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I find the best use of a rope end is using to beat naughty school boys. Did me no harm in the 60's

You may well be doing it the old way, but you quite rightly not those days are long gone. Unfortunatley so have the staff and money to repair the damage that might be caused. I accept that done carefully and skilfully not much wear takes place. But nowadays there are far more careless unskilful boaters who much use your slick efficient method as a model and totall f..k it up every time. I really believe the experienced caring boater should set an example of good practise and abide by the CRT guidelines in this matter. Currently these are to open both gates by hand before entering and not to use the boat to open gates.

You are quite right about the wear. If everybody did this there would soon be even more leaking gates which CRT could not repair fast enough. It is one of the major causes of leaking locks, boat impact. Similarly exiting/entering wide locks with only 1 gate open. A slight misjudgement and then more wear on the mitre.

My Victron "sings" when the cooling fan is in low speed. It is resonating a little. Hold the fan cover grill when it is singing and see if that changes.

I agree. My MC42 takes agesto warm up on no load so would take hrs to get any hot domestic. But using my 1kW immersion through the inverter with engine running not knly geats the water in about 45 mjns but akso gets a good load ti warm engine up quicker which then contributes to domestic water heating. I have a twin alternatir set up, but even so the SOC on smartgahge drops from 100 to about 85%. But whether that is just a smartgauge feature or a real drop I am not sure.

It came about with the move from Waterscape to CRT web site. I did offer to help work on this but the offer was declined. The comment was they would consider restoring then if enough people complained / asked. So we all need to comment. I think the person to send emails to is Odette Myall at odette.myall@canalrivertrust.org.uk

They used to in some areas. Certainly the showers at Gunthorpe Lock on River Trent still have the cash/card boxes fitted. However, in order to standardise across the Network these are no longer in use. It probably cost more to collect than it raised in cash.

Or hair blocking the shower pump

The problem with that is that if something does go wrong the risk assessment was done by a remote manager, who will then get blamed. Having the worker do it shifts the responsibility somewhat

That, Jan, is a great story. It is also a picture of the last flying Vulcan XH558. You may not get another chance to see her flying for much longer. The cost of operating her is huge and there are not many flying hours left before a major overhaul needed iirc. I hope you appreciated the sound!

No. I thought he did motorcycles.

I think it is called hull design speed or similarA little power gets you to this speed but to go faster requires a disproportionate amount of power. . Our is similar.

New gate ram fitted to Town Lock now fully operational. And don't forget the Malt Shovel. I think Camra members get a discount Quite right. It helps lubricate the gates the mechanisms of which I grease and lub to prevent failures!Did I mention the Malt Shovel?

I suppose it depends on how much you want to moor in this marina and how much they want your money. Personalky I would delete the clause on any copies you sign, initial the deletion and pay them their fee. If they accept the fees and contract then they must hace accepted the alteration. But maybe others will differ in their view

Cannot award greenies on my ipod so LIKE

When they moved from Wsterscape to the new CRT web site they couldnt be bothered to move them over. That would have neant keeping them updated and useful to boaters. Cant have that now can we?Seriously, if enough people email Damien.kemp@canalrivertrust.org.uk and complain, they will reassess, I am told. . I miss them too

And of course BWML's resi charges include Council Tax, well they do at Newark

Un sure of the connection, but no.

I hate that BW/CRT buzz phrase "Going forward" makes me vomit

Very very rough calc gives you 18tonnes displacement at least

In one way these FOI requests coukdbe useful to CRT. At least they then know the answers. I once asked for a list and location if all BW/CRT owned and managed pumpouts. They did not know