john6767

And illegal I believe.

On CRT canals, except some commercial waterways, you do not need nav lights, you are quite free to travel in the dark if you want to, and your insurance does not prohibit that. Other navigation authorities will have their own rules.

I don't think it is IE 11 that needs updates it is just that IPB does not yet support IE 11, and once they do the forum is going to need to take that version of IPB. IE 11 is quite radically different and it seems a brave more to be trying to use it at this point, give it 12 months!

We did the section from Fradley to Napton via Leicester this summer and the locks through Leicester can be hard work, we were lucky and shared with another boat all the way up through Leicester, but on your own it would be hard going. Leicester despite having the top rugby team is a bit of a dump from the canal/river though (sorry Leicester). We were the last boat through Foxton on the evening after Leicester and the next day we were next to last down Watford and at the bottom there were about a dozen boats who were waiting to come up and the lock keeper said they would not all get up that day. So you can get hold ups there if you are unlucky. But is is a great trip and a good mix of narrow, wide and rivers.

Not an expert on 4g either, but my wife has a contract phone on EE, and that drops back to 3g or even gprs (2g) as needed. On the Three network at them moment it is 3g or nothing, but they are starting to introduce 4g next month if they are on schedule. I don't think there is such a thing as a 2g dongle, and to be honest the dongles are not expensive so don't be put off getting a new one if needed.

Hum I have in the past used the £10 to £12 sim cards with 3gb of data quite a bit, but you are right having just looked they seem to have gone up to around £20 now. Still not too bad though, if you don't use much or only use it irregularly. I now have a contract phone on the One Plan, but the dongle will almost always get a signal when the phone have no service, so the dongle is still occasionally useful whew |I am working from the boat.

Very interesting stuff. I am a relatively regular visitor to Gothenburg with work, and there seems to be many small canal size waterways around the city, but no boats at all that I have seen, except for the big stuff in the docks area. I do enjoy Sweden though, particularly when I am not paying for the food and drink, it is so immaculate compared to here. So why is it the "divorce ditch"?

Interesting. About 30 mins ago the old desktop that we use as an email and print server, which runs XP, powered its self off. I pulled the tower out from under the desk and blew out a ton of dust, and after a few mins cooling it powered back on, so I thought it had overheated due to dust build up. When it booted it said that updates had been installed, so perhaps that was related to this. It is not churning the processor at the moment though, but I will keep an eye on it.

I presume this is a landline, and that a phone is working ok on the lead. If its just that you have no DSL sync I would call your ISP they can check it out.

It's a lot easier if you do it on a hill too....

To the OP, if you have a search you will see that there were IE 11 issues with CKEditor which is a component that IPB uses. So in the near term using a different browser seems like the solution.

Have you checked that the forum's version of IPB actually supports IE 11, I would be not be surprised if it did not. There are some big changes in IE 11.

Nice here too ......... Stockton

How about making more of Birmingham's past and present relationship with the canals in Gas Street Basin/Old Turn areas, with more signage and interpretation. In addition have an information boat there as well, similar to the one the is in Bancroft Basin in the summer. That would be a much lower cost option, but could help a lot in education and information to the many people visiting the central area.

Yes, very well done.

Thank you, I missed that, it now becomes clearer So it is really nights not days that count, except for the case of stopping and leaving on day one when that counts as a day. Makes you wonder why they did not say "2 nights". So I can now see that in my examples what is OK under "48 hrs rules" is still OK under "2 days rules", in fact you can have longer under the 2 day rules. In the examples you can arrive any time Thursday and leave any time on Saturday, the actual arrival and departure times are not relevant. Sill does not make it obvious or simple though.

Are you taking the same approach as David? Where is that definition coming from? If that is the case then that makes a lot of sense and you can see where you stand, so the only question is where dowe find that definition wrt CRT morring?

Sorry to be labouring this point, but I for one still don't understand how you would judge when "2 days" is up. It is easy with 48 hrs, I know what time I arrived therefore I know exactly when I need to have left by. In the 2 examples Sighted on eg 3pm Thu, 6pm Fri, 10am Sat --> 2 days Sighted on eg 10am Thu, 6pm Fri, 5pm Sat --> 2 days the first is less than 48 hrs and the second is more than 48 hrs, but I don't understand how that are both 2 days, you have been recorded on 3 days in both cases, so it seems that under the 2 day scheme both are not allowable. Does it describe somewhere how the calculation is done, and how you determine at what time you need to have left by in these 2 cases under the new scheme? Just to put some reality behind this; a couple of times this year I have made the trip into Birmingham arriving at about 1pm on Thursday and left the 48 hr mooring at about 8am on the Saturday. That is legit under 48 hrs, but if the change was made to 2 days, it would seem that would not be allowable.

Wow, your learn something every way. Are they all £6?

Yes, glad what one is clear! But if you think I have it wrong can you explain how it works in the example, because I don't get it, and clearly there is a good reason for the change from 48hrs to 2days.

OK, so that is 2, any advance!

Is there any where else on CRT visitor moorings other than Llangollen that has electric?

The point was if it was a 48hr mooring and it is now 2 days, which on the face of it seems the same thing. In the example that is fine under 48hrs as you have been there 46hrs and you know exactly when the time is up and you can plan to say within the rules. With the example and a 2 day mooring, when is your time up, you don't know do you?

Very true. I guess the whole point is you do not really know where you stand at any point in time, which can not be right.

I agree very much with Nicks post, but can I pick on on this specific point he has raised, which is one I have queried before. On the face of it 48hrs equals 2 days (so no change), but not really in the way this seems to being enforced (I believe). For example arrive 6pm on Thursday, get clocked by the warden when he comes round at 7pm. You leave at 4pm on Saturday, but on that day the warden came round at 3pm and clocked you on your "3rd day" so you are now £25 out of pocket. On the 48 hr basis you were fine, and as you have no idea when the warden comes round you do not know when you need to leave by. So really what were 48hr moorings have now become 24hr if you want to be safe, this seems extremely underhand to me. I am fearful of CRT spreading this to Braunston and Birmingham which would really hit us hard.