BoatinglifeupNorth

Oh sorry, I should have put Thread not post. I wasn’t referring to you, but the Thread starter, as it’s he who hasn’t a boat and like many I think it’s all in his head about building one. Please accept my apologies for the confusing error.👍

How would he know what’s it like on a Narrowboat, he’s never been on one never mind lived on one🤔

Sorry I edited that, just can’t be bothered to carry on the chat, like most on here I imagine.

How are they the poorest in society? maybe you should have a look around large cities, far more people in need than CMer’s, CCer’s Tell the truth I can’t take this or you seriously and now I realise why I shouldn’t reply to you or be ar$ed with anything you say.

York, Selby, Sheffield, Doncaster a few off the top of my head. Basically the majority of city’s that the canal system passes through, a bit of a pointless post by someone that’s boat-less and doesn’t even know where he’ll be in 12 month🤔🤔

So we just turn the canals into a static floating home system? and those that would like to move would never get out of tick over due to the 1000’s of moored linear boats. Once again your ideas border on the ridiculous.

As I said in the first couple of posts here, I think they should look at how they get rid of the unlicensed boats problem and the overall squatters problem. I think a lot would be in favour of a quicker plan shorter than 10 years, maybe 2 years would be better.

I think they would need more than a few extra bins to accommodate an extra 5000 CCers, expecting a comfortable homestead lifestyle every few miles for a few weeks. That link seems to be leisure moorings. Not really suitable for what you were saying about solving a housing crisis and most too short to be suitable for comfortable living on a boat.

So where would these new CCers, empty their toilets, ditch their rubbish, fill their water, charge their new electric boats? Oh CaRT would have to build and provide a new facility’s infrastructure to make sure they were all happy and provided for.😂😂 No, please tell us what they’re charging and where. It would be interesting to know.

Obviously the best place would be in a city with a Cathedral or large Minster and a canal running through, not rocket science😂

It’s a National problem, yes more boats per mile on the K&A and London, but the problem still exists up North, everyone on here seems to think the Northern waterways aren’t used “Go North young man with your family and widebeam” they are coming up North. The problem is Northern waterways haven’t got 200-300 plus boat Marina’s and most of the Marinas are full, yet the boats are increasing every year and yes they are Cmer’s causing issues.

Branson Boats do Dutch Barge kits. https://www.dutch-barges.net/steel_kits.html

And the canals will be all tarmac’d over for the use of electric cars only👍

Obviously the chap in the orange hi viz is lead volunteer, until the blue hi viz shows up 👍😂

How many hands on Deck? Did any of the full immersion suite RCR guy’s actually get that wet? Chest waders? 3 man job at the most. Lots of me-to-you, you-to-me passing of things and luminous jackets doing nothing really, hey volunteer’s looking the part of lifelong life on the cut, just shows how a lot of canal restoration volunteers are just playing the part and when push comes to shove they’re out of they’re depth.😂

You still will have to be careful with the points I mentioned earlier of getting through your Pram cover windscreen if you don’t collapse it and you’ll have to travel with it collapsed or rolled up, not ideal in inclement weather, also getting past your solar panels, maybe move them forward and put to one side to create a safer walkway. I would use climbing on the roof this way only when needed and necessary where circumstances dictate. I would still get a couple of the steel (not plastic) folding steps fitted, maybe two each per side and close together, to do 3 steps up instead of 2 to get on the roof.

Please don’t start a petty argument, like has happed before and derail the Thread into a tit for tat argument.

That seems more up to date than the speculation on this forum👍 Please put a link on so people can view if they wish and everyone is singing from the same song sheet👍

Sorry bridge 😂

How can you tell? The one on the right is different, it also has a pram hood by the looks of it, the others are too far away. None of the boats in that picture look like the stolen boat. I think this is all starting to get a bit confusing, especially with people thinking it’s the boat in the lock and theories about putting on false windows. As @Peugeot 106 says the stepped cants and the handrail will be the obvious features to identify, along with the square stern deck drains.

You switch your inverter on and hope you have enough means of charging the batteries👍😂

What Facebook group did this come from?

Hopefully they’ll have a good look at removing non licensed boats and deal with them with a stronger hand and not look solely at getting more revenue from increasing everyone’s licence across the board.

But she’ll have to crawl through the Pram cover windscreen hole if up or crawl over folded canopy and frame if down, then transverse over her solar panels before she gets to a suitable walking area on the roof. I would go Gunwale route with appropriate spaced folding steps and reposition/stagger my solar panels to create a safer walk area.

Just as I was puzzled that it was suggested it’s heading for Sheffield. As it would of passed through a few manned and bookable through CaRT flights to get there, so they would have to clone a boat name/number as couldn’t do it with it’s own registered name/number if CaRT are aware it’s a stolen boat.