StephenA

Anglers are being reminded of the importance of getting rod licences after a man was ordered to pay £900 for illegal fishing in a beauty spot near Tewkesbury. Fisherman Ladislav Kobak, was fined after Environment Agency bailiffs found him breaking the rules at Stanchards Pit, off the River Avon in Tewkesbury in September last year Read more: http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/cheating-rest-Reaction-man-fined-illegal-fishing/story-29146769-detail/story.html#ixzz46O9qPxvm

Is it? If the only reason a different email address was used was to avoid detection it could be seen that you obtained a licence through deception... which I suspect may be seen as a valid reason to withdraw the licence...

Well yes - but if you search for a name and nothing comes back then .......

I thought that too - they must have opened the hatch, reached in, pulled the bolts and opened the doors and then walked through the boat in the dark without bumping into anything, or waking anyone. Sounds like a huge risk to take as you can't exactly make a quick getaway from inside a boat.

We did Worcester to Alvechurch one day and then Alvechurch to Fazely the next....

Actually I was thinking of fitting a periscope

I was going to ask if it had a remote start option putting a timer on that makes a lot more sense

Our Optimus central heating boiler needs a new controller block which will cost about £400. So I'm considering alternatives. The Optimus has a balanced flue which exits through the roof and its installed in a "cupobard" to one side of the central door at the back of our boat. Ideally something that fits into the same space and possibly using the existing hole in the roof would be ideal. Anyone got any suggestions? Steve

Maybe some people from the Marina think that going up and down Audlem in a long weekend is a bit mad... it isn't actually but then again we used to go up and down the Wigan flight on long weekends ....

I remember going through there one morning and we jumped up and down on top of the boat but no-one saw us....

Plenty of good pubs - brother has done quite a good pub crawl there. If you have an android phone there is an app called Real Ale pubs which works quite well

And Computer PSUs are not only 110 to 240/50 volts capable but also 50 - 60 Hz capable too.

Most computer supplies are 120-240v auto sensing so it shoudn't be a voltage problem - could it be a phase issue which the cheap and nasty power supply in the desktop PC isn't handling too well?

If you've not installed Backitude then install it from the Android App Store You need to have a canalplan account for this to work From your Android Device login to Canalplan on the website Then find your boat from the boat index "Like" your boat Then go the Manage Track Settings Select your boat and if you want public or private tracking (private means only you can see it) Then down load the backitude settings You can do steps 2 to 5 from a browser but you need to download the Backitude config on your android device. If you can't do that then you can download the config on your regular browser but then you'll need to get the config file onto your android device. Then before you start cruising enable the Backitude service in the Backitude app. Don't forget to stop it at the end of each day (to save polling) or if you you walk away from the boat (you might get some odd tracks when you do that).

Canalplan can also track your location using Backitude - it records your current location : http://canalplan.org.uk/boats/tracking.php?current=92041 and overnights are identified and shown on a map when you log a journey.

So you have a boat moored in a marina on a canal (I've no idea if they offer residential moorings or not - if not then that could well be a breach of their T&Cs). The primary business of a marina is to provide moorings for boats who use the canal they are connected to, and to provide ancillary services such as fuel supply, chandlery etc and often throw a bar in as well. You have decided to use a boat as a floating home with no intention of ever using the canal. Is it unreasonable for CRT to expect that boats in a marina connected to CRT waters are actually going to go out onto the canal and aren't just floating cottages?

For the same reason that I can't keep a car on my drive and not pay road tax but decide to take it out every alternative weekend to drive to a pub.

We're on Tom's moorings there - never had any problems with anything there and the moorings opposite us back onto houses and the towpath is quite busy. Never heard anything from anyone else who has moored there (on any of the visitor moorings) and have talked to some semi "regulars" who in the pub who I guess if they had stuff stolen wouldn't have become regular visitors. So it seems that the stories are all "Someone told me that they had problems... but I never have".....

OK - wasn't thinking straight. However calculating how much HP you are using on a canal is going to be pretty much impossible... Even pushing up the Tidal Trent against the flow (plus some tidal) we got no where near that consumption level which suggests even then we weren't pushing the engine too much.

That sounds wildly inaccurate for a BMC 1.5.- that would mean we'd burn 8 to 10 gallons a day which would empty our tank in less than a week...

What happens if it snags on something in the canal - like a shopping trolley, car etc.....?

Due to the shape of a narrow boat and the canals they are used on the only place that you could really have a fixed ladder would be at the stern. If you have a trad stern then there wouldn't be anything to get hold of on the deck to help you complete the climb out of the water (think how lock ladders extend above the top of the lock) and if you have a cruiser stern then you'll have something to hold on to but you'll have to climb over the rails. Cutting a hole in the rudder has been suggested but what is going to stop the rudder from turning when you put your foot in the hole and basically lean on it as you start to climb out.

Brewing in your loo tank?