Jen-in-Wellies

This topic is locked till the moderators come to a decision as to it's future. Going to get my beauty sleep now.

This is from an email to me and I am currently CCing, so presumably they went to all CCers. How things apply to those with a home mooring, I don't know. If you've heard nothing, as someone with a mooring, then I presume nothing has changed.

It has spent a lot of time on brokerage over the years, between sales. No owner seems to use it for long, before putting it up for sale again. The boat is so distinctive, you'd spend all your time being engaged by random boaters and gongoozlers about it. Even changing the name wouldn't help, with it's indelible features.

See this

Becoming an accountant still means using a lot of red ink. Maybe that's just my accountant. 😀

Sunk boat does not equal abandoned boat. It depends what CaRT classes as abandoned. Given a number of 200, my guess would be they class abandoned, where they do not know the current owner, or all attempts to contact, or trace the last known owner have failed. A sunk boat could have a known owner. CaRT could be trying to get the money to recover it from the insurance company, or owner, before spending their own. If it is a wooden hulled boat, then sinking it can sometimes be the best option to slow further deterioration. So a sunk wooden boat could have an owner that has some concern for it's future. See the various deliberately sunk wooden boats at the Ellesmere Port museum, where the numbers exceed the resources available for their restoration, ot even conservation.

The 14 day movement requirement for CCers has been suspended for the rest of August.

The minimum size batt Fogstar do is 100Ahr so I suspect 300W should have read 300Ahr, which is one of their middling size batteries. Capable of discharge rates enough to feed a 3kVA inverter.

And the sinking tyre logo was inspired by the stain left by the graphic designer's coffee mug.

See, this is why CaRT should do some preventative maintenance on their LOCKS CLOSED signs, or in future droughts, they won't be able to close the locks and will run out of water completely.

Unless it rains so hard and for so long in the next six weeks that you are loading animals in to your boat two by two, then no.

It could have been worse!

What would Italians know!

It was sounding so reasonable, until you got to that last one. 😀

The most expensive bit first, then by order of part cost, for a truly modern approach.

No need for politicians. The solution is in our own hands and feet. A coordinated canal users rain dance. 💃☔

The LED revolution will have put many older lamp designs out of production. Even if whatever this is turns out to be has survived, there is probably something cheaper, brighter and lower power draw available now that will fit reasonably easily.

Disproved. You get elephants on the road in India, but the British installed red pillar boxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_box#/media/File:British-era_letter_box_in_Shimla,_India.jpg https://newsable.asianetnews.com/india/watch-wild-elephant-charges-at-cars-and-truck-in-viral-video-raises-wildlife-safety-concerns-articleshow-wf11dx0

Ladybower isn't a canal feeder, except at very far removed, where the River Derwent eventually meets the Trent at Shardlow and might then contribute something to flooding the Sawley cut.

The only reason there isn't a law against it is that no legislator ever thought someone would be depraved enough to do it.

And climate change. The summer has been hot and dry. Happens much more often than in the working boat prime. They had droughts thst stopped boats working, but not so regularly. Also much traffic was coal, which is partly seasonal for heating, as well as for year round industrial use, so fewer boat movements in summer and more in winter. The opposite of modern usage. It isn't just lock usage. Water is still evaporating from the surface of canals, rivers and reservoirs in hot weather, even if the locks are chained and ashed up.

Rectangular pizzas in rectangular boxes are a thing, but that is just so wrong.