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Thanks Tony. I don't recall seeing an external oil cooler but this boat is 40 miles away so not easy to check. I've ordered a 1/8" BSP pressure switch which I'll attempt to fit on my next visit and I'll have a look where that copper pipe goes!

There is quite a well-known metal fabricator down a track roughly opposite the entrance to where Colecraft build their boats. Saw them making a very nice irregular-shaped stainless steel water tank a few years ago. Can't remember their name now though! Someone else here will I expect...

Could it be that CRT have dropped their crystal ball in the cut and it no longer works?

Listers don't count...

Congratulations!!!!!!!! Looks an excellent, solid boat to me in your photos. Despite it needing an afternoon or two with a paint brush.... Does it have an engine?

Thanks Tony. Not knowing what it was, I was reluctant to take that plug out to see. It seems crazy that a 30 year old boat has never had an oil pressure light so I doubted I was looking in the right place especially as ChatGPT insisted the sender was on the other side of the engine! Now I'm home, here's a better image. The plug is directly above the starter motor and behind the oil filter. I'll take it out to look for oil behind it next time I'm there.

The oil pressure warning light never illuminates on the 1.8 bmc I’ve been fixing. I suspect its because there is no pressure switch screwed into the block. Is this brass plug by the oil filter where it should be? thanks! Dammit picture loaded upside down!!

Nor me. To "evict" someone, I suspect there needs to have been a tenancy agreement at some point with rent being paid.

Utility room??!! How big is this boat?!

Have to say I've just been reading about Trump's actions re sending troops to Oregon, and I agree you're right, its only fluffy kittens at dawn here in comparison. Now back to boating. Water levels just below Claydon are fine for the minute.

Pound looks awfully low in that second one....

What???!!!! Have you actually listened to FARAGE or read the communist policies of the soft-and-fluffy-sounding Green Party here? Thought not... Welcome back!

I fail to see how any of the above applies in any way to the typical recalcitrant CMer, the case of George Ward being a good example.

I think you must have put the wrong link up. The answer given is as clear as mud, ignoring the circumstances that create all the friction.

Around here, one lock seems to suffice.

Surely it is cruising for one hour then mooring up for 14 days, over and over again which is self-evidently a nonsense and not a continuous cruise. Whether or not the licence-holder lives aboard.

I find myself wondering if failure to obtain permission to use the boat as a dwelling might have been a quicker route to getting rid of piss-takers like that nice Mr Ward...

Nope. You win! (Again!)

Almost correct... "30. No vessel on any canal shall without the permission of the Board be used as a club, shop, store, workshop, dwelling or houseboat."

We don't know....

Charitable trust, I thought. Not a full-fat charity.

In which case they could presumably also have 'no liveaboards' in the contract. (For consistency.)

The Canal Byelaws are not "CRTs rules", they are the law! (I think!)

So marina liveaboards are to be excepted from your proposed "The Canal Bylelaws to be enforced, in full" ? Any other exceptions?

Including the one that says no living aboard? Nearly all of CRT's enforcement problems appear to be caused by liveaboards.