tired old pirate

there is one still there at yardly gobion on the grand union, I saw it last month. Its not open and is part of the private residence of the lovely people who own baxters boat yard. I'm up there on monday doing some garden work and I'll ask if I'm allowed a picture. Its in a small room next to the old weighbridge which is all there still.

That sounds hairy Well done for getting safe and comiserations to the burned one, hope you get beter soon. I've heard that bit get like that sometimes when the levels go up, s'weird we r not far from yardley at the mo and havnt noticed any disturbance in the levels at all. Weirs and sluicesmust be doing their jobs.

Thanks, it will come down to individual councils interpretation of guidelines which always differs. If it has happened somewhere or been challenged legally that should set a precedent which you can use to force a local authority to change a decision. Not that hard if you can find the caselaw. I'll get hunting! BTW still wetting myself ova that marshalling video u found! going to show my kids this weekend

seems ironic to me that councils refuse to pay HB for mooring but would happily rehouse people using the rent deposit scheme. Local reference rents for bedfordshire is £600 per month which housing benefit will pay. If you r a buy 2 let landlord and register your property with the rent deposit guarantee scheme, housing benefit will pay your mortgage for you. Yet they would refuse £500 a year to help with a license. Hmmm. Not biting on the useful tasks comment you mischievious little scamp

wow thats interesting, methinks a judicial review or 2 of a refusal decision would set a useful precedent Can u apply to local authority without having a permanent mooring and stand a chance of getting ur license paid do u think?

just to let u know it ended up needig a new gearbox and got sorted. We stripped it and it was knackered. Thanks 4 all your help

do they pay for yours?

mooring fees is doable if you r on a real bona fide residential mooring, these r rare as hens teeth. Most marinas do not in fact have residential planning permission for more than a few boats and get round this by charging you for 9 or 10 months and tacking on a "supplement" which is usually carefully not called a residential supplement. If you try to claim HB they will inform you that you r ineligible as you r not permitted to reside at that address, unless you r moored on an actual mooring that has been granted full residential permission. Hence no council tax. By the way the DHSS is now called DWP. My friend applied afta loosing job on a mooring that he paid £3.5k a year and was deemed ineligible and lost challenge at appeal. What evidence you got? Thanks Mate

my last point on this b4 I descend into ranting. Please follow your arguments thru till their conclusion, what do you think should be done with all these unlicenced benefit scroungers who u have heard r having their licenses paid for by your hard earned tax money? should their boats be removed from the system and crushed? the occupants made homeless so you dont have to look at them? The cost of rehousing those people who r deemed to be in priority need would be significant. The cost of rehousing them would be bourne by you and me anyway as tax payers Many of the comments seem to be going down the tedious route of school ground classifying people as worthy or worthless scroungers who should not have human rights etc.. If you were in control what wd u do? Please b carefull, as soon as one starts making blanket judgements on ANY group of people and not actually finding out what their INDIVIDUAL situation is, how they got there etc. you have ceased to see those people as human beings and r viewing them as a group not individuals, this is always dangerous. Substitute the phrase "poor dears who r having their human rights infringed" for cockroaches and see how that feels. Chances r you do actually view those people as subhuman and question their right to exist. Genocide watch identifies dehumanising groups of people as a significant indicator of a potential genocide. I worked with genocide survivors for a while and one survivor told me not to assume that I would not take part in a genocide under the right conditions, she said that the people that killed in Rwanda were their teachers, lawyers bin men and next door neighbours who had had misinformation pumped into them and their views legitamised by the govt. I know its over dramatic but it made me very cautious of making any assumptions about any group of people without checking the facts first hand myself lest I be part of the problem instead of part of the solution. Thats in Africa I hear u cry, wouldnt happen in the UK. Crap. There r numerous acconts of people here taking action against people, harming them and killing them based on misinformation and ignorance. Remember the tabloid reading folk who tried to attack the peadiatrician during the publish the details of all convicted scedule 1 offenders campaign? My freind Sarah had her converted coach petrol bombed by local kids after stories about benefit scrouncing travellers in the late 80's. She worked for the local authority as a data entry clerk. Her one year old baby died in that attack and she was draped in burning plastic whilst trying to reach her dying baby. In the UK. Not trying to depress anyone but wheneva I hear views expressed like some of the ones I've just read on here I think of innocent people who have been killed by ignorance and get cross a bit. We r not allowed to kill people we dont like, and thats the only reason we dont, because there would be negative consequenses for us. Just think before you judge. Get to know the scruffy folk with their dodgy boats and find out who they really are and maybe even ask if they need help. challenge the hatred with love and the world gets a bit betta insted of worse. please.

I know that if DSS are paying the licence/mooring for someone they dont get one for the window Julian could you tell me where you get the info on DSS paying for the license/mooring fee? I used to b a benefits advisor and have not come accross this. As far as I know this dosnt happen and dont know under what regs it might. Unless you are on a real residential mooring and have fallen on hard times and happen to be renting your boat from a landlord. I suspect this DSS paying peoples licenses is a myth akin to the one published in the sun years ago about travellers recieving extra money for their dogs, was never true but entered public conciousness thru people believing crap that otha people tell them without checking facts.

Used to be in the stern tube till I broke my greaser......

Was just reading tgis post out and someone suggested putting a t shirt on the doggy when wet, front feet thru arm holes! Dont forget to take it off b4 they wee tho! Nothing 2 do with pram hoods but there u go....

I love mould, being hassled by mooring wardens and being looked down on by rich cnuts in shiny boats. Its hard to think of a way of life more suited to me

Direct line dont bat an eyelid at a poste restante address, my local post office has an actual address and if you dont stress the c/o bit (like just dont say the word!)thats fine, choose a post office in a posh place to minimise expense and bob is the relative of your choice. Mine came thru last week along with my new driving license which says co the post office!

fanatastic reply, thanks. I'll have a go with the guy tommorow, can I come back to you on this one tommorow? I'll get the full details of the box in the morn from the manual. should the propshaft still turn when in neutral? mine dosn't! this one does. In neutral it is turning theprop slowly, as soon as you put any significant power on it goes clonk and stalls, odd looking movement from the clutch cable too which is hard to describe. On the oil point wher on earth is the filler and dipstick! couldnt find one anywhere, I'm assuming that it does run on automatic transmission fluid!? The poor folk on the boat have not lots of money and they are on the way to rugby on a deadline. Would love to help them out.

just had a boat pull in behind me with a knackered gearbox I think, would appreciate a few opinions. The guy just bought the boat and has a deadline to meet getting to rugby ! prop shaft will turn freely, engine runs fine but when in neutral still turns the shaft slowly, when you put it into gear it sort of stalls,gearbox makes a clunky noise and stalls the engine. have diagnosed a broken clutch and recomended we get an engineer to have a look in the morn. Any ideas from anyone? anyone nearish milton keynes got a lister peter gearbox under their bed?

brilliant,thanks for that I will try and raise the cash!

Ooh thats a good idea, I'm with RSL and find the interest a bit scary, nice company tho. Is there a penalty for early repayment with RSL? how do they react when you pay them off?

and the clouds of noxious diesel fumes blown all over your boat by the amazingly smoky bukh engine contained therein whenever the poor unfortunate who lives in it tries to charge their batteries!! (I live in a viking afloat boat!)

I've got a friend who is a very experienced boat girl, she'd do it for you or come with you as a pilot if you feel really nervous, not sure what she'd charge but it wouldnt be much. Let me know if you want to take her up on it and I'll put you in touch.

eh? dont understand

ooh that is a difference, I run for about 1 1/2 hrs a day but only really run the fridge at the mo. would be nice to watch telly every now and then without starting the engine! would a genny thru an adverc do the same?