Jerra Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, Higgs said: CRT are the dominant partner, they have the natural monopoly. Opportunities for a marina do not spring up on every mile of the canal. Not a monopoly other navigations are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furnessvale Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, Higgs said: It would not weaken a challenge, on the basis of how many non licence payers there might be. It would not be proposed that the need for a licence be scrapped on the waterwys of CRT. It is not my responsibility either, to worry about policing. Neither is it the responsibility of marinas. Please carry on. My content to this discussion is completed at #149. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgs Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jerra said: Not a monopoly other navigations are available. So are other posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgs Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 1 minute ago, furnessvale said: My content to this discussion is completed at #149. My timetable and strategy is not. Needless to say, the latter will not be discussed on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 21 minutes ago, Higgs said: My timetable and strategy is not. Needless to say, the latter will not be discussed on here. That's a relief ? This thread, which crops up like a bad penny with monotonous regularity is always the same, it just goes round in circles. I know I could ignore it but I always hope that common sense will have prevailed and Higgs has thrown in the towel. haggis 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgs Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, haggis said: That's a relief ? This thread, which crops up like a bad penny with monotonous regularity is always the same, it just goes round in circles. I know I could ignore it but I always hope that common sense will have prevailed and Higgs has thrown in the towel. haggis You are not obliged to take any notice. It isn't in the terms and conditions of the forum. Edited October 6, 2020 by Higgs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 I suspect being able to say it is discussed in depth regularly on the forum is part of his strategy for whatever daftness he is trying to achieve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Todd Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Jerra said: Nobody forces a business to have a contract, the business considers the contract on offer (possibly after negotiation) and either chooses to accept or goes looking for a different one. CRT are not the only navigation authority you know potential marina developers could go elsewhere is they didn't like the contract. Further, a 'contract' which is not entered into willingly is not a contract. Nor is one that a court deems unreasonable 1 hour ago, Higgs said: If it is agreed that there is no licence needed in a private marina, it shouldn't be that difficult to have the clause in the terms and conditions removed, and also, for it to be removed from the NAA, as a condition of the marina business. That is not so, with all marinas. It wouldn't even be a point, if it was to be the case. But the licence is required by the marina . . . . Removing it from the NAA might be just a tad difficult . . . 1 hour ago, Higgs said: It would not weaken a challenge, on the basis of how many non licence payers there might be. It would not be proposed that the need for a licence be scrapped on the waterwys of CRT. It is not my responsibility either, to worry about policing. Neither is it the responsibility of marinas. I am led to believe that such is a condition of the NAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyboy Posted October 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Higgs said: The NAA causes the condition. You haven't answered my questions. What marina you are in ? Could put up a copy of the T&C's please ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Mike Todd said: Further, a 'contract' which is not entered into willingly is not a contract. Nor is one that a court deems unreasonable. I have never come across a contract where either side was unable to refuse to accept it. Yes they might have prefered a better contract but to achieve their aims they accept it. That is not unwillingly. What do you feel is unreasonable about requiring a boat in a marina with access to the canal to be "canal legal" I have seen car parks with just the same conditions for having a car there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgs Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 Just now, Mike Todd said: But the licence is required by the marina . . . . Removing it from the NAA might be just a tad difficult . . . Yes, it's part and parcel of the NAA obligation. Difficult..., yes, but it probably isn't on the scale of climbing Mount Everest. 2 minutes ago, Flyboy said: You haven't answered my questions. That's a fair assessment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 17 hours ago, Goliath said: I was clocked on the move Just the once as far as I’m aware Probably going so slow I looked static A few years ago, I had a dispute with CaRT over licencing. The person who I spoke to said my boat was "clocked" 6 times moving between Limehouse basin and Islington! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo47 Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 Re #145, it was aready there in Easter 2008, which was the last time we cruised the Southern Oxford. Unfortunately when we passed it I was steering, well wrapped up in warm clothes and thick gloves due to the very cold weather:- we had had several inches of snow fall the first night, more than enough to build a snowman on the gas cylinder cover in the bows as a combined figurehead and beer cooler. My camera was at the front, as were my teacher wife and student children, preparing lessons and studying for exams respectively in the warm, so I was unable to get a photo. Its chimney was smoking, indicating it was occupied. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 21 hours ago, WotEver said: Yes we are. Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour? I think you have made a mistake with the units of time. It should read "Is this the five month argument or the full decade? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 2 hours ago, cuthound said: I think you have made a mistake with the units of time. It should read "Is this the five month argument or the full decade? I blame the dark energy. Or is it dark matter? Perhaps the matter possesses energy? Just off back to my black hole now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 46 minutes ago, WotEver said: I blame the dark energy. Or is it dark matter? Perhaps the matter possesses energy? Just off back to my black hole now... Dark Energy, isnt that something to do with the Higgs Bosun theory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, matty40s said: Dark Energy, isnt that something to do with the Higgs Bosun theory? No, Higgs has moved on to train to become a Mate... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 6 hours ago, Flyboy said: You haven't answered my questions. What marina you are in ? Could put up a copy of the T&C's please ? He used to moor in Mercia marina, but dont know if he still does. They require a valid licence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyboy Posted October 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said: He used to moor in Mercia marina, but dont know if he still does. They require a valid licence. So do Barton Turns, you have to produce a copy of your licence, insurance & BSS every year as proof. This requirement came into force 2 years ago when a GRP cruiser caught fire which set fire to an adjacent narrowboat which was seriously damaged as was the pontoon. The GRP cruiser was completely destroyed and sank and the narrowboat was seriously damaged. The cause of the fire was that the owner had left something cooking on the gas hob and then went shopping. The GRP cruiser did not have any insurance. Edited October 6, 2020 by Flyboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 If Higgs is still in the area, he has Shobnall marina (Jannels) in Burton which doesn't pay NAA, Crockers Farm outside Shardlow, which doesnt pay NAA, and Shardlow Marina itself on the Trent which doesnt pay NAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, matty40s said: If Higgs is still in the area, he has Shobnall marina (Jannels) in Burton which doesn't pay NAA, Crockers Farm outside Shardlow, which doesnt pay NAA, and Shardlow Marina itself on the Trent which doesnt pay NAA. But that's beside the point, because he likes the marina he is currently in. I remember vitriolic rows on here about the legality of mooring permits, when they came in, which seemed to be in the same category of doomed barrack lawyerese. Same as all the t&c tantrums. And winter moorings. And whether 48 hours is the same as two days. Oh, and that ****ing lightship... Edited October 6, 2020 by Arthur Marshall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furnessvale Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 9 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said: But that's beside the point, because he likes the marina he is currently in. I remember vitriolic rows on here about the legality of mooring permits, when they came in, which seemed to be in the same category of doomed barrack lawyerese. Same as all the t&c tantrums. And winter moorings. And whether 48 hours is the same as two days. Oh, and that ****ing lightship... You didn't need to asterix out the word "blinking". Isn't that what lightships do? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 4 hours ago, furnessvale said: You didn't need to asterix out the word "blinking". Isn't that what lightships do? You are absolutely right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgs Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 (edited) I will mention what I invariably do end up having to mention, in these discussions: a boat or mooring is not necessary to make sense of the argument. The argument is not made on a personal level, but it does effect me personally ; this is why coming to some agreement unilaterally with a marina does not serve the main purpose. These discussions do attract the opposition, and their' frustrated childish manner, following their' inability to resolve the issue in their' 'brains'. Edited October 7, 2020 by Higgs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Higgs said: These discussions do attract the opposition, and their' frustrated childish manner, following their' inability to resolve the issue in their' 'brains'. Is it surprising? They think that "their" has an apostrophe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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