Hawkmoth

It's river, so I doubt it. Bob

You'll be fine on the Leeds and Liverpool. We took our 61ft (should have been 60 ft. but the builder couldn't measure!) boat all over except for the Huddersfield Broad and the Calder and Hebble, both supposed to be 57' 6". You can get up the Yorkshire Ouse as far as York, but after that the locks are short.

The mild steel will corrode quicker due to the minute currents set up between two dissimilar metals that are close to each other on the periodic table. I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me can come along and either elucidate or correct me. Bob

There is a slight possibility of galvanic corrosion using stainless fixings with mild steel.Bob

I hope you don't put me in the "squeal loudly" category. I may criticise CRT occasionally, but only if they are IMO being unreasonable. Bob

I assume from this that you never deliberately break any laws. I am guilty of many instances of rule/law breaking, I generally am aware of this, and don't consider I'm doing any harm. I'm not talking about seriously antisocial stuff, simply little things, like 75/80 MPH on a dual carriageway. Bob

Good luck finding it. But I did say "guidance" and "wise men".

Law/rules were made for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. Quoted from someone else, but still germain today. Bob

No boaters were hurt in the making of this video. Maybe some sensibilities. Bob

Dive, Dive, Dive

I doubt that the video was made at that site. I can't see CRT putting up bollards where the locals are so antsy. That location will be a marina or the like. Bob

oops!

Another consideration is that you couldn't take it norfff, well not on the L&L which is part of the reason for going. The Calder and Hebble is also out. Bob

The water point at Castleford is adjacent to the lock on the Navigation cut side of the lock,(between the two locks) Facing the lock from this side it is on your left. There is, or was, a sanitary point as well. Bob

Anywhere but France. I don't like the way they cook our lamb. Bob

Sorry, brain fade.

Nice one Alan. Where do you get them? BTW i reckon several on here are enjoying your one sided little spat with Cuthound. It is, though, a little unfair of him to come to a gun fight with a small knife. Bob

Love it!

Do you lose your NCB when this happens?

But, as has been said (by me and others) maybe they can't find a mooring near their work and/or school; maybe they can't afford a mooring in that place. They have taken to the water as, possibly, a last resort to either no home or B&B or expensive poor rented accommodation. As I said I don't have the answer, I just feel/hope that there is a better answer out there that doesn't involve just taking their home and displacing them and their kids. If they simply refusing to move on shear bloody mindedness (no kids, no medical reason) then the picture changes and enforcement is probably the answer. Bob

Perhaps because they simply cannot afford to get a mooring, they earn just enough to buy a cheap boat and hope they can avoid the enforcement. It isn't the parents who really suffer, it is the innocent kids here. I don't have any answers I'm just pointing out what I think is a reason for the situation. Bob

Mea culpa!

Yes, that one looks totally different to one we had fitted in 2011. The boat did seem to stop better, but felt she was over propped as when we got on a river we could only make about 1900 PRM flat out with a Vetus 42. Bob