David Mack

As a matter of law that is incorrect. Under the 95 Act, those without a home mooring are required to not remain in any place for more than 14 days (or such longer period...). There is no such constraint under the Act for those with a home mooring. However CRT (and BW before them) have sought to impose a similar requirement on those with a home mooring through their terms and conditions. The enforceability of this requirement has been questioned here, but as far as I am aware has never been tested in court, so it's a moot point as to whether a home moorer can legally stay longer than 14 days in one place.

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Sounds like you need to balance the system so that the hot water flow from the Webasto is shared between the radiator and calorifier circuits. If your radiators have manual valves at one end and lockshield valves at the other, with the manual valves fully open, try closing the lockshield valves a little, starting with the radiator closest to the Webasto and then on those progressively further away. The aim is to get the pipes leading to the calorifier to be at a similar temperature to those feeding the radiators.

Do you mean water comes out of the top of the rudder tube bearing when the engine is in gear at full tilt? This is not uncommon, and there isn't much you can do about it. My only concern would be where does that water go? With a trad stern it usually just runs onto the stern deck and harmlessly over the side. With a cruiser or semi trad stern it usually ends up in the bilges. In the latter case, if the flow is significant, you would do well to make sure your bilge pump is working so you can pump it out a couple of times during the trip.

At present the CRT staff follow the boat using one of the parallel disused railway tunnels. I have heard that as part of the Transpennine Upgrade rail services might be reinstated in one or both tunnels, which could prevent the current arrangement. So having an alternative means of communication and monitoring in place might be a necessity. Every canal tunnel I have been through in the last few years has had luminous arrows pointing towards the nearest portal, along with distance markers. I would be surprised if Standedge didn't have them fitted as part of the restoration.

The document you quoted starts off with the words "The requirements..." and goes on to quote British Standards. The average reader could be forgiven for thinking that there is a legal obligation to comply with these 'requirements'.

I had already noted that Anker is stated to be suitable for the Welsh canal - some trip for a hireboat from Shackerstone!

'Continuous Cruising' as a concept only exists on the CRT waterways. Other navigation authorities do not give you the specific choice of either having a mooring, or of continually moving within specified criteria. That said some other authorities do not require you to have a designated home mooring, and on rivers, mooring against private land (out of the main navigable channel) is just a matter between the boater and the landowner. But public mooring places are far fewer and most have significant time restrictions. The OP should start looking at marina moorings in the Oxford area.

Apart from the section between Braunston and Napton and, in limited circumstances, up to Barby Marina on the northern section.

This is Large Woolwich narrow boat Fulbourne approaching Weston Lock on the eastern Trent and Mersey Canal on 23 September 1996. The steerer is the then part owner of the boat, Stuart Anderson, accompanied by Jan.

Hiring out your boat is business use and comes under a whole different set of rules. See https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/business-and-trade/business-boating/starting-or-expanding-a-boating-business The only practical way to do this is a sponsored boat in a hire fleet. The hire company runs the boat, but you own it. But they usually source a new boat that meets their requirements, and it is very unlikely they will be interested in your current boat.

0.254mm = 1/100 inch or 10 thou?

Local authorities already have too few resources (and available homes) to deal with the current (land based) homeless population. Boat dwellers are mostly well enough off/ insufficiently vulnerable that they wouldn't get rehoused by councils anyway. So I doubt it would make much difference to councils. Van dwellers who park on local streets and annoy residents are probably more of an issue for councillors.

Could you fit some sort of adapter between the manifold and the filter housing?

I suspect the main issue is that the number of such craft coming onto the market is small, and by the nature of being exempt from some RCD requirements at the time, these craft do not have full documentation. So the BMF and the brokers are erring on the side of caution by declining to deal with such boats. Selling them (as a broker) would not be illegal, but why take the risk?