Jon Cartwright Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Can anyone suggest a route with 14day moorings and facilities,that would keep CRT happy for 12months.Working full time in Solihull and new to canal system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Generally anyone who asks "how can I do the minimum to keep C&RT happy" will end up in trouble. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-M Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Do you have access to a car or using public transport.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cartwright Posted February 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Will be using car,but would like to stay away from Brum subs if pos! Noted Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-M Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 With a car you could travel the Stratford canal, the Worcester Birmingham, the top end of the Grand Union, the Stourbridge. Really depends on length of commute you are happy to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cartwright Posted February 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 That's great Rob thanks,I'll have another look on the maps at those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 The Warwickshire ring would work well, if you want to avoid the centre of Birmingham the you could miss that section out, and turn round. Also going down toward Stratford would extend the range, but I would say mooring near to road bridges are not as easy there as on the GU/Oxford/Coventry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sea Dog Posted February 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Jon Cartwright said: Can anyone suggest a route with 14day moorings and facilities,that would keep CRT happy for 12months.Working full time in Solihull and new to canal system? What's wrong with getting yourself a mooring which gives you the the ability to travel to work that you require? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardang Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Jon Cartwright said: Can anyone suggest a route with 14day moorings and facilities,that would keep CRT happy for 12months.Working full time in Solihull and new to canal system? You can come up with a number of combinations but the one thing that will almost certainly make you change it will be planned winter stoppages and unplanned emergency repair work. One of the nice things about boating is to get to know the system by sorting out where you can explore and moor. I think it takes half the fun out of it if someone does it for you. Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murflynn Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 fixed place of work but want to 'continually cruise'. oh dear ...................... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmr Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 If you want a fixed place of work and the pleasure of CC'ing then Birmingham is about the best place to be doing it. I advise the OP to significantly exceed the minimal movement that CRT sort of allude to and all will be well. ..............Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Williams Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Used to manage this, working at Tyseley and travelling by train. Lapworth, Yardley Wood, Solihull, etc. Fifty years ago, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr Bob Posted February 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 CC'ing and having a permanent job are really mutually exclusive. You need to find a home mooring. You will mess it up for the rest of us. Home moorings are easy to find but will cost you. Living on a boat is not cheap. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boater Sam Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 What it will cost you to keep chasing your boat with public transport and your car would pay for a mooring. Having a permanent work location and CCing is not in the spirit of your licence to be on the canals. You will fall foul of the regulations at some point and it will serve you right for being such a ....................................... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Welsh Cruiser Posted February 26, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 I suggest you ignore the negative posts and concentrate on the positive ones. There's no rule, written or otherwise, that prevents people who are working from cruising without a home mooring. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyG Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Welsh Cruiser said: I suggest you ignore the negative posts and concentrate on the positive ones. There's no rule, written or otherwise, that prevents people who are working from cruising without a home mooring. Not yet..................... It just seems such a daft idea, I may be wrong, but what is the point of buying a boat and ccing if the intent is to save a few quid on mooring fees, it does not make sense. It makes sense if you really want to liveaboard but can't afford to give up work, that's entirely different in my eyes. If you don't really "like" boats, I can't imagine the hassle is worthwhile as your depreciating capital asset gradually swallows your disposable income, and breaks down in inconvenient places with expensive and possibly alarming consequences. You have to re-arrange your life around your boat, which then becomes the unwelcome epicentre of your life. Edited February 26, 2019 by LadyG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Welsh Cruiser Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 52 minutes ago, LadyG said: Not yet..................... It just seems such a daft idea, I may be wrong, but what is the point of buying a boat and ccing if the intent is to save a few quid on mooring fees, it does not make sense. It makes sense if you really want to liveaboard but can't afford to give up work, that's entirely different in my eyes. If you don't really "like" boats, I can't imagine the hassle is worthwhile as your depreciating capital asset gradually swallows your disposable income, and breaks down in inconvenient places with expensive and possibly alarming consequences. You have to re-arrange your life around your boat, which then becomes the unwelcome epicentre of your life. Some fair points there, but isn't it for the individual to make his or her choice regarding this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 2 hours ago, The Welsh Cruiser said: I suggest you ignore the negative posts and concentrate on the positive ones. There's no rule, written or otherwise, that prevents people who are working from cruising without a home mooring. Surely the "negative" posts are needed along with the positive posts to allow the OP to come to a fact based decision? That way he is less likely to have an unexpected shock. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyG Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) 36 minutes ago, The Welsh Cruiser said: Some fair points there, but isn't it for the individual to make his or her choice regarding this? I'm not expecting anyone to make major lifestyle choices based on random posters on a public forum, just sayin' this is a major lifestyle choice. Edited February 26, 2019 by LadyG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Bob Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 38 minutes ago, The Welsh Cruiser said: Some fair points there, but isn't it for the individual to make his or her choice regarding this? Jon is new to the canals. He says that in his OP. His post seems to me to be asking 'what he can get away with?'. That is not a good starting point and he needs to hear that that is the view of many on here. He can then use that 'negative' information to make his informed choice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 I know people who work and CC and cover a lot more distance than people who dont work, stop in one place for 2 weeks and then move 3 miles. Hed would leave his boat and go to work in the car, return and leave the car say 2 miles up the canal, walk back to the boat and move up to the car. If it rained he didn't do it. He would easily do 14 miles in 14 days and be in no danger of getting a ticket. It depends where you work and where you cruise and how you work it. Just think of all the south Oxford and the GU to Hatton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Captain Pegg Posted February 26, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) 34 minutes ago, cuthound said: Surely the "negative" posts are needed along with the positive posts to allow the OP to come to a fact based decision? That way he is less likely to have an unexpected shock. That's an interesting point. However I am not sure it is directly relevant here because the question wasn't whether the OP should move into a boat or not. It implied he had already done that or at least had already made that decision. There is only one absolute requirement on any boater and that it is to comply with the law. I note three early constructive responses to this thread from people I know to be active, long standing boaters and genuine advocates of the canals. Between them they also cover off most of the stereotypes we assign to various groups on here and outside of canals may have little in common. So forget about keeping CRT happy, let's put the OP in the pub with those three folk and see if he can convince them he can objectively read and apply the law regarding mooring and movement to their satisfaction. That would be a far better test. I guarantee if he can do that they won't give a stuff about what he does outside of that requirement. It really doesn't matter if you are retired and have a highly polished non-traditionally signwritten £100k boat on a marina mooring that only comes out on sunny bank holidays, or if you have a £20k Springer in grey undercoat tied to the bank in the middle of nowhere and have a job to go to. Neither has much basis in history but both are part of the fabric of today's canals. JP Edited February 26, 2019 by Captain Pegg 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post matty40s Posted February 26, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 10 hours ago, Dr Bob said: CC'ing and having a permanent job are really mutually exclusive. Absolute horseshite, I managed to do it for 5 years, both in the Midlands and also based in London. I then became self employed and CC-'d(for 4 years), only this year having to take a mooring due to various family issues. My London range was Leighton Buzzard to Hertford/Bishop Stortford and my Midlands range was Fradley/Leicester Ring/GU down to Dayton and up to Stockton. Sometimes challenging, always rewarding. 7 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 These days there aren't many permanent jobs. So being able to lug your home round the country as you go from one contract to another may well be not only handy for finding work but also manageable as a CC - even in some ways a modern interpretation of the old liveaboard working boats. Having a local temporary mooring might be simpler - even a non-residential one would change the moving rules as long as you nipped back to it overnight every few weeks. There's a difference, I think, between coexisting creatively with the rules and deliberately breaking the spirit of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardang Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 58 minutes ago, cuthound said: Surely the "negative" posts are needed along with the positive posts to allow the OP to come to a fact based decision? That way he is less likely to have an unexpected shock. Quite agree as long as they are constructive criticism. In the thread so far we have not heard anything about the OP's expectations in the longer term - is this a life style change or a brief interval in his life which may change in a year or two. Has he addressed the mundane but very real problems of power generation, toilet waste disposal, any health issues which may need access to a doctor, winter weather etc. ? It is so easy to be seduced with the current pleasant weather but not so enjoyable on a dark winter evening with a cold boat, no water and flat batteries. Howard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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