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Maffi

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  1. On 12/05/2021 at 10:50, IanD said:

    The eBay key doesn't have the same cutting profile as the BWB one (which has flat bottoms to the cut where each lock pin engages), I'm not surprised it doesn't work reliably.

    Then dont buy it!

  2. On 27/04/2015 at 08:20, jonesthenuke said:

    I have a copy key, bougt to replace a lost BW key. Sometimes its OK and sometimes (too often) its not. The Thrupp lift bridge absolutely refuses to accept the copy key and works immediately on a CaRT/BW key (I borrowed one from a helpful hire boat).

     

    So last week I spend the £10 or so and ordered an official key. I wish I had done this in the first place.

    £10 are you mad? CRT sell them for £7.

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    On 17/05/2021 at 16:04, mrsmelly said:

    You can wind just as you enter the long term moorings north Banbury into the little arm behind wickes or thereabout, past Tesco corner. The only other point is end of the Tramway moorings as Athy says about half mile through Banbury lock. Water points indeed top and bottom of the lock both on right hand side going downhill.

    Is Calthorpe winding bhole at the end of the Tramway as I never call it Calthorpe if it is then you could get a ninety footer round ok.

    Only if you crane it in!?

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  4. On 17/05/2021 at 15:35, Athy said:

    There are two -places to wind just before the town, I think they are the two ends of a former loop which was straightened in connection with a new road scheme some years ago. The first just has a concrete wall set back from the main course, the second one has moorings, but your boat should get round. There is, in theory, space to wind at Sovereign Wharf but it's hard to spot, and anyway it's supposed to be for resident moorers only.

       You will NOT get round just before the lock. Our boat, 45 feet long, manages it with literally inches to spare. The water point, by the way, is below the lock. About half a mile further South on the right-hand side is an official winding hole.

       ....and that concludes Your Holes For Today.

       

    Are you sure your boat is 45 feet long? The space below the bridge is only 43 feet.

  5. On 22/05/2021 at 08:28, Nightwatch said:

    The disabled loo have been out of action for years. I don’t think the bus station loo is an option to empty cassettes. No reason to think that, just a feeling.

    And that was due to vandalism too!

  6. On 20/05/2021 at 19:09, BlueStringPudding said:

     

    My brother who is in the area told me this too - he reckons the Elsan point has only been working a handful of times in the last three months. So people have been emptying their cassettes into the public toilet there apparently, and blocking that as well.

    And the disabled toilet.

  7. On 19/05/2021 at 20:17, Jennifer McM said:

     

    There's a space under the bridge there where kids, and some not-so-kids, looked to be doing drugs, amongst them were some youngsters who looked (to me anyway) vulnerable. It didn't look good as some of the group were aggressive, so I phoned the police. Police said they knew what was going on.... I couldn't do any more :(

     

    Are you suggesting that those under the bridge are the vandals?

  8. Just so you all know the Elsan disposal point in Banbury is locked due to vandalism. I spoke to the guys that shut it and the had no idea when it was to open again. 

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  9. On 09/05/2021 at 16:48, OldGoat said:

    For canal folk  - yes, for river and sea use folks leave them down......

    I get your point but once, on the River Wey, I tried to follow a Springer into a lock and failed to get in given that he had the largest fenders I had ever seen. All of them white plasticky material! 

  10. 7 hours ago, sdraper78@live.com said:

    I'm new to boating and recently moved aboard my 52 boat with my westie, she has become so nervous due to the day hire boats on the Llangollen canal speeding up and down causing such a wake, no response from emails I've sent to local companies, what can be done other than leave a place I love, steve

     

     

    It's all about having tight lines and a decent bit of rubber between you and the bank. My side fenders are old anti-shimmy aircraft tyres about 5 inches thick. Dont go for kart tyres waste of time and money. Once moored I rarely move, maybe an inch or two, despite being moored on the out side of a breasted pair. and the lift bridge traffic is myopic. Never laid a spring in 15 years. 

     

    You can shout at the speeders as much as you like it will not change.

  11. 4 hours ago, Pete Flint said:

    Thanks Ray, not sure whether a key will be supplied with the hire boat, dib, dib, dib just being prepared, lol.  ?

    It would be rather odd for the base not to supply you with keys required. 

  12. 1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

    I thought it was the whole thing maffi found, not just a cassette 

    8 out of the nine were complete. The two found recently were also complete.

     

    The one I found in Banbury not far from the disposal point was the one that was a box only.

    There was one other under the bridge at Barby but it was not safe to move so I called CRT and left it to them.

  13. 2 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:

     

    No it isnt.

    It is. If a lot of people call a porta-potty type 'commode' an elsan it becomes an accepted 'thing'. Such a thing only needs to become a written about thing in publishing and it will be considered for inclusion in the Oxford dictionary.

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  14. On 23/04/2021 at 21:55, Jerra said:

    Do I take it you unfailingly call the thing you clean the floor with a vacuum cleaner rather than as many do a "Hoover"?   

    No I call my floor cleaner a mop! ?

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