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They aren't too bad on price, basically it will cost us pretty much the same as it cost at Warble when you factor in the electric. Having a shore line is high on our list of requirements, and to be honest I really don't think we are NCCC material!

No. Gazundering is where the BUYER welches on the deal. In this case, it was the SELLER who broke his word.

Perhaps it would be worthwhile waiting to see what conclusions I try to draw before announcing that they are wrong. The first conclusion that I will draw is that some people, when they suspect that a poll won't support their POV, make it their business to try and denigrate the results at the earliest opportunity.

Yes there is, it's called the ignore button. If it doesn't matter, why are you expending so much energy on criticising me setting a poll up?

You keep claiming that the poll is loaded, but it really isn't. The responses provided are simply the intersection of two distinct questions about each cruising pattern; A) Is the cruising pattern outlined sufficient to satisfy BW's view of what the Act requires? Is the cruising pattern outlined sufficient to satisfy the man on the Clapham Omnibus? As such, polarisation of results is actually a positive thing, because voting for options 2&3 suggests that the BW stance is at odds with the view of the respondent.

Really? Of the last 10, 20, 30 threads I've started how many were about CCers?

No, Gazundered is where the buyer, several weeks down the line often just before money is due to change hands, suddenly says they want to pay less, and will pull out if the price isn't dropped.

Well, I'm taken aback! Why would somebody asking some questions get under your skin so much (and why has it got under the skin of certain other posters such that they have vented rather than answer the questions). However, let me address your points. 1) Is anything necessary? However, I believe that polls like this sometimes give a clearer view of what the balance of opinion is that discussions where some voices (mine included) dominate. 2) Yes, there is uncertainty and debate about what the definition means, so let us see what the consensus is. 3) There are stretches of canal where I might like to moor sometimes, but these stretches are always occupied by boats that seem to be there for weeks on end, and keep returning with monotonous regularity. 4) It isn't specious. There are places that one can commute to, and still CC. Manchester is one such place. I'm not trying to batter an opinion down your throat. You don't have to read the thread, and in any case, I'm asking for opinions, not giving them out.

Perhaps you would care to answer on the basis that the term is being used as shorthand for "somebody who has obtained a licence on the basis that the will engage in navigation throughout the duration of the licence"

Big spark naturally. It's a proper piece of kit. Back before H&S was invented, and safety depended upon following instructions properly, I listened well when told to blow the gasses of before using the thing, and I've used it many times since I was eleven years old without an explosion.

There has been much heated discussion about what constitutes a continuous cruiser, and whether certain pattern of use are legitimate. So, let us cut to the question, and see whether people thing some hypothetical cruising patterns are OK. The examples are local to me, because they were easier to dream up, but people from elsewhere can easily look them up! In every case, the moorings given will allow the boater to be at Manchester Picadilly using a train that takes less than an hour, and is within 15 minutes walk of the train station. In each case, the boater moors for two weeks at each location before moving on, and after two weeks at the last location returns to the first. The pattern repeats for ever

Well, my questions in another thread were sort of prompted by the thought that the area where we are now mooring could feasibly be used by people with 4 different moorings in rotation all handy for a train station with easy access to Manchester.

I assume that you mean a drop tester, which is basically a volt meter measuring the voltage under heavy discharge. Banned or not, my dad has one in his tool box!

Billhooks!

Fork 'andles

It is complicated because that isn't what they said. Move the boat every 14 days is merely YOUR edited highlights of what is required.

No it isn't, and for the record, I agree with your view of generators. However, it is entirely open to others to disagree with that view and to argue that point, or to criticise the manner in which you express yourself. I'm afraid that if you choose to write a piece for publication, you must accept the brickbats as well as the bouquets

Its a concrete shelf that is under water.