David Mack

How much?? At that price I would expect it to drill its own hole!

I find it hard to believe that the assets of the Rochdale Canal Company were worth as little as that in the late 1990s. The area occupied by the canal is a huge amount of land, much of it in urban areas, which in other circumstances could have been built on. That would surely have realised a sum orders of magnitude bigger than half a million quid.

That assumes that the charge is the only legal security the Millennium funders had.

Just got this message below a draft post. Since the message did get posted, had I accidentally clicked the Submit button twice? Is this an end to the double posting bug? l

My school didn't do metalwork, and I wasn't allowed to do woodwork. But the school did agree I could drop Latin and take German instead. But I did take Engineering Drawing O Level as a subsidiary subject in 6th form.

Car insurers will need a physical address where the car is normally kept. So simply using a friend or relative's address when the car is rarely there is actually a breach of your insurance, although some CCer boaters do it. Official residential moorings are as rare as hens teeth but there are numerous liveaboards who live unofficially in marinas and online moorings. Mooring operators tend to look the other way at such breaches of their terms and conditions, provided you keep your head down and don't disturb them or any floating or land-based neighbours, or draw the attention of the authorities. Some marinas even have a (more expensive) 'high intensity' mooring category which allows you to spend more time aboard while in the marina. A few days away from base periodically is usually enough to show thar you aren't a permanent resident. Some marinas will allow you to use their address for official purposes (banks, DVLA, Passport etc.), to receive post and courier deliveries, park a car etc. Others won't and you will have to make alternative arrangements. Don't discount boats elsewhere. You will have a much larger choice. The biggest concentration of brokers is the Braunston/Whilton area. The biggest online boat sales site is apolloduck.com and most of the brokerage firms advertise there as well as private sellers. Browsing the duck will at least give you an idea of current boat prices, but do go and look at a few as well - what appears in adverts isn't always what boats look like in the flesh.

Not really. Just a couple of MPs commenting on the issue, and the government spokesman parroting the standard response.

Section 104 of the Transport Act 1968 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/section/104 Under Subsection (3) the Minister may reclassify waterways. But interestingly, under Subsection (3A), CRT may request the Minister to do so, and under Subsection (3B) the Minister then has to have regard to CRT's financial position. Parliament's only role in this is a right to veto a Minister's reclassification under Subsection (4).

I suspect the fees of other payment platforms would be higher than PayPal.

My take on that is that the path from the firebox to the chimney may be partially blocked. I would lift the lids on the top and remove the circular cover on the flue box to check that there is a clear path from firebox to the flue and that the flue itself is clear.

I believe that under the 1968 Act the Secretary of State for Transport has the power to reclassify waterways without reference to parliament. That was in BW days. I'm not sure how the transfer of the waterways to the (nominally perhaps) independent CRT has affected that, either in terms of the SOS's power to act or her willingness to do so.

Professionally crewed passenger boats (trip boats, hotel boats etc.) are commercial craft as defined in the RCD and RCR, and are therefore not required to comply with the RCR/RCD requirements. Self-steer hire craft which are hired out for leisure use (without crew) in the course of business are used commercially (small 'c'), but they are classed as recreational craft for the purposes of the RCD and RCR and therefore are covered in exactly the same way as privately owned leisure craft. I quoted the relevant sections of the RCR to support my position the last time this came up.

While I agree that an app would make it easier, I have reported problems to CRT by email for non urgent issues (like the tree which fell across the River Stort in front of my eyes, but which left just enough room to get past) or by phone when my own progress was impeded (lock gates that wouldn't open fully). Contact details are on the CRT website.

Alan, you are at it again. What you have quoted is not mandatory. What do the Essential Requirements of the regulations actually say? Edited to add I've looked it up. All very general compared to what you have quoted.