Water Rat.
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The exact same thing happened to my boat last week at Marston Doles! My kids were on the boat at the time and had to leave the boat above the top lock, unfortunately on a water point, I hasten to add there was still room for other boats to get water but nowhere else they could have gone with my boat. I got a very nasty note left on the boat in the time it took us to get back to repair it. Beware of irate boaters at Marston Doles! Had I left it there I would had put a note up explaining but it does warn one of jumping to conclusions. I have since moved it.
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It was a fantastic week end and was busy busy busy. As Scrumpy Lurcher said, shame we did not get to enjoy most of it, though I do always start late on the Sunday in order to have a walk around.
Wonderful to meet forum members, Tree, Pykebird and Cheshire Rose to name a few. Next year we should make a date and have a banter in the evening.
I am booked in again, 5th year running and looking forward to it! See you there.
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Takes me about the same as a sternline.....
(Coat!....)
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hmm... bear in mind moi can get lost in the Co-op carpark... I have sat nav directions of : NN7 3DS.. is this correct or will moi end up getting lost down county lanes ( again !!
i looked up the festival details but only found sat nav of NN7 as ime NN8 shhouldnt be too far.Just put in Blisworth Northants city centre. There will be signs around the village. Come and say hi. I am near the bridge opposite the old mill.
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I want them for my fenders but would need six! So a bit pricey.
There is a you tube video so my son is going to have a bash at making them.
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Ah. I knew someone would ask that. I will ask himself if he can remember where it was. But it was not anywhere near the Globe far further north.
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This wonderful festival is taking place again this week end. It is great fun,do come along with or without your boats.
I will be face painting again so come by and say hello.
WR
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Do any of you use these? They look really handy and have the advantage of not taking the paintwork off. Just a bit expensive.
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This wonderful festival is taking place again this week end. Do come along it is a great day out with or without a boat.
I will be face painting again so come and say hello
WR
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Going through Milton Keynes yesterday we happened across a car in the cut. The police were there. Anyone know what happened?
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I had a friend, sadly she's at the great gig in the sky now, but she would have a go at anything. She believed you could do anything you wanted on a shoestring. You just cut your cloth accordingly.
How I wish I had balls as big as she did. She was one of the most fabulous women I will ever know in my lifetime, and the only thing that ever beat her was cancer. And she didn't give up to that without a fight.
I'd go for it. Have a plan B, but do it. Life is far too short to be wondering, says me who is busy frittering mine away behind a desk.
One day though, I'll grow a pair, I know I will. I've got as far as buying the boat, now I just need to get rid of the bricks and mortar and bale out of this rat race once and for all.
Good luck with whatever you choose to do.
I would keep the bricks and mortar, if it is yours to keep, let it out as the plan B and get some income from it.
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Thanks so much for the update. It is good to know the outcome of some of the questions on the forum. Also, I spent the day yesterday looking at boats with some friends who are also looking to move onboard. This will be very helpful. Do please let us know how it goes and what you learn during the move.
WR
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.....did you deck him this before or after you threw the rock.
Now go and sit on the norty step!
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Thanks Mike. This is exactly how I felt and rather what I wanted to say but was trying to be tactful. As I said it was almost admitted that they were on 'their patch'. The fact that one boat had been there for a year and another admitted to three weeks - two weeks ago and they are still there made me wonder why I even made the effort to move on. I would quite like to stay there as well. It would save a fortune on mooring fees.......................(nb. this last sentence is a joke for those without humour)
Well given what is going on on the Southern Grand Union controlled by South East waterways in terms of increased enforcement right now, I would judge that such "colonisation" is getting a great deal harder!
Water Rat doesn't (I think!) say where this is, but if people are getting away with this degree of overstaying without severe pressure from CRT, I can only assume it is on London Waterways, rather than on parts controlled by South East Waterways?Don't like to say exactly where but well out of London and a little South of Watford.
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literation being, of course, worse than injury? ;-)
It depends for whom.
Mind you, the last time I went through there some of the local hangers around shared their chips with us.
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OMG. I do not want him hanged. I don't mind - please move my boat anyone, any where, any time you like.......................
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I think I know your boat. We were cruising and with a widebeam, struggled to find a spot, and noticing your boat was ownerless for a few days, we just tied up alongside. Hope you dont mind....we only used your cratch area a few times to get to the bank. ;-)
Ahhh! That explains those footprints!!
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The possibility of their falling off and the ensuing literation that could follow makes me shudder! I would not be very happy about this either. Lucky they are narrow locks!!
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Very rarely does the positioning of boats when you arrive tell the obvious.
Many a times we have come back to our boat and it looks like we have plonked it in the middle of a huge gap. In reality the two boats either side of us have left but passers by could easily assume we have been completely inconsiderate and taken up a large mooring spot.
You are not there so you can't see this. Envisage: lock bollards, one very large narrow boat then me with about six or eight boats behind me and a mile of free space. Now there is: lock bollards, two narrow boats brested up, said very long narrow boat and now me. I was moved to move the big one to allow the other two in front of him. After the few moored boats is a good mile of free and available mooring. Essentially I do not mind. I have never experienced it before and would never touch someone else's boat.
So, does this mean essentially there is a free for all out on the tow path? If a boat is in your way - well - just move it for your own convenience? I do not think of behave like this. Especially, as I stress again there is loads of space further along. Perhaps the two boats need this spot for a very good reason, then should the longer boat not have moved down the towpath to let them in? Since I know he moved it, and if he had asked or mentioned the possibility of their need the space I would have had no compunction in saying please feel free. He has now been five weeks on a fourteen day mooring by his own admittance.
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On that basis, I too would be unhappy. Shuffling about to fit boats in is one thing. It is quite another thing to move you because you are occupying a preferred spot.
George ex nb Alton retired
This, I feel, is my point exactly.
How do you know that it wasnt shuffled around to make better use of the moorings?
You were not there.......
The positioning of the boats makes the obvious.
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So it's OK for you to accept other boaters help by keeping an eye on your boat while at the same time objecting to helping others by allowing your boat to be moved ?
Can't have it both ways.
My point was there was no need to move it. There is at least a mile of free space a little further along. Of course I don't mind being helpful.
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I did not really matter to me, as I said she was well tied up. It is just that I would not dream of touching someone else's boat. I rather got the feeling it was a 'local place for local people'. There was no need to move her if the other boats who arrived had gone further along where there was about a mile of free space.
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My boat has been off it's home mooring since April and I have been religiously moving her on in compliance with 'the rules'. I found a nice safe place, nice boats near by, cc'ers all around, nice folk next door introduced themselves and promised to look after her. I had a long discussion with a man re the mooring regs in the area who said there was a relaxed attitude to' a little overstaying', he had been on his spot for three weeks and was staying for a couple more and that was 'ok'. I returned to Jade at the week end to move her - and she had been moved. Not far, just a boat space to allow his boat to move up and let a couple more boats in front of him, one of which had been just below the lock for a year.
My point is not that my boat was in any way harmed and was well tied up and safe. But, should the 'local cc'ers feel this is ok? That is to move boats for their convenience? TBH I was not very pleased. I can see this is a great place to live, 5 minutes from a tube station in the countryside, a parade of shops, pizza shop and off licence and convenient parking. But, if I leave my boat on a spot should I not expect it to be on the same spot when I return? I have a smaller boat and when I left her she was snugly in a place between two boats that a bigger boat would not have squeezed into.
Is this normal practice? I stress no harm was done to Jade but I am just saying I was a bit surprised, there was loads of space further along am I unreasonable to expect them to move there rather than move me?
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It reminds a little of a friend's boat - nice and cheery. A good size, very convenient for not needing winding holes.
i looked up the festival details but only found sat nav of NN7 as ime NN8 shhouldnt be too far.
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Well as for the galloping diesel bugs......................................