Continuous cruiser

[mikevye]

I'll just come in and sit down don't mind me I'm the elephant in the room.

 

Are you the one on CPs boat who did the 40kilo crap?

[Naughty Cal]

Are you the one on CPs boat who did the 40kilo crap?

 

Thanks, water sprayed everywhere now

[Grace and Favour]

Thanks, water sprayed everywhere now

 

It wasn't water

[Naughty Cal]

It wasn't water

 

What i just spat at my keyboard was

[soldthehouse]

Personally, I find continuous posters more of a problem than continuous moorers.

 

Perhaps we should have a poll.

Surely a forum is for posting Allan, so dont just sit there get posting....

[Smelly]

Late to the party as ever...

 

We pay for a mooring. It's a real one as well, pontoon and a fence and everything. However it's in a poor location so we tend to spend a lot of time out in the sticks.

 

With my long hair and Bp's dreads people often assume we don't pay our dues however that is far from the case. I wonder how we fit in?

 

I ask in part as I know a few folk on the peak forest and macc who have moorings .but.tend to potter as we do and complain of the tarry brushes that some folk wave.around.

 

Just wondering...

[Allan(nb Albert)]

Surely a forum is for posting Allan, so dont just sit there get posting....

 

You may well be right so here goes!

 

In another poll 42% of those that could be bothered to vote clicked on

 

There is nothing more to say, but if people want to argue, who am I to stop them

 

I don't think this is true! Earlier this year a government department made a ruling that will require local authorities to consider some CC'ers as "travellers" under the 2004 Housing Act as they are nomads. A news article may be published in narrowboatworld very shortly.

 

This should have an impact on local mooring strategies as L.A's will have to take into consideration the needs of some boaters without a home mooring.

 

In theory, it should lead to the provision of further places where one can moor for 14 days even if it means that dredging and piling has to take place. This should reduce pressure on visitor moorings in some areas.

 

However, I suspect the label of "travellers" will simply reinforce the views of a few bigots who would wish to ethnically cleanse the waterways of all CC'ers due to the actions of a very small minority.

 

The fence is teetering as I sit on it!

 

***** Edited to say the narrowboatworld article is here

Edited February 1, 2010 by Allan(nb Albert)

[twinpot]

To be honest I've had more problems with the retired boaters who stop at 1pm and bag the best moorings than with non-moving bona fides. Perhaps we should make it a condition that no one is allowed to stop for the day before 7pm

Last season i was able to keep going till 3pm before having to moore up for a rest,this season i may have to moore up at 2pm. When i cant carry on after 1pm,i will sell my boat and get out of your way,i didnt realise i was being such a pain to other boaters,i must tell my other half, she will be mortified.

[soldthehouse]

Last season i was able to keep going till 3pm before having to moore up for a rest,this season i may have to moore up at 2pm. When i cant carry on after 1pm,i will sell my boat and get out of your way,i didnt realise i was being such a pain to other boaters,i must tell my other half, she will be mortified.

Theres no logic to Magpies comments if you fail to stop early then the mooring you would have taken will be vacant for some one else and the one they would have taken will then be available for you ,or someone else its not a case of musical chairs where someone has nowhere to moor at all unless someone is constantly on the lookout for theideal mooring spot, but I would think anyone would be hard pressed to hit on lucky for the ideal mooring everyday..... Keep at it..

[magpie patrick]

Theres no logic to Magpies comments if you fail to stop early then the mooring you would have taken will be vacant for some one else and the one they would have taken will then be available for you ,or someone else its not a case of musical chairs where someone has nowhere to moor at all unless someone is constantly on the lookout for theideal mooring spot, but I would think anyone would be hard pressed to hit on lucky for the ideal mooring everyday..... Keep at it..

 

There wasn't supposed to be any logic! Other than, I'd like to more there, bugger, someone else already has...

[soldthehouse]

There wasn't supposed to be any logic! Other than, I'd like to more there, bugger, someone else already has...

Is this a notable few or do you come accross it regularly...

[mrsmelly]

Last season i was able to keep going till 3pm before having to moore up for a rest,this season i may have to moore up at 2pm. When i cant carry on after 1pm,i will sell my boat and get out of your way,i didnt realise i was being such a pain to other boaters,i must tell my other half, she will be mortified.

 

What always astonishes me with over ninety percent of boaters is their apparent want to moor up in a great long line of other boaters in so called mooring hot spots. The old girl and myself simply pull up well before or after these alloted mooring locations all by ourselves there are still many many miles of free space on most of the system..why do so many wish to be in a floating caravan park........

[madcat]

Sir Nibble on the fence munching,talking cat sitting among the plasticine flowers chewing a curried rat.

[soldthehouse]

Sir Nibble on the fence munching,talking cat sitting among the plasticine flowers chewing a curried rat.

Roll me one please...

[Naughty Cal]

What always astonishes me with over ninety percent of boaters is their apparent want to moor up in a great long line of other boaters in so called mooring hot spots. The old girl and myself simply pull up well before or after these alloted mooring locations all by ourselves there are still many many miles of free space on most of the system..why do so many wish to be in a floating caravan park........

 

Its sometimes nice to be sociable though

[magpie patrick]

What always astonishes me with over ninety percent of boaters is their apparent want to moor up in a great long line of other boaters in so called mooring hot spots. The old girl and myself simply pull up well before or after these alloted mooring locations all by ourselves there are still many many miles of free space on most of the system..why do so many wish to be in a floating caravan park........

 

Well our favourite moorings on the G and S are near Splatt Bridge, fine view over the estuary, and but a short walk into Frampton, and Gilgol Brook. At Splatt, there are permanent moorings on the other side, but few choose to moor on the "towpath" side. I suspect we are the only boat that ever moors at Gilgol

That's coz it's a horrible place and you wouldn't want to, honest

[jonk]

Hi all,

just got back from a snowy UK - got snowed in twice!

Seems that some of you have found an alternative way to keep warm? :lol:

Happy New Year

[mayalld]

Hi all,

just got back from a snowy UK - got snowed in twice!

Seems that some of you have found an alternative way to keep warm?

Happy New Year

 

I wonder what the calorific value of an incandescent bleeding-heart-liberal is....

[jonk]

I wonder what the calorific value of an incandescent bleeding-heart-liberal is....

Probably the same as any other twit?

[KeithL]

There has been much heated discussion about what constitutes a continuous cruiser, and whether certain pattern of use are legitimate.

 

So, let us cut to the question, and see whether people thing some hypothetical cruising patterns are OK.

 

The examples are local to me, because they were easier to dream up, but people from elsewhere can easily look them up!

 

In every case, the moorings given will allow the boater to be at Manchester Picadilly using a train that takes less than an hour, and is within 15 minutes walk of the train station.

 

In each case, the boater moors for two weeks at each location before moving on, and after two weeks at the last location returns to the first. The pattern repeats for ever

 

why are you so worried about what others are doing? you need to get a hobby or something to fill the time

[mayalld]

why are you so worried about what others are doing? you need to get a hobby or something to fill the time

 

Why are you so worried about what I concern myself with? You need to get a hobby or something to fill the time.

[Allan(nb Albert)]

Why are you so worried about what I concern myself with? You need to get a hobby or something to fill the time.

 

Dave

 

You will always be my hero for your stand on the "boater on the board" issue.

 

However, bearing in mind this topic, I would suggest that the debate has moved on:-)

 

As the person that resurrected this topic with two polls, I am sure you would want to contribute.

[mayalld]

Dave

 

You will always be my hero for your stand on the "boater on the board" issue.

 

However, bearing in mind this topic, I would suggest that the debate has moved on:-)

 

As the person that resurrected this topic with two polls, I am sure you would want to contribute.

 

Indeed I will wish to contribute on that subject.

 

However, rest assured that I can manage the workload of contributing to multiple threads

[Allan(nb Albert)]

Indeed I will wish to contribute on that subject.

 

However, rest assured that I can manage the workload of contributing to multiple threads

 

I would be more assured if you had contributed to the other thread before responding on this one.

 

However, you still remain my hero!

[mayalld]

I would be more assured if you had contributed to the other thread before responding on this one.

 

I would like to give some thought to it first