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Ah yes, the NAA. That needs reviewing too. 9% is ridiculously cheap and needs putting up. It costs CRT an absolute FORTUNE to provide the canal, without which the marinas would have no boats and no business.

Maybe refer the author of the dictionary to my post then, lol!

I suspect that entering a narrow lock at a fair lick then engaging astern and revving the engine with enthusiasm, can lead to the rudder snapping across to full deflection and the handle of an over-long tiller catching the lock wall while the boat is still travelling forwards. Especially if the steerer is not expecting it and does not have a really good grip on the tiller.

I hold that if you're writing in English, the plural is "forums". If you're spouting forth in Latin, the plural is "fora". Hope that helps... 😃

I may have been one. I usually intend to use diesel mostly for heating when I buy it.

I have quite a few propellers lying around in my hovel, within a few feet of me. I'll have a measure. First prop, a Crowther prop made for my Kelvin K1 is 71.0mm outside diameter at the fat end of the boss. Second prop is 66mm outside diameter. This is off a lifeboat that had a Lister HRW2 in it. It is actually bigger in diameter at the centre than at either end. Peaking at about 70mm I'd guess but my vernier won't reach. Third prop is of uncertain origin and the boss is really bulbous in shape. The machined flat area at the end for the nut and washer to bear on is 58.8mm diameter but the centre of the boss is closer to 85mm.

Being a river with a PRN, maybe there is no obligation to have insurance to get a rivers only registration. Just a guess, I don't know.

All valves in my experience have their problems with advancing age.

Did not quite a few get installed in lighthouses? Or is that an urban myth? It strikes me that owners (or more particularly, sellers) are free to make up whatever tosh they like about the origins of their engine, in cases where there is no supporting documentation!

I think if you drill down into the legislation it actually requires one to declare "Intended Use", i.e. the use in the future of what you're buying now. Not what the current batch already in the tank is being used for. So if you intend your next purchase of fuel to be 100% domestic, because the tank is currently half full of say 60/40, who is in any position to prove you wrong about your intentions at the point of purchase? You might however, change your mind later...

There are two fatties which have been hogging the 48hr moorings here for months.

I don't think that will get you far with the fixed 60/40 retailers. Their refusal to budge on this originates from the right of any business to sell to whomever they like or not, under whatever terms of business they choose to impose. There is no legal obligation on the marina to "treat" with you to sell fuel on your terms as opposed to theirs. If you choose to make a PITA of yourself over it, you might find yourself with no mooring at all when it comes to renewal time.

Yep, agree with all of that. The OP is going to have to go to considerable trouble to avoid paying the 60/40 split whichever alternative approach to getting fuel s/he decides use. I'd suggest just sucking it up and paying the split.

I can imagine that snapping off at the point it joins the brass tiller bar, if being pushed hard over in a manoeuvre with a fair it of power on. With the resultant risk of the steerer taking a look.

Another option might be to order some red diesel/gas oil from one of the domestic fuel suppliers who will deliver it in a tanker. E.g. https://www.boilerjuice.com/uk Minimum delivery size happens to be 500 litres, conveniently. Currently about £1 a litre plus 5% VAT for my area. Yours might be different.

That is SUCH a ridiculous word! Even though the meaning is appropriate, lol. Just as the term "Solicitrix" is ridiculous for a.... go on have a guess... (or look it up)!

So as a newbie then, you hardly know anything yet.

Nope. But the initial drafts of the 1995 Act attempted to make it the case. Furious lobbying got the concession for CCing added at the last minute, IIRC. But you know this already. I type it out for other readers not necessarily aware. Few people back then foresaw that CMing would become a thing as a result.

Ah yes, public funding. AKA print the money. And economists know exactly where THAT leads!

Its 'chicken and egg' territory though isn't it. There are "too many people" because CRT/BW have kept licence fees artificially low and relied on govt handouts which are now stopping. In the meantime through patchy to non-existent enforcement they have allowed the canals to be over-run with cheap-homers whose only interest is low running costs. Some of them with £1/4m widebeams but many with £20k sinkers that get no maintenance from one decade to the next. Had licence costs for the last 40 years genuinely reflected the cost of running the system, we probably would not be where we are now.

Is this not the cause of the change a few years ago, where current licences ceased to be transferrable to a new owner when a boat is sold? Boaters claiming not to be subject to the rules because they have not signed anything agreeing to them? CRT now cancel a currnet licence and issue a refund on transfer of ownership, in order to force the new owner to agree to the T&Cs from the get-go, when purchasing their own new licence AIUI. No need for booklets or whatever now.

Like you, I loathe marinas. They are like living in a car park. Initially I was living aboard and compliantly CCing, then I took a pretty countryside CRT on-line mooring. But holding down a busy self-employment (which pays for my boats!) at the same time led to it turning into a chore as I only ever took the boat to the water and elsan point every couple of weeks. Getting away from managing the boat became the pleasure! But each of the boats is still a home-from-home. Galley cupboards stocked with food, clothes etc and various personal possessions on board too, fuel in the tanks, lithiums part-charged, I just go to the boat when it suits me and its ready to go.