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1 hour ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Don’t get me wrong I’m not complaining 😃,
I’ll ask next time,
thought it might be a case of:
diesel going in boat then a split should be declared,
diesel in a can no split needed
🤷♀️
I remember using a yard a long while back,
“shouldn’t I be signing something” I asked.
“why? It’s all domestic ain’t it?” they said.
“well…yea” I said.
Why would anyone be daft enough to declare anything other than 0% seemed to be their view.I pulled into a marina last year for diesel and asked if I needed to fill out a declaration. "Yes" he said "but just sign it Donald Duck". "How do you know my name", I says
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Wow scary as - stay safe Alan
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My beloved Prestolite AV28 died last year. Regrettably parts are no longer available. I hope you have better luck.
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10 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
Not shouting very effectively.
I'm afraid nobody is listening.
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10 minutes ago, IanD said:
It's easy to be wise after the event with things like Toddbrook, but as I said before when an organisation is strapped for cash and has to choose between pre-emptive (and possibly expensive) work on something which might or might not go wrong and things which are a definite problem *right now*, the urgent problems always win.
Toddbrook is an interesting case -- yes it failed catastrophically, but to have seen this coming would have meant having much more regular and in-depth inspection on *all* CARTs reservoirs since you have no way to know which one will fail, and that would have taken a lot of money and manpower, which would have meant not spending it on things like replacing lock gates which have an immediate and definite positive effect.
There are always examples where after something has gone wrong people say "Why wasn't this spotted before it failed?". The answer is that there isn't enough day-by-day regular checking of all parts of the canal system, because this takes people and costs money and was one of the things that was cut back -- and it's quite possible that financially (the big problem for CART!) this was the right thing to do.
If there was enough funding -- from DEFRA, boaters, wherever -- then CART could afford to do everything they should do, regular and widespread checking/pre-emptive fixing and planned maintenance and emergency stoppages. But there isn't, and that's the real problem... 😞
There were warnings about both Toddbrook and Middlewich. C&RT's inspector warned about Middlewich years before the collapse. Then C&RT blame it on a paddle left up.
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16 minutes ago, IanD said:
Yes there are undoubtedly examples where improvements can be made and inept management decisions, like in any organisation, and yes I could undoubtedly come up with some of my own -- but like the blue signs these are all tinkering round the edges, the difference they would make is tiny ...
The difference better decisions would make to some boaters would be very helpful and wouldn't cost that much. Take Plank Lane as an example. Wigan flight as another.
And if you want serious silly decisions consider the avoidable costs of: 'wait until it fails' - Toddbrook and Middlewich aquaduct. There are other examples.
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12 minutes ago, IanD said:
Or you could stop throwing insults and swearing, and engage with the actual issues being discussed. Your choice.
P.S. What's your alternative solution, again? One that works in the real world as opposed to your imagination?
No matter what I say you would challenge it. Meet me sometime for a beer and I will give you many examples of where improvements could be made and of inept management decisions. If you were honest you could probably come up with a few yourself, but you prefer to criticise anything that doesn't fit with your own view. You seem to be one of the few who are happy to just accept the shocking state and decline of the system and content to blame the government. You don't understand the concept of smarter working calling it BS, so whats the point in debating further?
Please put me on ignore then you won't need to respond to my posts and the world will be a better place.
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10 minutes ago, IanD said:
Your total refusal to actually engage in any meaningful debate as opposed to grandstanding doesn't help your arguments one jot.
You also seem completely unable to distinguish between personal attacks/insults ("you're a c*nt") and valid attacks on what is said ("you're talking cr*p").
One is trolling (and against the CWDF rules), the second is discussion/debate -- albeit in heated terms, but then I wasn't the one who started that.
Hiding behind TLAs doesn't change this.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot -- the same to you, with (polished) brass knobs on 🙂
You are an obnoxious, childish, bullshit merchant who claims to know everything about anything. You cry when someone offers an alternative solution. You fling subtle insults then pretend you're innocent. You are indeed the world's leading troll. As others have previously said you are indeed a dick.
Please put me on ignore.
And before you respond my dad is bigger than your dad!
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22 minutes ago, IanD said:
You sound just like the Tories who claimed they could miraculously fix the waiting lists and poor services of the NHS while not spending any more money or employing more people (and cutting taxes!), usually by waving some magic "efficiency savings" or "reorganisation" or "management change" wands -- except here I suspect your magic wands are "replace contractors with inhouse labour", "get rid of blue signs", "chop away wasteful management", "sack Richard Parry", and "ignore the stupid KPIs and prioritise boaters".
And when faced with reality as opposed to rhetoric I'm confident this particular house of cards will collapse for exactly the same reasons -- it's populist bullsh*t designed to appeal to people who think there's an easy solution to complicated problems which doesn't involve spending more money to fix a long-term lack of investment... 😞
Meanwhile, back in the real world (not the one in your head full of unicorns and flying pigs) of flat/declining DEFRA grants and KPIs -- none of which relate to navigation, lock replacement, dredging, fixing paddles, stoppages -- and income which isn't enough to pay for the required maintenance to keep the canals in good order, what do you think CART could actually do to improve things?
Your "plan" sounds very much like one of Baldrick's -- and just as likely to work... 😉
Now who's flinging insults? You may wish to put me on ignore as my next response to you will make you cry 'foul'
//GFY//
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42 minutes ago, IanD said:
Excellent. Perhaps you can share your plan about how to do twice as much with the same amount of money while keeping DEFRA amd the governmant happy?
Maybe Parry and CART could then implement your brilliant ideas and save the system from falling into rack and ruin... 😉
Not until I'm in post otherwise Parry will steal my plan and take all the credit 😜-
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4 hours ago, MtB said:
Arthur is right. Whichever way we look at it, we can't afford a canal system so it is gonna get shut down one way or another.
So I think Parry is actually going quite a good job of managing the decline and close-down, making it happen as slowly as possible. He will probably spin it out until his retirement, and then Midnight can take over and demonstrate to us all how to successfully run a canal system on half the money it requires.
MIDNIGHTFORCHIEFEXEC!
I'd go with that
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23 minutes ago, IanD said:
No it doesn't, because this is a discussion forum, remember?
CART is a dumpster fire, with far too many stoppages and a huge maintenance backlog. Nobody is pretending otherwise, especially me.
How would you fix this without more money?
How would sacking Parry (your Holy Grail!) and replacing him with somebody else with exactly the same constraints improve things?
Go on, answer the difficult questions instead of just moaning all the time. I've asked them plenty of times, maybe this time you could actually answer instead of either avoiding them, diverting to something unrelated, or throwing out insults. But somehow I doubt it, because there are no easy answers... 😞
I'm sure if Parry (or anyone else) could wave his magic wand and make everything better, he'd do just that.
But there's no magic wand here, just a system breaking down because of lack of investment... 😞
But it's not just the system that's a shambles it's the management too. Need someone who understands waterways and is prepared to bang heads together to get the organisation working smarter. Now back to my question to you. Where exactly is Parry doing a good job?
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30 minutes ago, IanD said:
No, some on here think CART are probably doing the best they can given the constraints they're operating under, and that blaming Parry or saying he should be sacked is pointless CART-bashing... 😉
Doesn't stop you repeating it endlessly, though... 😞
Doesn't stop you repeating endlessly your point of view either. Other points of view are available. Tell me exactly where Parry is doing a good job. The C&RT is a shambles and an embarrassment. You cannot pretend otherwise.
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11 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Well, Bosley is shut again...
Just looked at C&RTs notices page there are TWENTY EIGHT stoppages today. And some on here think Parry is doing a good job.
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20 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
You forget that moorers already pay a lot more to CRT than CCers - in the case of all those on my last three moorings, almost twice as much. Double that again and there would be none of us left, which wouldn't do a lot for CRT's income.
Yes we do but we also get services and security CCers don't get. C&RT are skint, don't make the best of what they do have and there's no money coming from the government. We all need to find a bit more. Some will give up but others will anyway if the system continues this decline. A serious root and branch change is required.
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11 minutes ago, MtB said:
I agree with it, so you do now!
In fact I think it should be MUCH higher.
But if we all paid a higher rate there maybe more money to fix things and less admin required.
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2 hours ago, IanD said:
Apart from the issues about canal use, net payment to CART, utility seen by boater (space!), surely the point is the majority of boaters were in favour of the CC surcharge and increased widebeam surcharge?
You don't seem worried that someone with a 72' boat pays twice as much as someone with a 36' boat -- what's the difference?
The majority of those who completed the survey i.e. 26% of all boaters, hardly a mandate.
Unless you do, I don't know any boater who agrees with the surcharge. Was all boaters paying a higher rate an option on the survey?
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29 minutes ago, matty40s said:
I think they have been hammered by lack of bookings this Summer anyway from our observations round the Thames Ring.
For school holiday time to have so many boats lying idle is not a good sign.
Same up here, we have passed so many hire bases with a lot of boats tied up. Then again who wants to pay £1k plus with the chance of not being able to complete a ring or getting held up by a lock failure.
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1 hour ago, matty40s said:
The summer of stoppages seems to be staying with you.....
I suggest the problems we have suffered in Yorkshire for the last 4 years are migrating south. I wonder what will happen when the big hire fleets get hammered 🤔
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Only about half of the vendors I've used in the last two years mentioned splits or asked me to sign any declaration.
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3 minutes ago, Tonka said:
can you not get to the back of it to see what is occuring
Not so easy on Midnight but I'll take a look when we get back to base. I was hoping someone may have an understanding of how it disengages and suggest a quick fix.
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2 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
Have you tried a bigger hammer?
No but I suspect I will have to hit it with a new TFX control 😏
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4 minutes ago, IanD said:
Nope. Two people -- including you -- said that having too low radiator capacity caused short cycling and coking up for Webastos.
I said this was true for older heaters from both suppliers, but is not true for many of the newer ones they now supply.
What about this statement do you disagree with?
Yes I disagree. I never mentioned radiators. I merely posted a diagram which prevents cycling on and off using a room stat.
What about this statement do you disagree with?
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Just now, IanD said:
Pot, kettle.
The LoverlyLaura asked
Has anyone done this ? Or how would I do this ...as in most of the units in the shops don't seem to run this way ..
I provided an answer. As usual you turn the thread into a competition between your superior knowledge and anyone else who has a suggestion.
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Internet/data access on boats -- some tips
in General Boating
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I thought you just logged into the router to change channel. I can with the Huawei B535. I'm just not sure how to know which channel is best.