Boat sightings

[haggis]

Just discovered that when you log into the C&RT web site, a new option has been added under BOATS. You can now check where your boat has been seen by one of the checkers. Sadly almost all of this years sightings of KELPIE have been in the marina. 

[Hudds Lad]

Snap. Although i mean for our boat, i'm not stalking Kelpie  

[Mike Todd]

1 hour ago, haggis said:

Just discovered that when you log into the C&RT web site, a new option has been added under BOATS. You can now check where your boat has been seen by one of the checkers. Sadly almost all of this years sightings of KELPIE have been in the marina. 

Thanks for that - interesting!

 

Have you found a good way of printing the listing?

 

Also shows interesting questions. Eg on two occasions we are listed at the same space on successive days, once in the evening and then early the next morning. Not easy to see how this is good use of time?

[Rob-M]

That's useful, may need to now update my Excel based log book with the location codes so I can cross reference.

[john6767]

That’s interesting.  In our case not anything like the number of sightings I would have expected; this year twice in the marina, and then four at various points on the system.

[Arthur Marshall]

I've spent three months this year away from my mooring, and been spotted away twice, both in May. Doesn't indicate that their spotters cover the entire network every week, which I think is what they used to claim.

[Alan de Enfield]

4 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

Doesn't indicate that their spotters cover the entire network every week, which I think is what they used to claim.

 

Ever Km is travelled by a 'spotter' every fortnight (and he is getting a bit knackered)

[Tonka]

Just now, Alan de Enfield said:

 

Ever Km is travelled by a 'spotter' every fortnight (and he is getting a bit knackered)

The Shropshire Union was done by one man on a bike

[Puffling]

Good tip, thanks.

 

As with everything else on the CRT site it must perform better on a larger screen. On a phone screen I was reduced to moving the map in a tiny square off the corner.

[Captain Pegg]

I’ve managed to cruise the entire BCN over the course of three separate visits in the past 18 months without a single sighting.

[Tonka]

20 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:

I’ve managed to cruise the entire BCN over the course of three separate visits in the past 18 months without a single sighting.

Oh come on you didnt expect to be seen on the BCN did you

[Clanky]

good spot, thanks

 

Edited September 12, 2023 by Clanky

[john6767]

1 minute ago, Clanky said:

well i cant find it, im logged in but can't see a BOATS option??

Are you in the licensing site, not tgg HR e general CRT site.  It is the same Omar’s you licence the boat and book bookable stuff etc

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

1 hour ago, Captain Pegg said:

I’ve managed to cruise the entire BCN over the course of three separate visits in the past 18 months without a single sighting.

I’ve had 3 sightings on the BCN over 18 months. 
The trick is to sit still for 14 days to be sure. 
 

Mine reads like I am very active,

I’m quite surprised 😂

 

 

I’m not sure it’s a good idea to have these sightings so easily/readily available, might encourage me to play the system a little bit (more).

[MtB]

With a lot of collaboration and data collection from all listed our sitings compared with our actual travels, we could work out some probabilities of being sighted in various locations. 

 

Not what CRT intend at all, I bet! 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

The chance of being sighted is once every 14 days if you sit still in the same place. 
 

It appears all moorings are only ever checked once a fortnight. 
Birmingham with the new restrictions is still only being checked every 14 days. 

 

[LadyG]

8 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

 

Also shows interesting questions. Eg on two occasions we are listed at the same space on successive days, once in the evening and then early the next morning. Not easy to see how this is good use of time?

Yes I've had one or two like that , and I was at one CRT location for about four sightings, over four weeks, might have been when stopped by a stoppage, and unable to move without using water unnecessarily , I seem to remember a local agreement.

Edited September 12, 2023 by LadyG

[enigmatic]

1 hour ago, Captain Pegg said:

I’ve managed to cruise the entire BCN over the course of three separate visits in the past 18 months without a single sighting.

Funnily enough I noticed Brum missing too. Not surprised they didn't bother when I was the only boat on the Curley Wurley in March, but thought they might have seen me when I was round the corner from their offices for a week!

 

Assume the records of organised vollies and bookable stuff are kept separately, as there's no Foxton, Tuel Lane, Keadby or even 5 days in Salthouse on my list

 

This is making me think could have overstayed on 2 day moorings a lot. Haven't been seen on any of them, not even the ones I stayed for a week when allowed in winter.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

3 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

Also shows interesting questions. Eg on two occasions we are listed at the same space on successive days, once in the evening and then early the next morning. Not easy to see how this is good use of time?

😂

I bet that’s where the spotter finished the day, and then was dropped off there again to start the next day to complete a further stretch. 
🤷‍♀️

 

the spotters I have talked to have a huge area to cover, 

some are dropped off by van then walk or cycle a stretch and are picked up again,

next day repeat from where they finished the day before. 
 

 

[robtheplod]

Don't ever hide your boat in Ventnor Marina, seems to be a monthly thing!!

[steve hayes]

Only had our current boat since the start of the year, but we’ve been out for about 8 weeks in total, many places.

we have two sightings, one at the marina and one on the Servern by a Lockie.

I’m certain that we have been logged on at least two other occasions, but no reference to them.

[Sea Dog]

3 minutes ago, enigmatic said:

This is making me think could have overstayed on 2 day moorings a lot.

It would be easy for the less scrupulous to collaborate and identify lots of areas that are rarely or never checked. That said, many/most of these are probably already known - we've all seen boats which haven't moved since just before the Coronation (God rest King George V's soul). 

[zenataomm]

5 hours ago, haggis said:

Just discovered that when you log into the C&RT web site, a new option has been added under BOATS. You can now check where your boat has been seen by one of the checkers. Sadly almost all of this years sightings of KELPIE have been in the marina. 

I've logged in, yet can't find an option labelled BOATS.

[Ianws]

On the portal where you manage your licence there is a link called sightings under My Boats. Click on that then select your boat and click search. 

[Naughty Cal]

6 hours ago, haggis said:

Just discovered that when you log into the C&RT web site, a new option has been added under BOATS. You can now check where your boat has been seen by one of the checkers. Sadly almost all of this years sightings of KELPIE have been in the marina. 

We often requested a copy of NC's sightings from CRT when we renewed our licence. 

 

By far and away the most common sighting was on our marina mooring despite us spending so little time on there.

 

It always surprised us that even though the manned locks recorded index numbers these were never added to the sightings records. It surely shouldn't be difficult to add those to the system?

 

It was on one trip to Nottingham that we were sighted every day for a week. The spotter must have followed us up river and back down again 🤣🤣🤣