David Mack

Has anyone suggested that the prolonged failure to get Keadby sliding bridge sorted should mean that Network Rail is told to divert all the trains so the canal can be kept open for boats?

I'm not seeing the picture.

Depends entirely on how the boat was fitted out. Most boats are lined out first, then the transverse partitions are fitted. But some are done the other way round, which makes moving the partition a much bigger job. Don't underestimate how much fiddling about will be involved in sorting out the apparently minor details like trimming edges and matching finishes. And that assumes the job doesn't involve moving plumbing or wiring. The cost will depend on whether you have the time, skills and resources to do the job yourself, or whether you have to engage someone to do the job for you.

Under CRT's Ts and Cs the charge is payable. That's all any court dealing with debt will be interested in. But it wouldn't get that far. CRT would refuse to renew your licence because of the debt. Then they would take action for having an unlicensed boat on their waters. Previous cases have shown that courts take the narrow view, and the boater does not get the opportunity to explain to the court why the boat is unlicensed.

#1 is a union. #2 is not, it is the fuel delivery valve and not something that should be touched. With fuel coming out at #3 when you work the fuel pump, you should retighten #3 then open all of #6-9. Crank the engine at full throttle - you just first get a mixture of bubbles and fuel and then neat fuel coming out of #6-9. Only when you have neat fuel from at least 2 of the connections should you tighten them and crank again. If you have reassembled it correctly and not let any dirt get in you should be OK. Otherwise it may need sorting professionally. But that isn't your main problem. You should still be able to get the engine to start and run (roughly) on the other three cylinders.

The CCer surcharge is nothing to do with a mooring payment. If you are licenced as a CCer but nevertheless take an EoG mooring then you are liable for the EoG charge same as anyone else. If you refuse to pay, CRT can take the same action for debt recovery they can in any other debt situation. Probably most likely that they will refuse to issue a licence when it comes up for renewal, and will require you to take your boat off their waters, under threat of it being Section 8ed.

You haven't got a separate engine stop knob/lever pulled out have you?

George Best. "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

When starting in cold weather with a battery known to be of limited capacity, I have turned the engine over a couple of hundred turns on the handle to get everything moving and lubricated, so I can make use of the all available battery energy to get the damn thing started!

Indeed. But some seem to be suggesting that being licenced as a CCer exempts the boater from paying the EoG fee to CRT if they do take a mooring (and don't/can't) change their licence status.

How many do you want?

That is under the disused railway bridge at Cassio Wharf.

And no different in principle from a CCer taking a paid for mooring in a marina for a couple of nights. Some on here would seem to be suggesting that a boater without a home mooring is not permitted to pay for any mooring at all!

My Samsung phone is on Chrome 123 and yours on 106. So I would try upgrading Chrome first. I find the Samsung native browser works well on my phone. As yours is also a Samsung you could give it a try. It can be downloaded from Google Play.

After placing the tape, run a line of the colour under the tape along the edge first, and then paint the contrasting colour. That way any bleed under the tape will be the first colour, not the second , and you will get a crisper edge.

In many cases there is no contract between the farmer and CRT, and thus no contract to breach. There is one contract between the farmer and the boater, and another between the boater and CRT. And CRT's ability to control the moorings against the farmer's land can only be exercised by whether they allow the boater to moor there.

According to @koukouvagia's website: The Northern Lighthouse Board put Kelvin twin cylinder K2 engines into 12 lighthouses to charge up the foghorns. Each lighthouse had three engines – two in use and one on standby. They received relatively light use – about 500 hours per year and were regularly serviced and lovingly maintained. In the late 80s the lighthouses were automated and the Kelvins were no longer required. Many were destroyed and one or two found their way into museums. The Kelvin in Owl came from Langness Lighthouse on the Isle of Man. It was taken and dumped at the Laxey Heritage centre and would, no doubt, have ended up as scrap had not Phil Trotter of RWDavis, Saul, rescued and rebuilt it. https://www.narrowboatowl.com/the-engines

As far as I can see he's just someone fairly local who makes boating videos, with no other connection to the boat or its owner.

Steve and Nick put a great deal of work into maintaining canalplan as a free app for boaters. So better you log the bug in their system (not just here) so it can be investigated, prioritised and fixed appropriately. Creating an account allows you to save your preferences so that they are there every time you use the site (logged in) and you don't need to reenter them. I long ago set my preferences to include the journey time for each leg, as well as the miles and locks, and also the cumulative figures from the start of the trip, as this makes it much easier to obtain the miles/locks/time between two intermediate points without rerunning the whole thing.

I suspect it will vary from one prop to another, so somebody else's measurement may not be right for yours.

Oue attendance at Cavalcade in one month's time is now in doubt!

Some time back I filled up at a boatyard where the customer fuel declarations were all in a ring binder on the shop counter. Flicking through I saw that almost every customer had declared 0% or perhaps 5% proplusion. But the yard didn't have that many moorings!

And rather than an anonymous painted steel box with a morse lever at the top, how about one of these?

Then you are back to the original problem of having to stand too far back to reach the controls. That is a nice piece of work. But surely the better answer is, as often done on cruiser stern boats, to mount the speed control on a separate pedestal within reach of the steerer, rather than putting it inside the cabin doors.