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A source has confirmed this as correct.
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In my youth, early 70's, I was in the merchant navy. Water was stored in double bottom tanks. We used it for washing, cooking and teeth. Since the bar was open 24/7 we didnt drink a lot of water except when used in pink gins!
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Must be from the Shirley or Upper Addiscombe vineyard?I don't think the IR would be interested in small scale bartering of the sort described. No doubt there's a bit of a grey area, but surely tax only comes into it when significant money is changing hands and/or it's between businesses?
Each year I use my neighbour's grapes to make some wine and give her a bottle or two of it, the rest being given away to my friends and relatives, mostly drunk by my son and his friends. If I sold it I'd not only be liable for tax, I'd need an alcohol licence!
The odd thing is, I gave up drinking long ago and just make the wine for fun. I don't taste it, I just rely on comments to find out if I got it right. Apparently after two years of just about drinkable plonk, my 2013 vin de Croydon was pretty damn good.
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Rather than bugger about with changing 14 days to 2 days etc, they just need more moorings!
I wonder if they have thought of that?
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I agree. Quicker, and cheap cuts of meat are more tender. But our Argos cheap little one uses very little.How about going the other way & cooking stuff quicker with a pressure cooker?
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My suggsstion is
Dont bother.
Our Rutland on a 12' pole was a total waste of money and space. But might made a good mud weight!
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I had a similar experience off Dairen in China un 1971. The Captain thought it was time for a lifeboat drill, and as we were anchored off waiting for a berth we launched two rowed lifeboats and the motor one. I was engineer on the motor one. We really were minding our own business when thus chinese navy gunboat pulls along side of us abd lots of guns are pointed at hs with instructions to return to the ship. Seems Dairen was akso a naval base and they got a bit hot under the collar.We did have twin Volvo straight 6's (200hp each)
A "pussy" to handle, catches the wind but had a V hull, draws around 1 metre, so no problem steering into, across, or down wind
Has the power to get out of trouble, go against any flow or tide.
Can run on one engine at tickover - 3mph
If it wasn't for frightening SWMBO crossing the Irish Sea (waves over the fly-bridge) we would still have it.
We now have adjusted to 'muddy ditches' and 'sewer tubes' and enjoy them but there is no comparison to Tupperware doing 25 knts down Gare Lock (Faslane) and being chased by Commados in rubber boats pointing sub-machine guns at you, when they think you are terrorists going to attack the submarines.
We also had lifeboat races in King Gearge 5th Docks jn London (now London City Airport iirc) That was more fun
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At work at my lock on the Trent. Had bedb precipitating quite hard but now a bit sunny. Not many boats through so far - 2 up and 2 down.
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He has not taken up my offer. Wonder why?Well done Jelly-Lunga. A fair offer and worth a green-boogie
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Assuming you receive post then do what we did. Have the licence at your postal address. Then you are permitted to use a TV in a boat or caravan. Not complicated simple.To be fair, it's not exactly easy to pay a TV licence if you don't have an address. If you could simply post them a cheque once a year and they issued a licence to "Narrowboat Whatever", then I suspect that more would pay. But having to actively pursue them to pay them money at they're entitled to, doesn't exactly make the prospect of paying an exciting one. If I wanted a TV, I have much better things to do with my time than sending them innumerable emails and spending a lot of time on the phone trying to pay.
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When another narrow boat ended up across Cromwell Weir last year with a lady in a wheelchair on board, it took 2 helicopter, ( air sea rescue and air ambulance) Notts Fire and Rescue Boat section, and a couple of land Ambulances to rescue the lady, and two CRT river tugs to get the boat off the weir.I have permission from the 'affected person' to tell the story, on the condition of anonnimity - those that were there know who it is, those that were not there dont need to know.
Background :
We decided to 'make a weekend of it' - travelling to Cromell Lock (River Trent) Friday afternoon, planning to return Sunday evening (48 hour mooring) so a small 'flotilla' travelled for the 'BBQ-Banter'
The BBQ basically ran almost non-stop until Sunday lunch, much 'pop' was consumed and a wonderful time had by all.
On leaving the pontoon, one of the NB's needed to reverse out of the 'hammerhead' and into the 2mph flow, The flow and the wind took hold and the NB was broadside to the river and despite some 'excess throttle' seemed reluctant to turn, eventually turning (as we found out later) just as the water pump (fresh water cooled engine) decide to unfasten itself from the side of the engine - almost instant 'boiling engine'. Switch engine off to avoid siezing.
Seeing a drifting NB - two other NB's circling to try to offer assistance - now 500 yards from the weir
Affected NB throws out (would be considered large by many) 20kg anchor and chain - now less than 300 yds from Cromwell weir 'floats' - anchor takes another 100 yards + before it bites (apparently 'brown trousers' time for those on board).
Boat now safely tethered, and investigation into possibility of repair considered. - no chance.
Circling boats now attempt to get a line aboard, but broken-down boat swinging about 120o in the wind / current. Several attempts and finally get a 'long line' aboard and a tow commenced with the 'spare' boat keeping station 100yds astern to collect broken boat if rope snaps, T-stud pulls off or anything else goes wrong
Towing boat's first time towing and lets out the rope to maximum length to avoid towed boat running into the back of him, as he "has no brakes"
Towed boat all 'over the river'
Eventually I pulled along side and we got the two boats strapped together side-by-side and the 'towing boat' cast off the tow rope.
Uneventful cruise into the marina - totally manoeverable when side-by-side, we even managed to get into the 2-boat width moorings without touching the sides.
Lessons learned :
A (suitable sized) anchor is a necessity on the River (but like insurance you hope you never need it)
Life jackets are certainly advisable.
VHF radio would have enabled an emergency call had he been alone, as it was he could have called us to explain the situation earlier.
Never be complacent on big rivers.
There is no way we would have been able to pull him off the 'floats' had he been broadside on in that flow.
Cromwell Wier from the bottom - the site of the drowning of 10 Para's in 1975
Photo - copyright "Captain Ahab"
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in our case er moved from a 4 bed house with shed and garage to a Narrow boat with plans to cc.Over the years we have lived in a flat, a maisonette, 3 bed semi, a 4 bed bungalow and a 2 bed cottage, garages and sheds included we found that a fact of life is that wherever you live, you manage to fill all the available space.
Phil
Health issues decreed we needed a permanent mooring to be near our hospital. This came with a storage bunker. A move to another marina gave imus a slightly smaller bunker. Then BWML made us pay for a full resi mooring which came with a giant bunker.
The rule is whatever size you accommodation, you will always fill it to 125%
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Tell me your boat name and the dates you passed through each lock abd I can check records. Pm if you likeThe only grey area is my percieved cruising pattern. The crt say I have only moved a distance of 10km over several months when in fact I have travelled to the head of navigation (chesterfield canal) and back to the Trent, a total of around 70 miles. This included 8 locations on the way out and 7 on the way back. Apart from one 24hr visitor mooring (the Boat Inn at Hayton) none of my stops were on visitor moorings and none were longer than 14 days (I have not been accused of over staying)
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Marinas offer this serviceI have a mooring. Occasionally I want go for a long cruise. For most of this time I can use the short VMs. But, not being a liveaboard, I sometimes need to leave the boat for a while. It is quite hard to find 14 day moorings for this that don't involve pins and long walks, and anyway, 14 days is sometimes not long enough. I need proper 14 day moorings ie not pins to be available and the ability to stay somewhat longer several times per year.
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Are you saying they do offer a proper boat registration service confirming ownership?
My beef is finding out if the person who is selling a bo
That needs to work both ways then surely offering us protection against dishonest people not just to equipt themselves.
If I buy a car I can check its ownership with the DVLA but with CRT there is no such provision.
No you cannot. If you read the DVLA vehicle registration document it clearly states it is not proof of ownership, only of registered keeper. You can have a car on hire purchase. You might be the registered keeper but the finance company is owner until the final Optio to purchase fee is paid.
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Yes, but at least I would have a job all year and not just April to October!I'm guessing that having all locks manned would add somewhat to CaRT's costs and cause the licence fee to rise a LOT.
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My system has two filters. The first one js an agglomerator which seperates the water and shit. The engine one is a finer filter. That is the one I change. That is the Perkins part. The other one could be any make and Diperk will not know the type.Thanks J
Been in touch
Another question is, does the fuel filter actually fitted to the engine need changing at the same time as the fuel filter coming from the diesel tank. I've never bothered to change the one on the engine, it's also painted in with the engine block colour.
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I know the noise you mean. Ours does it as well, especially when a heavy load like kettle is added. If they all do it then must be normal.
If you do and get an abswer please post. As I said, our Victron 12/3000/120 does it tooNo, don't think this is it. It's def an electrical sound. Nothing else seems amiss - we use the 2.5kW electric kettle, when on shore supply, it all works fine.
It just goes boing! Maybe I'll email Victron.
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True. Wishful thinking on my part I expect.No they would use the extra income for something else
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No. If all boats paid for a license then maybe us lock keepers might get paid a reasonable wage increase for onceHow many members agree that 4% is acceptable . . . it actually represents one unlicenced boat for approximately every one and a half miles of waterway under C&RT control . . . is that good?
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However, certajnky on the River Trent manned locks our policy is no license no passage. And whilst there was a plan to put pocket links like PDAs in all manned locks. But not enough money!CRT have indicated at the highest level in meetings that provided they can identify a boat from its index number they have no interest in seeing paper licences displayed, and no longer make any use of them when boat checking.
They would very much like to discontinue paper licences, and apparently it is only people like you obsessed with the fact that people are not displaying up to date ones that makes them shy away from this obvious cost saving.
(Just saying, like!).
So if no license is displayed and enquires dint get good answers then. .......
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By inward investment do you mean take overs and mergers with foreign multinationals?A recipe for economic disaster. Where will the inward investment come from? To whom will we sell our products and services?
Like Cadburys by Kraft? We can well do without that sort of inward investment.
I voted to join a common market not a european state. We either beed to roll back to that concept or withdraw entirely.
The current megalith serves no one except itself and big business especially with the proposed TTIP AGREEMENT
A very accurately hit nail headI agree with Jelunga in that I see no need for the EU. the Common Market is a good thing, trade and all that.
The EU is a construct of politicians who want more power. What possible use other than that is it. We argue over all sorts of things and frequently end up with the camel (a horse designed by committee).
I'm not sure about actually getting out, but we should fight like hell to keep a lot more of own laws and rules which they have no business sticking their noses into.
Bob
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An even better way is to leave the EU and go back to the Common Market!IMO a much fairer way is for the UK to ignore those bits of EU legislation that don't suit, just like the others do, but that just isn't cricket is it?
George ex nb Alton retired
And show them the English Archers still have two fingers!
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The other source is Diperk, the factory spares supplier. We buy our from them mail order. Good service not too expensive and the correct obe. Give them a try.
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