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StephenA

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  1. 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?
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. 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".....
  7. 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.
  8. 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...
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  10. What happens if it snags on something in the canal - like a shopping trolley, car etc.....?
  11. 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.
  12. Brewing in your loo tank?
  13. PLA (which I think covers the tideway) states and the CRT "Boaters Handbook" states: So Its not totally "It is legal to drink and boat for leisure boaters"
  14. I don't think the derelict boat outside the pub helps. Maybe putting notices further away from the pub showing the opening times would help... I must admit that its not on our list of stopping places because of its opening times (and partially because 6X is a pretty uninspiring beer nowadays) - and if you get there and it's closed I don't think there is a notice saying when its going to be opening.
  15. It wasn't complicated when we were with Tom's Moorings.... one person dealt with the mooring fees and the other paid the licence fee, insurance etc. Seems a perfectly sensible way of splitting the cost of keeping a boat on the canal. As their mooring form needs a lot of the information that they've already got for the boat registration (name, licence number, length etc) - that would imply that their systems aren't linked together. As for email - they wrote (snail mail) to my brother and got their own email wrong, so my brother guessed what it was and it then took them more than a week to respond.
  16. Can anyone confirm if CRT are capable of handling the following situation: Boat is licensed at one address and paid from one account Moorings are paid from a different account at a different address. CRT recently took over the moorings we're on and although Tom's moorings had my address CRT sent the paperwork to my brothers address (where the boat is registered). I filled in all the paperwork and the DD mandate and put my address on it. DD mandate failed - CRT sent a letter to that effect to my brother and NOT to me. They claim the only address they have on the system is my brothers (despite me giving them my address).. It did take them nearly 3 months to actually get this far.... how can any charity be allowed to be so incompetent?
  17. There are actually 66 boats built by "Brummagen", broken down into these three different builder names: +----------------------+----------------+ | builder | count(builder) | +----------------------+----------------+ | Brummagen | 5 | | BRUMMAGEN /ALVECHURC | 1 | | Brummagen Boats | 60 | +----------------------+----------------+ The problem is that the field is free text.. maybe I should change Brummagen to Brummagen Boats
  18. Hanwell bottom lock and the Junction with the river Brent
  19. You can always adjust it - but we have to have some reasonable defaults.. If we put it at 10 minutes per lock then someone would no doubt complain that it was totally unrealistic.
  20. No moorings in Market Drayton at all apparently - not even fully occupied
  21. And from time to time the rules get enforced.. http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Angler-fined-illegal-fishing-near-Tewkesbury/story-27975468-detail/story.html
  22. How long does it take for CRT to get their act together over processing mooring applications? We're moored at what was Tom's Moorings in Market Drayton. In August they wrote to us and included all the paperwork to apply for a mooring there (to take over from when our "current agreement expires"). I sent all the paperwork back and we've heard nothing. We were mooring there paying quarterly and that quarter expired at the end of July. So we're still sitting on our mooring - using the electricity when we're on the boat - and paying nothing right now. CRT have been and plastered "Private Moorings Keep off the Pontoons" notices all over the place (Oh how they LOVE their notices) but apart from that have done nothing (we have two rotten / broken planks on our pontoon and one of the steel mooring T-studs has sheared off).
  23. You can do Tarleton to Glasson Dock by going down the Ribble and up the coast......... and don't forget what they did in Narrow Dog......... and I think I recall a narrowboat doing Ireland to Scotland a few years ago too....
  24. Quite sensibly so!! The route across the Wash is marked as a navigable route - there isn't one to Swansea....
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