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This morning 2024 Toddbrook Reservoir - temporary repairs to emergency spillway still in place - water in bypass channel. Compare 6Dec2019 (#2) 1Jan2022 26Apr2024/2Aug2019 pipes to extract water are still in place from the top of the reservoir

This morning 2024 Whaley Bridge Basin Peak Forest Compare 15May2002 17Apr1979/17Apr2007 17Apr2007 1Jan2022 10Apr2023 23Aug2013

This evening 2024 Latchford Locks Manchester Ship Canal Compare 10Sep1983 29May2006 22Sep2006 (#2) (#3) 8Jul2020 5Apr2021 (#2) 19Sep2022 10Apr2023 24Feb2024 Latchford High Level Bridge Compare 22Sep2006 8Jul2020 5Apr2021 (#2) 2Jan2023 Knutsford Road Swing Bridge Compare 28Jun2017 8Jul2020 5Apr2021 10May2023

This morning 2024 Ladybower reservoir. Compare 4Feb1996 24Jan2009 (#2) 9Feb2014 11Jun2021 19Nov2021 21Nov2021 1Jan2022 30Jan2022 14Apr2022 14Aug2022 19Nov2022 28Nov2022 2Jan2023 30Jan2023 10Apr2023

This morning 2024 (#1) Public art - Whaley Bridge Transhipment Warehouse (#2) From an interpretation board Toddbrook Reservoir. Both remembering RAF Chinook helicopter dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to help shore up the reservoir 2Aug2019

A crop from the pic. - Aylesbury Arm GU Lock 4 25Apr2018 Sadly I couln't distinguish a kowhai from any other vegetation. ...and a view from t'other direction that day 25Apr2018 Crop of earlier pic 25Apr2016. Elaine pushing the gate by the same plant and here's another yellow plant below the lock from the 25Apr2018 pic ...

On this day in 1986 Basingstoke Canal, Woodham Locks Compare 18Jun1978 10Feb1980 15Mar1981 29Apr2006 4May2006

This evening 2024 a gate nonpaddle groundpaddle with a nonpaddle in t'other half of the box Broad Cut Top Lock C+H Compare 2Sep2021 21Jun2023 Broad Cut Railway Bridge Waller Bridge

On this day in 2021 Sheffield Basin (Victoria Quays) S&SYN Compare 11Nov1990 11Nov1990/11Nov2023 31May1991 6May1995 11Jun2006 (#2) 1Jul2007 27Mar2009 12Apr2010 (#2) 13Nov2012 22Jun2014 11Oct2016 12Oct2016 10Aug2017 (#2) (#3) 22Feb2019 (#2) 8Jul2019 21Sep2019 (#2) (#3) 30Dec2019 10Jan2020 17Jul2020 (#2) (#3) 12Dec2020 (#2) (#3) (#4) (#5) (#6) 1Feb2021 (#2) 25Apr2021 (#2) 18Sep2021 20Sep2021 20Nov2021 (#2) 12Dec2021 ##2021 22Dec2021 (#2) (#3) 23Dec2021 7Jan2022 (#2) 10Feb2022 9Apr2022 24Jun2022 (#2) 24Jun2022/24Jun2023 17Sep2022 (#2) 5Jan2023 6Apr2023 9Apr2023 16Jul2023 25Jan2024

On this day 2016 Aylesbury Arm GU Lock 4 Compare 27Jan2008 21Apr2012 and on this day in 2018

On this day in 2015 Lady Capel's Bridge No 163 Grove Mill GU South, and Grove Ornamental Bridge No 164 Compare 26Jan2008 4Feb2009 11Jan2016 (#2) 16May2023

This applies to all shared boats: one co-owner causes an expensive but uninsured loss, and a (third-party) claimant acts against the richest co-owner, who happened not to be involved in the incident that caused the problem. Here's an embelishment by way of thought-experiment (*): One co-owner is unexpectedly unable to use their booked fortnight, and by happenstance, at a barbecue, meets their neighbour's cousin who has experience of lumpy-water cruisers and is really keen on trying a narrowboat, so the co-owner says they can use their weeks. (Or if the agreement between the co-owners doesn't allow subletting, then let's have this neighbour's cousin as a guest on the boat offering helpful tidal-passage advice) The fortnight includes a trip down the tidal Trent and returning to the canals at Keadby, which is successfully achieved. Sadly Thorne Lock has an unscheduled fortnight's stoppage and the only way to complete the trip on time is via Trent Falls, where a navigational error cutting the corner causes the narrowboat to sink, and a Humber Lifeboat rescue for the crew without personal injury. The wreck is blocking a shipping lane and ABP (the harbour authority) claims its extensive costs in removing the wreck from the co-owner best-placed to pay. The boat was not insured for the tidal Trent below Keadby, and has no value once recovered... (*) Subletting and scary tidal trips have both happened with other owners on our shared boats, but I've never known of any catastrophic uninsured losses. I wonder if anyone ever explains to owners signing agreements what "jointly and severally" means, and the thread inspires the question of how US law has adapted this common-law concept. Can't be extradited for debt 🙂 and having assets offshore could in these circumstances be advantageous ...

On this day in 2015 floating drydock below Denham Deep Lock No 87 GUSouth Compare 15Sep1980 3Feb2009

As advice above, probably not. This site https://www.boatrent.co.uk/how-to-insure-a-rented-boat is run by a sensible person and offers advice on how to rent out a private boat without it becoming a hireboat, and elsewhere on the site has messages from aspiring boaters seeking rental arrangements - to liveaboard rather than cruise. FWIW

On this day in 2022 HNC ,Springwood Railway Viaduct, Longroyd Lock No 4E Compare 23Apr2022