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Maffi

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  1. Jamie Please do not class CCer's and bridge hoppers as the same. A CCer has a legal standing, a bridge hopper does not See post #65
  2. Gaggle You really have a complex about other people and how they view you. The boating fraternity are, like it or not, members of a 'club' administered by BW. There are rules, every society has them. To stay as a member of any club you have to comply with the rules. Those that don't find that their membership will not be renewed. Take motoring, owning a motor car is not a right it's a privilege. It is a legal requirement that your car has TAX, MOT and insurance; also that you have a valid licence to drive on the public road. If you fail to provide these documents when asked then the courts will take away the privilege. What is so different about boating? Obtaining a licence is dependent on the boater complying with the rules. Failure to do so could result in the licence being refused. It's all very well saying "I want to do it my way", but one has to accept the inevitability of the bailiffs turning up one day and dropping ones boat on a low loader. There are some people that are 'superior' (as you put it) simply because they know the rules of the 'club and are prepared to abide by them, as opposed to those who know the rules and do everything in their power to avoid them. In the UK we all drive on the left hand side of the road. It's one of the 'rules'. What mayhem would be caused if some decided that they would drive on the right. Boating is really no different. Everyone should abide by the rules (it's a condition of the licence). That way everyone knows what to expect from each other. Your independence and personal style comes from how you paint your boat and how the fit out is done. By all means we can remonstrate with BW about the composition of the rules, but until they are changed the rules is the rules. A CCer playing by the rules will be on a progressive journey around the system. If someone is not on a progressive journey around the system he isn't a CCer, it really is as simple as that. Other terms are 'invented' to categorise them. Be it bridge hoppers, towpath trash or more accurately fraudsters. The minimum requirement of a CCer is to cruise at least once every 14 days to the next parish, given that that could be achieved in about two hours he should only need to travel for 52 hours a year. At the end of the year one can reasonably be expect him to be 52 hours cruising time from his starting point (very simplistic but you get my drift). Sitting on the same spot for six months means that the declaration he made when he bought his licence, that he was going to cruise the system, was fraudulent. Fraud is a criminal offence. So yes maybe some people are thought of as second class citizens, but merely because they are in effect 'criminals'.
  3. A 'Continous Cruiser' that doesn't, isn't.
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  8. Silly me locked myself out with an erroneous email addy. Signed on again with just 'Maffi'
  9. With all that on the roof, how do you propose to see forward when the boat is moving? Do you intend to steer the HIT or MISS technique? ie you either HIT or MISS oncoming boats depending on whether or not they can get out of your way.
  10. 18 months after 65 is not bad. The MOD expect to pay pensions for only 2 years from 55.
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  12. I thought exactly the same until I saw it with my own eyes or should that be heard it with my own ears. I spent a weekend aboard Sleepy Otter with Big Col on the Sunday before we set of down the GU Colin connected a hose to the filler pipe and turned on the tap. After what seemed to me to be a long time water started to trickle out of the overflow. Tank full. Colin turned off the tap and told me to listen to the air escape. I disconnected the hose and for several seconds after I heard air coming out of the inlet pipe. This obviously could only happen if the air was under pressure. Why this should happen I have no idea but it did. The inlet pipe had a standard 1/2" 'hozelock' type connector and the overflow was just a pipe about 1 1/2" welded into the side of the hull above the waterline. With the tank full I don't understand where the air actually was, but that much apparent pressure could possibly cause problems to a plastic tank unless of course the hose was just dangled in through a filler cap. The mind boggles, mine more than most.
  13. Your right Dan, but it is the HSE's job to make things as safe as possible within their remit. Accidents are rarely accidental. Most are avoidable. The police in my area (Wiltshire) no longer refer to Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) it always Road Traffic Incidents (RTI) nearly always, someone is responsible. Recently here in Saudia a truck 'U' turned across six lanes at midnight. No street lights, no running lights on the truck. One of our company buses ploughed in to it killing the driver and two others. Had he driven on for another mile there was a place where he could have turned with street lights and the 'accident' would probably never have happened. Now, and only now, there is a sign saying No 'U' turns.
  14. N, The HSE were investigating the death of a man who fell off the back of his boat. They commented that they were concerned at the 'total lack of any restraining rail' on a trad stern. We can't expect HSE to understand that a Trad is a Trad, but they do have a point. Had there been a safety rail as on Cruiser sterns this man might still be alive, however difficult fitting one would be. Once the HSE get their teeth into something it is difficult to stop the momentum.
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  17. Thats good coming from someone that doesnt even make the effort to get his own name right.
  18. Clarity not one of your strong points Sam
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  21. I get attacked just about every time I write, Sam. It's no biggie. If this 'abuse' is your biggest problem you are doing well. I seem to recall you splattered me once or twice. I too remember Hague giving his first speech and I must agree with Gaggle.
  22. And that Daniel is a whole different Topic.
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