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Because I'm home poorly and bored I just searched for '+lister +gearbox' using the 'Forum' option. Found two threads: this one, and one from Chris Pink in 2010 where he was complaining about the search function.

.. and click on Google to be offered other search options.

Please also bear in mind that all boats can be blue. Better to start with a solid well appointed boat of any colour.

OK. Not my definition of twee. More twaditional I'd a' thought.

Twee, really? In what way?

Brighton and Nuneaton are indeed waiting below the lock to move on. Possibly the speaker had a blocked nose - although in that case the butty would have been 'Bridon'.

Take the tiller home? Fasten the swan neck 'hard over' to the guard rails (if you have them) with a motorcycle lock and chain? Variations on that with longer chains to welded brackets? Hidden kill switch on electric fuel cut-off if fitted? Hidden manual fuel cut off - at least you'll know the boat didn't get far? Add a loud klaxon into the electrical circuit that activates once the alternator is functioning unless turned off by the not-obvious switch? Locking devices on gear selection equipment? Take the blowlamp home? (Edit after MtB's post).

Just leaving to visit. I'll try to get some photos on here later.

They'll be boats, Jim, but not as we know them ... The planning statement from architects Munkenbeck and Partners on behalf of applicant, Capitalbond Ltd, said: “The new barges will be built to a high specification and will be managed in the same way as the rest of Carlton Gate.” I'm expecting some floating bungalows with no engines.

Going way of topic now, but having worked in that environment, some of the civvies I worked with in control rooms were streets ahead of the cops, some of the cops I wouldn't have paid with washers. And all variations in between.

I think that's still forum conjecture ...... however it's very difficult, nay impossible, even with computers to ensure that ever call handler is fully au-fait with an update on every one of those incidents that was reported in the last 12 to 24 hrs. So cock ups happen.

Not trying to defend the police to any great extent, but I wonder if forum members have any concept of the number of calls a mid-sized county force, say 3600 officers and around 1500 police 'staff' deals with every day. It's easily in excess of 1500, peaking nearer 1800 in the summer silly season which we are in the middle of. They still prioritise on the protection of life and property in that order, so on Friday night not that far from Derby centre they would be unlikely to have anyone for property recovery until around 0600, maybe 0700 when the day shift come in - and that's assuming they aren't picking up the leftovers of the night before. Edit: Posted in response to Juniors and Alans posts, but quotes not used as it's not meant as a direct 'rebuttal', just an observation.

I believe the published events are open to the public, but the as the poster says you have to be either an HNBC or BCS member to get into the bar in the evening. I'm in the BCS but not sure how I'll prove it. Parking is in the nearby town centre car parks - the train (Waterloo / Bournemouth line) is an option, not too far to walk. Hoping to join the NBT crew for a beer tomorrow evening.

Special Forces use that in eye-drop form. Makes them look well hard.

To be accurate, the police record allegations of crimes. They then investigate them. In a perfect world they interview the person responsible and after corroborating the facts on both sides to the degree possible they either charge someone or don't. It is not uncommon for a recorded crime to be written off as 'no crime committed' if that's the conclusion they reach possibly after a consultation with the CPS. In this case the boat is a conveyance and its removal from the marina without lawful authority might well fall under 'Taking a Conveyance' rather than theft, where an intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property is needed. If the boat had been removed with lawful authority that would only be after considerable interaction with the owners, so they'd know about it. Unless the owners are proactively seriously deceiving the forum it would serve them if the boat could be located, allowing the authorities to put due process in motion.

Without wishing to add to the rife speculation - that does rather suggest he was acting on instructions from a third party.

Postcodes are for the convenience of the mail deliverers. No buildings, no letterbox, no postcode. An area might be caught up in a wider area postcode in the rural but it's not guaranteed, and in urban areas a postcode can be one address. When I worked managing and supporting a police command and control system, one of the jobs was constant updates of the gazetteer of locations where no postcode existed - beauty spot car parks etc. I put all the bridge numbers for the bits of the Basingstoke in the county on it, but not may of the dispatchers would know to ask for it. We had to call an ambulance to the boats a few weeks ago: used the road and number for a nearby cottage and stood outside to redirect them.

No small task, but assuming the boat is visible on a camera when static, it only needs a daily dip sample at first light to spot which day it went, then a review of that day at fast forward to nail down the time, then a review of the important footage. If it's a case of watching a camera pointed at the marina exit and playing 'spot the boat' it's a bit more challenging, but fast forward with a quick rewind will still help move things along. The Video files for cctv are humongously large, probably impractical to share them.

Have I got this right? Line one = life rings don't disappear. Line two = the kids won't take long to fin d out how to nick them? Errm?

We were slotting the motor in one lock and the butty on the other on the way back from Northwich, halving our time for each rise which to my mind is exactly what they were built for. It was put to me the one lock is for up, the other down, by someone who had been held up for, ooh, 3 minutes and had the lock set for them. One word answer, I'm afraid.