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13 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
I don't think CaRT have a different attitude to continuous cruisers who understand and in the main play be their contract with CaRT. CaRT's attitude to those who take the contract and then do their best not to play be the rules may well be getting harsher.
You should not confuse continuous cruisers with continuous moorers
I don't.
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8 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I quite liked the way the CRT geyser pointed out they are not a public body and therefore do not actually have to behave reasonably.
I would suggest anyone thinking of pushing the edges of the law on canals have a little sit down and work out that it is a bad idea.
I'm no clairvoyant but I can see the space at Greenwalls farm where they store the S8 boats might need more hardstanding as they will be getting a lot more boats.
Yeah I picked up on that, I think he had a legal advisor just off camera.
The CRT seems to have moved from a minimum distance requirement to one based on moving from one neighbourhood to another, they even go as far as saying specfying distance is not practical and give some definition of what a neighbourhood is.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/boating/licence-your-boat/continuous-cruising
(Link on that page - follow the rules)
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16 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Most of the last few years 'living aboard' videos / Blogs tend to be young(ish) wannabe hippies dropping out of society, and who are portraying what a
wonderful life it is (but never mention the emptying of the toilet, or having to fetch water or gas down miles of muddy towpatch in the Winter), or, families in financial difficulties who cannot afford to rent a flat / house so end up buying a slum-boat and are ever bemoaning what a bad life it is and, C&RT in particular, by making them move when they want to stay where they are because it is 'handy for the school'.
Just view each blog type and see how it falls into line with your own circumstances and expectations
Cheers, theres a multitude of blogs like you say and that 'Cruising The Cut' channel has a associated website with a page of other channels to explore - by his own admission he no longer maintains that page due to how many keep appearing.
No I was a bit more interested in any serious documentary put together about the CRT or Continuous Cruising esp a more up to date one, there were a few claims in that original video about CRT that (if true) are a bit worrying but it is a 7 year old video. CRT may now have a different attitude towards continous cruisers than these few individuals were painting a picture of.
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On 13/05/2023 at 09:05, Alan de Enfield said:
This one ?
That was quite an interesting little video, probably one of the only ones I've seen detailing (a part of the) the lives of people who are full time residents of the waterways. I'd like to watch more if I can as I'd have never found this video (7 year old video on a channel with 273 subsrubers, and that was the last video!).
I did try a search for 'continuous cruiser documentary' but I got a circular loop back to a thread here:
Don't know if that documentary ever got made. I did find a YT channel called "Crusing the Cut" that I'm going to look at.
If anyone has some other recomendations feel free to share😀
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I'm sorry to say I missed this, the Examiner article has some pictures here: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/gallery/17-brilliant-pictures-huge-crowd-23843861
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On 29/04/2022 at 15:02, Ray T said:
Restoration of The Huddersfield Narrow was also covered on the BBC 4 film The Golden Age of English Canals.
Thanks! This was exactly the film I was looking for.
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23 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:
i would have a look at @Tim Lewis web page on canal films Historic Canal Films
Lovely thanks, lots of links there!
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7 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
There's a DVD edition on fleabay, £30 though
HERE
I'm too tight to pay that much or i'd have snapped it up
Aye I spotted that, £30 is a lot and I'm trying to save not spend at the moment anyway....👍
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10 minutes ago, jake_crew said:
Would it be the Impossible Dream - the Huddersfield Narrow restoration completed in 2001?
Photos show Tom Rolt et al taking the Ailsa Craig along the canal ad through the Standedge tunnel in the late 40s IIRC.
Later photos and film show the restoration in progress through to completion.
I had a copy of the VHS video until recently but have some screen grabs from it.
It could be, I'd need to watch it to be sure. It's been available on DVD and VHS so I may be able to track down a copy. This link says it was narrated by Timothy West which makes sense - I've watched quite a lot of him and Prunella Scales on their own 'Great Canal Journeys' series.
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Thanks I'll put it on the watch list.
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Hi There!
I'm looking for the name of a canal documentary, I'll describe it as best I can and if anyone can offer suggestions what it might be called that would be great.
I believe it covers one of the Lancs<>Yorks canals (Leeds/Liverpool, Rochdale or Huddersfield) and is about the restoration of the canal, in particular it covers the story of the first journey for several years along the then nearly abandoned canal with the aim of proving it is still a viable navigation to prevent closure. The journey was made by at times dragging the small boat (it wasn't a barge type as far as I remember) through parts that were too shallow but the journey was made and the closure prevented.
I'm sure it was about either the Rochdale or Huddersfield as AFAIK the Leeds/Liverpool canal has never been abandoned, I may also be only remembering a small portion of a larger documentary/series. It was made in the mid to late '00s I think, possibly BBC.
Ps Apoligies my first post is a question!
George Ward evicted.
in Waterways News & Press
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As he's on the orginal video I watched with a stack of around 10+ warnings from CRT, that its now 7 years later and the eviction process is only just beginning says the same thing!