Steilsteven

I know my place. 😉

If it's stated in the contract that boats in that marina must be licensed, then it has the strength of contract law. If the marina owner states in his mooring terms and conditions that a boat must carry a CRT license before it is allowed to enter the marina, then it has the strength of contract law. Should the boat owner decide he's not prepared to pay for a license whilst in the marina he would be told to leave because he was in breach of the terms and conditions. He would then of course have to get a license in order to leave the marina. Keith

I recently tried to get red HVO from my regular supplier ( New Era Fuels ) all seemed to be going well until they came back to me saying that my local depot has stopped supplying it and had even got rid of their tank! I was then offered it in drums or boxes but she came back later to say that they've stopped doing those too. I was then offered GTL as an alternative and eventually went for it, even though it is slightly worse from the co2 aspect than diesel it is very clean burning otherwise. For anyone interested https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/natural-gas/gas-to-liquids.html Keith

That's true of course, if your boat was in your back garden for instance. If on the other hand it was in a marina which had to abide by certain conditions to be allowed to connect to CRT's waterway, that's an entirely different kettle of fish.

Has anyone ever put that to the test?

No it's because it makes the owner untraceable

If they don't venture onto the canal they don't need a license, unless CRT insists they do. Reply actually intended for Higgs.

Get a copy of The Barge Buyer's Handbook, it will have all the answers to your questions and much more. It's available from DBA The Barge Association www.barges.org and there seem to be plenty on eBay from £3.66. Keith

Householders who own boats shouldn't need it either.

Done all that nonsense to death last time around, not going there again thank you.

20% is trivial in your book is it, funny how those who aren't faced with having to pay it are so fond of it.

I don't know but life is so much simpler with a remote control panel, all you'd need to do is turn the dial down. Why would you want to start messing around with a top quality piece of kit when the answer is so simple? 140 quid odd isn't a lot in the great scheme of things. I can never understand why anyone doesn't install one at the start. Keith

Yeah but he said then I said then he said then I said, oh never mind 😆

Ah but what is the carbon footprint created by it's manufacture and it's maintenance ?

Just to prevent you making an even bigger fool of yourself http://www.tb-training.co.uk/

An ageing population is the problem that the World faces now, overpopulation is overplayed.

If you check back to TB's earlier post he was offering alternatives to marina moorings, you youngsters always seem to suffer from attention deficit these days 😁

OK, my three ha'pence. The first thing you need to do is realistically think about what you actually like about your current situation and which of those things you are prepared to forego if necessary. Does your house have a garden for instance? Does hubby ( or indeed you ) have a "local" that you frequent? Do you like having your "own space" ( not that easy to achieve on a boat )? Do you have a lot of clothes that you just couldn't live without? Space is at a premium even on the largest boats. Moving from a house to a boat always means that items ,that you previously just couldn't live without, become reclassified as clutter which must be got rid of. In the book 'Narrow Dog to Carcassonne ' the author says that he and his wife have a rule which goes "if it doesn't get used in six months get rid of it" or words to that effect. This is a very good rule and although we live on a 65' x 12' Dutch barge my wife and I try to live by it as much as possible. Boats ALWAYS require maintenance and if you have to pay someone else to carry out such tasks the costs can be considerable so it pays to be practical. You say that you are both fit but then you say you worry about boat life being more physically demanding, so which is it? Your friend on the widebeam will be able to give you all the pointers in this respect and then you must judge for yourself. The other day I read about a lady in Paris who has been living alone on a barge for many,many years and has no plans of giving it up, the lady is 95! I'm coming up to 74 and have no plans of giving it up either. The only reason anyone should consider living afloat is a love of boats, any other reason is likely to fail. Keith

That was my first thought.

From Private Eye obviously and quite a shocker. Keith

Yes sorry, I didn't get that quite right. Keith

Hydrogen is very expensive and is already available in similar sized bottles but you can only buy it from BOC at just one depot in the whole country. If it leaks it releases a lot of co2 to the atmosphere and it's production ( currently ) uses a lot of fossil fuels. Also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/27/hydrogen-is-unsuitable-for-home-heating-review-concludes

Looks like Heartland lit the blue touch paper and then departed 😂

How inconsiderate of them, they should be sending it out to everyone who's ever had a licence before and everyone who might have one in future, 😉 How about only making short term licences available to boats that hold annual licences with other navigation authorities?

It's a consultation not a poll, you know just like the last one 😂