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You must be on the move again then because there are upwards of 20 locks from the Rose of Lancaster to Littleborough. I've just noticed that on Google Earth the bit where you were moored is completely dewatered. It must have been photographed at the time when the Irk aquaduct failed. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5525431,-2.1673271,482m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-GB

He's not got to the gritty bit yet. It's OK where he is at the moment up to the M62 and then things go down hill until you get through Rochdale town.

Following up on Nic's point, until the current marina's are full, there's little justification for more. Every new marina is a new source of income for C&RT so if I was in their shoes I would be looking to help all marina owners fill their berths. I don't object to what they are doing but do object to how they are doing.it. I don't particularly want to see a forest of signs telling me what I can and cannot do and how much it's going to cost. It doesn't look attractive. Edited for double post

Cheer up. It could be worse. No opportunity to self declare at Henley. Diesel is £1.50 and petrol an eye watering £1.70 today. Like Mike says, you don't have to buy it.

Thanks for the responses. It's comforting to know that I am not alone.

As above. I'm still mostly getting fatal memory errors or page could not be found once I select a thread to read. At least that's what seems to happen using IE. I'm having better success with Google Chrome but it's still slower than normal.

Funnily enough I got the impression I was dealing with a call centre too. The business has moved from Shrewsbury to Cheltenham. The policy cost has increased more than yours and so has the excess. The accuracy of their information leaves a lot to be desired. On one page the home base is "not known". A couple of pages later the correct marina is mentioned. They do pay out though when you need them to.

It would seem to me to be risky to have a railing manufactured before you have got any kind of consent. It could turn out to be a waste of money.

That's a tiny silencer. I suspect mine is the same under all its bandages.

Bad news. There's no Elsan before Littleborough according to C&RT boating guides. 3 cassettes won't be enough for any period of time. That's quite a community you've got going now at the bottom of the Rochdale. Spotted from the tram. Are all four of you banned from the Bridgewater?

72p at Stoke Boatbuilders last week but you won't be going that far North.

It can't be long now before you've been sat at Rochdale bottom lock for 14 days.

I think I'm right in saying that Brian on Harnser uses the furl boat at the farm. I'm sure he'll be along once his blacking is taken care of.

I jogged along the Bridgewater from Timperley Bridge to Dane Road and back this evening. I may be wrong but it does like there are at least one or two residents at Sale cruising club. I think there used to be at Stretford watchouse club on the offside too although I haven't been passed there recently. In both cases I have no idea whether they are official residential moorings.

I would have thought that Claymore Navigations hire fleet breaks Peel Holdings rules on occasion as a result of the hirers attempts to do the Cheshire Ring.

They're the kind Timothy West has!

Presumably that 27% increase represents an increase due to catching people in boats without licences and forcing them to pay their dues. Even if the figures have held static over the last five years there have still been a fair few boats built. An equivalent number must have been put out of C&RT's reach one way or another.

There is information on this on the Thetford website. http://www.thetford-europe.com/product/aqua-rinse-plus/ Go to the tips tab

I don't think the figures have dropped by 3000. Where have those boats gone? Willington Marina is the biggest on the system and holds 630 boats. It's huge. Five times as many boats would take up an enormous space. We would have noticed. Then, as pointed out by others there are still plenty of new boats being created which would require a similar number of boats to be withdrawn. I haven't noticed a breakers yard anywhere. I think that the numbers stated have been inaccurate and still are.

They've probably just found out that Windows 2000 is no longer supported by Microsoft

That's a good idea. Outside peak hire times there's no need force people to move on after 48 hours unless the motive is income generation.

Quite. I've got one for each day of the week. None of them are screwdrivers

I have a wooden pigeon box and that created condensation to some extent when we were sleeping under it in the winter. It wasn't noticeably dripping but needed a wipe down internally in the morning.

Could it be that the stuff Mike works with isn't overstressed and is well within the number of duty cycles it was manufactured to withstand.

And there's the risk. Most of the syndicate will be of the same mindset most of the time but there's always potential for Mr. odd man out. We had a guy who used to let his dogs sleep on the bed with him. Popular he wasn't. Discussing curtains isn't exclusive to shared ownership. I wasn't interested in entering that kind of conversation either. "Just get on with it Dear" So she did and when I saw what she'd bought I was horrified. They're going back tomorrow.