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Mind you since most of Star City seems to be tea total these days we haven't ventured out tonight either!

So you weren't tempted to go 'genting' at the 'genting' club then?

 

(Isn't there another thread about nouns being turned into verbs? 'Verbing' perhaps?)

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So you weren't tempted to go 'genting' at the 'genting' club then?

 

(Isn't there another thread about nouns being turned into verbs? 'Verbing' perhaps?)

No, we discussed it and decided neither of us could face a casino. Anyway with a name like "Genting" (a place in Muslim Malaysia) chances are you'd just get fruit cocktails!

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Although I've no idea how long the other boats have been here for. Normally one arrives and its deserted, which is how it should be, for this is a local mooring for local people....

 

Ah, the local folk from Aberdeen!

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The cuckoo wharf one is at the Salford Jn end of the wharf but as mentioned there are sometimes workboats there and further towards Aston. So worst case is that you have to breast up to one of them.

 

Wrong way round. Coming from Salford Junction the first mooring is a residential, unoccupied in November and up for rent. Then you have the service point followed by 2 more residential berths. The next bit, behind the offices, are 14 day visitor moorings. Except there is an ambiguous sign at the far end stating that it is a CRT operational mooring, free to use for upto 14 days if vacant at 6pm. There is often a mud hopper moored beyond this which is easy to breast up to.

 

There used to be an on site security guard at night but he has now gone so the site is now no more secure than any towpath mooring.

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When does Crufts finish? I've got to take Jeff to the airport (from Tamworth, via M42) on Sunday evening, myself to the airport on Monday evening. I'd better check.

Would check overnight motorway exit closures as well. Took my sister from West Bromwich a couple of weeks ago and the M42 airport exit was closed (can't remember the number) and had to carry on to Coventry. Knew I should have stuck with the A45 :-)

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Would check overnight motorway exit closures as well. Took my sister from West Bromwich a couple of weeks ago and the M42 airport exit was closed (can't remember the number) and had to carry on to Coventry. Knew I should have stuck with the A45 :-)

Thanks, think I'll take the A446 route which is probably safer!

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Crufts finishes tonight but folk will be leaving from about lunch time today. When we moored at Star City we had a super Indian meal in a restaurant which was full of Indian families eating. A good sign we thought. The menu was not the "run of the mill" which you find in most India restaurants but we really enjoyed it.

 

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Crufts finishes tonight but folk will be leaving from about lunch time today. When we moored at Star City we had a super Indian meal in a restaurant which was full of Indian families eating. A good sign we thought. The menu was not the "run of the mill" which you find in most India restaurants but we really enjoyed it.

 

haggis

We ate there a couple of years ago. But no booze!

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You shouldn't have to stay on the service point as, theoretically, there are 14 day visitor moorings there although the signage is a bit ambiguous.

 

When we were there in November the visitor mooring space seemed to be taken by CRT boats but there was an empty residential mooring so we stayed on that. The mooring is still unsold so the space should still be there.

I must admit I try to work out what the signage means every time we pass

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I must admit I try to work out what the signage means every time we pass

 

We were moored there a few years ago when the enforcement officer, new to the job, cake and said we shouldn't be moored there. We pointed out the sign and he couldn't understand it either. He took photos of the sign but it's still there, just with CRT stickers over the old BW ones.

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It really -looks like- a nice mooring, spaghetti junction and its environs are within sight, but we couldn't here it. If you look on GoogleEarth it looks most unpleasant, but I'd rather stop there than at Cukoo wharf which has always been full when we passed. Having just passed through the Grotty Garrison locks we had ample time to move beyond Minworth - which was quiet and in t'countryside...

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They are of course allowed 2 weeks at this time of year, which as I mentioned earlier I think is a mistake by CRT.

I agree (and raised this very point around Christmas). Nice idea in principle, but a blanket implementation leads to some of the really useful 24 or 48 hour "lily pads" being blocked off. Cadbury World is another example (apologies if anyone is quite rightly on there for 14 days at the moment) of a place where the otherwise limited stay secure moorings are the only safe option if you wish to take the factory tour. It needs a bit more thinking about and clear by CRT to keep just a few prime places more accessible in winter imho.

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The mooring arrangements at Cuckoo Wharf have always been confusing to me. CRT mooring their boats there doesn't help at all.

 

As a side point. If a CRT workboat/tug/mud hopper overstays on a VM does it risk not having its licence renewed?

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The mooring arrangements at Cuckoo Wharf have always been confusing to me. CRT mooring their boats there doesn't help at all.

 

As a side point. If a CRT workboat/tug/mud hopper overstays on a VM does it risk not having its licence renewed?

Don't believe workboats have licences any more so they are safe!
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We were the end boat that night (blue boat loads of wood on the roof) the other 2 were still there 2 weeks later when we came back on our return journey. Got talking to one of the boat owners who seems to have permission to stay as he has terminal throat cancer and is not fit enough to move his boat. He has been befriended by a group of locals (taxi drivers, shop owners) who help him out and spend time with him playing monopoly and such forth. He told me he was leaving his boat to them as a thankyou for the time they had looked after him. Human nature never ceases to amaze me.

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Anyway know about the safety of leaving cars overnight in Star City? Any experiences?

 

Looked fairly quiet when I was last there prior to BCN, but thought I'd ask.

 

I think we have had crew do that during the BCN challenge

 

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Anyway know about the safety of leaving cars overnight in Star City? Any experiences?

 

Looked fairly quiet when I was last there prior to BCN, but thought I'd ask.

Left my car there this year and apart from a pair of pants discarded on the roof everything was fine.

Also one of my crew left their car there last year and again no problems

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Anyway know about the safety of leaving cars overnight in Star City? Any experiences?

 

Looked fairly quiet when I was last there prior to BCN, but thought I'd ask.

I would have thought the biggest risk would be getting it clamped, if they like most of these private car parks have a time limit, so that is something to check.

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