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On 20/06/2021 at 09:50, peterboat said:
Or it could be a self pump out Alan! All the composting toilet owners I know do it properly you are assuming that they don't. I have seen elsan contents emptied in hedge bottoms and in rivers and canals!
Not a self pump out using the elsan at Hillmorton. It's impossible
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Sainsburys do £1 delivery so I have ditched Morrisons. Surprisingly Sainsburys is often cheaper that Morrisons. Iv'e been using both during the lockdown.
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It is horrifying how many cassette users empty their cassette into an already blocked elsan point.
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14 hours ago, Tony1 said:
You make some very good points here, and whilst I agree with most, it might be worth adding in a slightly different perspective to some of them.
My initial mistake was to buy a £200 suitcase genny from Amazon, which was advertised as silent.
I knew that for £200 it wasn't really going to be silent, but I was dismayed at how 'not silent' it was. I think it was about 90db at 5 metres away, which is a lot.
I did consider making a box to house it, and lining it with some noise-reducing panels, but in the end I gave it away to someone who could put it to good use.
I'm concerned that I have no contingency plan for the engine failing in winter, but on the other hand I dont really want to have a genny sat in the cratch for the next few years unused, until the dreaded day of engine failure comes.
My boat is now about 6 years old, so fingers crossed I'm not expecting any major failures in the next couple of years (and I have RCR to fix minor things)- so at the moment I'm rather uneasily gambling that I wont need a genny.
The solar panels mean that my period of being 'at risk' is reduced a lot.
I have almost 1400 watts of6 solar, which generates the electricity I need for about 75% of the year. Even today, in early Feb, because there was a bit of sun this afternoon I got 1800 watt hours of charge into the batteries, and I havent had to run the engine for the last 2 days.
The other mitigation I have is that I can charge the batteries at 90amps or more, so even in winter I can get a days charge in about an hour. Some days, if there is a bit of sun, its half an hour.
I have a sort of fall-back plan that if I do have a major engine failure, I can order a new genny from a local supplier, and hire a small van to get it to the boat.
But being honest, I'm not convinced that plan would go as smoothly as I've made it sound, and it is a bit of a nagging doubt.
You are worrying unnecessarily. It may be a problem with an ancient engine but unlikely with a new boat. 6 years is still new.
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22 hours ago, mrsmelly said:
Many people on boats didnt have tvs, Sue lived aboard when most people didnt have mobile fones and certainly not smart fones/computers. We have all over the years got used to far more lectrical stuff than we realy need. 12 volt only is no problem for basic living. I myself had moocho lectric available on my last few boats but it isnt realy necessary.
I did have a smart phone (I phone) and laptop both worked well on 12v. We used an inverter very infrequently if we needed 240v.
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23 hours ago, Jak said:
Where did you get your leccy from? Our boat was 12v only to start with, but I still wanted to watch my 12v telly and charge my phone….Leisure batteries. No TV although I used laptop every evening on 12v. Gas fridge. Phone charged on 12v.
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We survived for 25 years with no solar or generator. The engine didn't need running daily either.
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Has anyone tried the local council? We had a noisy neighbour (land base) and the local council has a department dealing with nuisance. I see no reason why they can't act on water based neighbours. You can also report to police.
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You can't please all the boaters. Please one and you annoy another. I'm not at all surprised he prefers to ignore boaters views.
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2 hours ago, David Mack said:
Indeed. In the run up to what became the 1995 Act, British Waterways proposed that all boats should have to have a home mooring. Some individual boaters and boating organisations objected, arguing that there were a few people who did indeed cruise continuously and extensively for most or all of the year and had no need of a permanent mooring, being unconstrained by the need to be in one place for employment, education or other reasons. Such people were either retired, or of independent means i.e. reasonably wealthy, or had a job that could be carried out almost entirely from the boat. And in a pre-internet age that was limited to writers, artists and the like who didn't need significant quantities of electricity or space to carry out their activity. At the time nobody really considered liveaboards who might move only shortish distances over a limited area to stay within reach of a workplace etc.
The result was the addition to the Act that no home mooring was needed if the boat stayed in one place for no more than 14 days (or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances), with the onus clearly placed on the boater to satisfy the Board that this is indeed the case. This addition was a last minute fudge to get the Bill through, with the result that 'place' was not adequately defined, neither was any requirement stated as to how extensively a boat had to travel, or how soon it could return to a previous location.
And the result has been that neither boaters nor BW/CRT has had clarity as to where the boundary between compliance and non-compliance lies. And when BW/CRT have tried to define this boundary more precisely, the courts have struck down some of that definition. So CRT can only effectively chase the most obviously non-compliant, hence statements that a range of less than 20 miles in a year will put you on the enforcement radar, without giving any guidance as to how much more range would definitely be acceptable.
Another important fact was that marina moorings were scarce at the time. It would have created more problems if boaters had taken moorings and then not used them, which is what would have happened.
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Roger Jeffries was involved with a hirebase there many years ago. I will try and find out more. It was over 40 years ago, soon after the arm was reopened.
More info. Welford Canal Boats in the 1970's Tit Willow was bought for a hire boat. The partners were Phil Gardner; Bob Atkins and John Phillips and Roger. All dead now.
It was taken over by Black prince in the 1980's
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1 hour ago, Horace42 said:
I suppose my only worry should be the guarantee of getting paid in full if sold 'as seen' ... I am certainly not in a position to fulfill or honour any after-sales warranty's....other than answer technical questions by email..
I had the buyers money in our bank account a full week before he came to collect the keys. We were extremely lucky.
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When we sold our boat brokers weren't interested. We put it on apollo duck and someone turned up and paid for it without a survey. We were lucky that a friend, who knew the boat well, dealt with the buyer. I didn't see the buyer until I passed the keys over. Don't worry about brokers and boatyards your buyer probably won't. Good luck.
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The Basingstoke canal in the autumn is interesting and noisy. Nut trees line the canal and you are bombarded by conkers/ chestnuts and hazel nuts 24 hours a day.
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We had more freedom in declaring a home mooring although we were seldom there. It was a disadvantage to declare a no mooring status,, which is why I wondered why Dmr thought a cc status was an advantage
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3 hours ago, dmr said:
Good question.
I believe we got an overstay warning email whilst moored on the offside at Hebden Bridge, just up from yourself. When I questioned this they said they did not realise we were on the offside. Its just possible we were spotted on the towpath side both just before and just after using the offside mooring.
The CC conditions do say stopping for only 14 days and do not, as far as I know, specify where? or does it say on the towpath?
If a CC boat is moored offside then I assume CRT would really need to confirm that its on an approved mooring with the mooring owners permission? In our K&A days we saw a few boats squatting a bit of offside land (and to be fair not just on the K&A).
We hope to be spending some time each year on an offside mooring but don't really want to give up our CC status.
And what about winter moorings???
What advantages are there in having a CC status?
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Try the English Whisky company
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On 24/08/2021 at 22:47, nbfiresprite said:
Who at CRT?, own or have shares in the sign making company?
Careful, I got threatened with slander when I said that to a BW director many years ago.
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Has anyone mentioned that much of your time will be spent housekeeping. Maintaining batteries for power, keeping your fire in and your water tank full. Doing your washing and getting it dry as well doing repairs on the boat. This all interferes with your social life.
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8 hours ago, LadyG said:
PS you know that 5 day promise responding to anything, I have waited 10 days and have yet to find out what is the litter policiy of the CRT. Pretty much sums it up.
They ignore it.
I think I might attend an agm, would this be allowed?
Join the National association of boat owners. You can then go to as many meetings as you like.
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Mr Finch did that to us as well. We were on our neighbours boat. Our Alsatian wouldn't have barked, just waited for him.
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My grandfather worked for Crittalls when he worked, but that's another story.
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My gas fridge was brilliant.
Pancakes yummy
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Marks and Spencer do very nice ready made and microwavable pancakes