess where your relatives might end up living! With a boat you can move your home close to individual relatives as, and when desired/needed. We keep a car, and still see both kids and both sets of parents once a month either at our, or theirs...
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9 minutes ago, jonesthenuke said:
I use them when passing through the Birmingham locks, its easy to fill a
sackskip.Altered that for you! ?
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@RedsfanUk - just a note, you have probably breached copyright by posting full chunks of the survey here. Standard terms in, that most surveyors use, state:
...It must not be copied, reproduced, kept in any data bank, stored in an retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means whatsoever...
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2 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:
Just don't count the locks!)
Going to be less via the W&B, surely? Tardebigge is only a few more than Lapworth, so then it’s the rest of the W&B plus Diglis, vs. all the Avon locks.
BTW Avon lock won’t be manned at this time of the year, and it is hard work manually!
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29 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Part of the problem is that it is a single height number, when many of the low bridges and tunnels are arched. The profile of the boat counts for as much as the highest point. You see this in particular with Standedge Tunnel, where the rules and check gauges you have to pass before the CaRT boys and girls in blue will let you through measure the width across the cabin top as well as the highest point. The wider the cabin roof, the lower the maximum air draft they'll allow. For a particular canal, the low height might have come from a bridge, pipe line, or other obstruction that has since been removed, or rebuilt, yet the CaRT headline number has never been updated. The person compiling the list might be some office bod with no knowledge of that canal. If they wrote down a height that was too high and someone got stuck they would get in to trouble. If the height is too low, then owners of higher boats will either chance it and find it is fine, or not go at all. No bad come back for the CaRT person.
Jen
Yep, get all of that, so quite literally, one size does not fit all. Thus making the whole document a speculative guess on behalf of a very risk adverse CRT, and therefore it ain’t worth the paper it’s written on!
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Our boat is registered as having an air draft of 1.8m (6ft). I recently checked this, and indeed the highest non-moveable point is the Maxiview aerial, which comes in at spot on 1.8m. Last week, in planning a journey up the Trent and Mersey, I noted that on the CRT Waterways Dimensions document, it suggests that the whole canal from Preston Brook to Burton-on-Trent has an air draft maximum of 1.75m (5ft9in). I was not especially worried about this for three reasons. Firstly we used to own a share in a boat moored at Great Haywood. I cannot recall the hight of that vessel, but she did not present as being especially high, or low, and I could not think of any situations, rattling up and own the T&M, that caused us anything close to an issue. Secondly, our boat is ex ABC. For the last two decades ABC boats have been made, to a fairly standard pattern, at Pinder’s, fitted out at Alvechurch and then distributed to their various yards. Three of these, including Wrenbury Mill where ours was based, sit on or close to the Four Counties Ring, and therefore the boats will need to be able to travel the T&M without issue. Lastly, at a pinch, if we got to a bridge and found ourselves to be in a sticky situation, we could pull over and I could dismantle the Maxiview to bring the height down. So last Monday, off we set from Fazeley.
Yesterday we turned on to the Middlewich Branch, at Wardle Junction (or, for the pedants, we turned onto the Wardle Canal), having had no issues with height at all. In fact, we also have a quick release mast for the 4g aerial, that raises 25cm (10in) over the Maxiview, that stayed up the whole time, and two roof boxes, that raise about 15cm (6in). These are designed to lift off and stack in the seated stern area of the semi-trad, but we had no cause to even contemplate doing so. In short we came through a whole area, marked by CRT as being 1.75m, at height of 2.05m. The closest we got was Newcastle Road (115), which CanalPlan AC warned us about, but did not offer a height, in the event we had a good 10cm (4in) to spare.
To some degree none of the above bothers me, but with a height discrepancy of 25cm, at some point I am going to become complacent and get seriously caught out, so how hard can it be for CRT to get these dimensions more accurate?
Hurleston
in General Boating
Posted · Edited by The Dreamer
The good people on Fuel Boat Halsall, told me, last Thursday, that one of the other fuel boats had be allowed through as a “test”, so looks like all is on schedule. Due to work commitments changing, because of Covid planning, we are looking to go through next Saturday or Sunday, so like you, we hope that it reopens on Friday evening!