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Tam & Di

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  1. 6 hours ago, LadyG said:

    When you pay someone, they give you a receipt, that's how business works.

    Records are kept for accounting purposes.

    Accounts are kept so tax is paid.

    The taxman uses that money to keep the economy running.

    When you pay someone in business you can ask for a receipt, certainly, and if appropriate these could be used to substantiate payments you've made in the personal accounts you present to HMRC. A 'statement of affairs' should show all the relevant transactions, but the figures shown there cannot be technically regarded as 'receipts' and used in the same way - they won't show any of the same detail.

     

    I don't think you'll get very far trying to convince HMRC that this company is acting dishonestly.

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  2. 1 hour ago, IanD said:

    <sigh> most reasonably people would say a lock is full when the water level inside is the same as the upper pound outside and you can open the gate -- which is of course what I meant... 😁

     

     I'd agree, though I do often talk of it 'making a level' which is effectively the same thing. That works in either direction, rather than having to use "empty" - on here it seems there are those who would query "empty" unless the lock had been physically pumped dry. 😁

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  3. 2 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

    Watched it and thought 🤷‍♀️reasonable enough

    3 comparing live aboards to keeping the traditions of living like boating families of old, utter nonsense.

    That's what struck me too. I appreciate that it is aimed at the naive viewer, but they could at least have show some pictures of an actual working boat to give a better view of the life.

  4. 56 minutes ago, davidwheeler said:

    Well now, that is a lovely picture. A ketch rigged trow at the rear, then what looks to be a smack rigged trow, and another ketch, all being towed through the swing bridge. Is there by any chance a date on the back of the card?

     It's listed as about 1912.

  5. We did a couple of retail coal trips to Cadbury's Wharf in Frampton early '70s, loading at Gopsall on the Moira. Coal boats to Cadburys were still in people's memories and we had no problem selling some 15-18 tonnes to locals as I recall. The hulks at Purton were still relatively intact at that point. We did continue on to Bath once, long before the K&A was reopened, and someone subsequently sent us postcard showing Towcester moored below Pulteney Bridge.

     

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, zenataomm said:

    The roses look a tad naïve to my eye. 

    The lettering is very amateur as well. Lots of boatmen painted their own and they would generally have that sort of appearance, but 50 years old only takes it back to mid-seventies and there were not a lot of working boatment left at that time.

  7. 11 hours ago, Tam & Di said:

    75' is right as I recall. We did cruise several times to Braunston and once to Sampson Road Birmingtham with no great trouble.

     I see from previous posts I noted the dimensions as 74' x 12' 6".

     

    2 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

    It’s worth remembering that the published maximum craft dimensions have their origins in the size of boats recorded using the waterway at a specific point in time and not in the actual size of the infrastructure.

    That may be the case now, I don't know, but published dimensions certainly used to be determined by the infrastructure. Despite Progress being built for the GUCCC I've never seen published dimension of the GU listed as 74' length. Use of the canal was certainly a factor at the point several were being classed as 'remainder waterways', and the K&A could not be closed as a canoist was able to prove he had used it in the previous 12 months.

  8. And FireFox still refuses to connect me via the link in mail telling me that there is a relevant post. I have to go a long way round and click on "recent entries". I know it has been mentioned before.

     

    Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

    Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to url7653.canalworld.net because this web site requires a secure connection.

    What can you do about it?

    url7653.canalworld.net has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

    The issue is most likely with the web site, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the web site’s administrator about the problem.

  9. 14 hours ago, magnetman said:

    I've been considering putting a small sink in the shopping launch due to occasionally having dirty hands. 

     

    The general idea seems to be to get a ss dog bowl or similar for this as it is going to need to be smaller than standard products and cut a hole in it for the drain but I am wondering what tool to use for the cutting..

     

    This?? - won't need a hole then (from Dave Moore about a year ago)

     

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  10. On 05/02/2024 at 21:41, Lincoby said:

    After many years coastal sailing I’ve been researching buying a Narrowboat and wondered what a broker would ideally choose to sell based on popular queries.

    I am guessing a semi trad reverse layout but could be surprised !

    As already said, it's a very odd question. Are you asking because you are planning to become a broker? Or do you want to know so you can sell your boat on more easily when you get fed up or find the life unsuitable?

  11. 13 hours ago, MtB said:

     

    Would that give me a tender behind?

    Not necessarily. You might have the tender spot in front, on your 'nose' by the terminology used by Crewcut. 😃

  12. George & Helen Smith on Petrel and Moon on the retail coal trade for Ashby Canal Transport (you might have seen us too, with Towcester & Bude and Stamford - here we'd loaded Towcester and Bude and are loading Stamford for 15 year old son Jason to follow us down)

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  13. 38 minutes ago, Tracy D&#x27;arth said:

    Duck hatches are really side doors, unless you use them for egress then its duck or grouse when you bang your head.  Heard swan hatch  before but not duck.

     Not a term I've come across, but in continuation of the bird theme they could perhaps be called nuthatch holes. 🤯

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  14. 1 hour ago, jpatrick101 said:

    Thanks. I've got third party insurance which specifically excludes wreck recovery. And they won't quote for fully comp insurance for a boat on Airbnb. 

     

     

    From what you say I can see why you are concerned. Have you looked at insurers used by hire boat companies? I'd imagine their cover should suit your circumstance - it would pretty certainly include recovery of wreck.

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  15. Sorry for the omission. I have a MacBook Pro with OS High Sierra v10.13.6. CWDF send notifications to my address on the Apple Mail program. I generally use Firefox 115.3.1esr, but I get the same effect with Safari too. I just received the CWDF advice re RichM's post and couldn't get to CWDF via the 'Go to this post" link, but I'd kept a connection open on my desktop so I read it and sent this reply via that.

     

  16. I've not said it was incorrect - simply that to pose a converted butty without towline in a picture supposedly of an ethnic canal scene is jarring to my eyes. If he wished to avoid incorrectness the engine house would not be there.

  17. 11 hours ago, John Brightley said:

    Nebulae was at the 1984 Hawkesbury National Rally and I believe the conversion/ refurbishment had just been completed.

     

    It seems odd to me to simplify the setting and reposition the engine house to suggest an 'ethnic' canal scene, but then not to at least pretend that Nebulae was a butty under tow. I find it an irritating contradiction.

  18. I don't know if the issue has been resolved in any way, but I am now getting much the same message if I click on an eMail link from the address no-reply@canalworld.net advising that a member has posted on a topic I am following. I got in now via my Firefox history which showed a connection  I made a month ago:

     

    Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

    Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to url7653.canalworld.net because this web site requires a secure connection.

    What can you do about it?

    url7653.canalworld.net has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

    The issue is most likely with the web site, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the web site’s administrator about the problem.

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