StephenA

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"

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.

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.

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?

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

By the power of Google:

Hanwell bottom lock and the Junction with the river Brent

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.

No moorings in Market Drayton at all apparently - not even fully occupied

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

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).

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....

Quite sensibly so!! The route across the Wash is marked as a navigable route - there isn't one to Swansea....

Police have arrested two men following a fire at a warehouse in Gloucester. The fire happened within a derelict warehouse near the Peel Centre on St Ann Way at around 6.45 on Saturday evening(October 3). Two men, both 19 and from Gloucester have been arrested on suspicion of arson and are currently in police custody. https://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/news-room/two-men-arrested-following-gloucester-warehouse-fire/ Seen way too many occurrences of "accidents" where things got burned down usually before redevelopment started... http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Derelict-Starvehall-Farm-house-Prestbury/story-24682180-detail/story.html being just one recent example

Ah the old "fixing it up will cost too much... oh look it caught on fire" trick.

We certainly find that after a good long run the hot water on Mintball is certainly warm enough for a shower the next morning.

There are still a few issues but given what we had to cope with ( new version of the O/S, new version of apache, php, new versions of major utilities such as GD etc, ) its not been as bad as it could have been and we're back to the usual data throughput.... currently standing at 200GB for the year so far

I've assigned the issue to Nick. PDFs are generating but I guess something isn't quite right as some times the processes seem to get stuck.

CRT regulations about running engines whilst moored....