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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2024 15:43:09 GMT
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Post by Jim on Feb 18, 2024 17:03:22 GMT
Obviously he needs a mooring, but that can then be claimed against tax. It doesn't make business sense otherwise. A mobile coffee boat or similar stands a good chance of making a success as a Roving Trader, a bike repair shop, no.
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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2024 17:05:48 GMT
Obviously he needs a mooring, but that can then be claimed against tax. It doesn't make business sense otherwise. A mobile coffee boat or similar stands a good chance of making a success as a Roving Trader, a bike repair shop, no. It does sound like he has been pushing his luck.
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Post by Jim on Feb 18, 2024 17:21:17 GMT
Purely from a business standpoint it doesn't stack up. Not as a ccer anyway. Maybe a mooring in between his best pitches, so he can come and go. 14 days here, 14 there, reset every time you pass home mooring. That would work. Are there many moorings on the KnA in the area he wants to be?
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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2024 17:43:26 GMT
Purely from a business standpoint it doesn't stack up. Not as a ccer anyway. Maybe a mooring in between his best pitches, so he can come and go. 14 days here, 14 there, reset every time you pass home mooring. That would work. Are there many moorings on the KnA in the area he wants to be? The business model wouldn’t stack up if he could get a mooring in Bradford upon Avon. It would be too exspensive and add too much to his costs. It’s a very sort after area to stay hence all the overstayers. So he’s probably got to rethink his whole business idea.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 18, 2024 17:55:43 GMT
Purely from a business standpoint it doesn't stack up. Not as a ccer anyway. Maybe a mooring in between his best pitches, so he can come and go. 14 days here, 14 there, reset every time you pass home mooring. That would work. Are there many moorings on the KnA in the area he wants to be? The business model wouldn’t stack up if he could get a mooring in Bradford upon Avon. It would be too exspensive and add too much to his costs. It’s a very sort after area to stay hence all the overstayers. So he’s probably got to rethink his whole business idea. If he has sufficient trade, I don't see why a mooring would be unaffordable. A bicycle repair shop will be paying rent, business rates, water bill, gas and electricity standing charges etc etc etc. I doubt a mooring would cost anything near as much and being in a static location would make his business more successful if the customers always know where to find him. He's on a 6-month licence so he's obviously crossed swords with CRT before.
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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2024 18:01:53 GMT
The business model wouldn’t stack up if he could get a mooring in Bradford upon Avon. It would be too exspensive and add too much to his costs. It’s a very sort after area to stay hence all the overstayers. So he’s probably got to rethink his whole business idea. If he has sufficient trade, I don't see why a mooring would be unaffordable. A bicycle repair shop will be paying rent, business rates, water bill, gas and electricity standing charges etc etc etc. I doubt a mooring would cost anything near as much and being in a static location would make his business more successful if the customers always know where to find him. He's on a 6-month licence so he's obviously crossed swords with CRT before. Yes he has obviously been swinging the lead. The moorings whilst not as much as in London are exspensive near Barth. Yes his business might support this, but in my experience most of these roving canal traders are only earning pocket money and not really a living wage. I think I met one guy earning decent money. His business has got more of a chance, if it was stationary. Anyway it’s up to him.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Feb 18, 2024 18:06:24 GMT
Given that vacuous arsewipes such as kris and jim are far too stupid to make informed, factual comments on yet one more instance of C&RT's corrupt dishonest senior management and its crooked dishonest lawyers putting their well rehearsed boat theiving scam into practice against one more carefully selected victim, . . far better that they, kris and jim, and anyone else of the same persuasion, keep their mouths shut altogether, . . and their ill-considered, unhelpful, uninformed opinions to themselves.
How many times does it need repeating before this simple truth finally dawns on the gullible and the terminally stupid, . . the Canal & River Trust DO NOT have ANY powers, statutory or otherwise, to seize, confiscate, or otherwise deprive people of their boats, their homes, or their possessions and property. Nor does the Canal & River Trust have the authority or powers to 'evict' anyone from their boat or home, or anyone's boat from any inland waterway under its control.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 18, 2024 18:08:53 GMT
I think fair play to the bloke, he's trying to earn a crust and doing what's necessary to maximise trade, he's far more deserving than the George Ward/ Tony Dunkley freeloading parasite type of boater, but if CRT were to say that anyone running a boat-based business was exempt from the requirements to be on a bona fide journey then I could set up a business selling, say, guitar strings and it wouldn't matter if I sold less than half-a-dozen a year.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 18, 2024 18:12:22 GMT
How many times does it need repeating before this simple truth finally dawns on the gullible and the terminally stupid, . . the Canal & River Trust DO NOT have ANY powers, statutory or otherwise, to seize, confiscate, or otherwise deprive people of their boats, their homes, or their possessions and property. So how come they seized yours then?
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Post by on Feb 18, 2024 18:20:49 GMT
DNE
anyway the K&A is fucked has been for a long time so one imagines there general idea is to just not worry about 'movement patterns' and see how long one can get away with it for. There are some precedents.
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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2024 18:21:18 GMT
How many times does it need repeating before this simple truth finally dawns on the gullible and the terminally stupid, . . the Canal & River Trust DO NOT have ANY powers, statutory or otherwise, to seize, confiscate, or otherwise deprive people of their boats, their homes, or their possessions and property. So how come they seized yours then? You wait any day now Tony is going to put his cunning plan into practice. When he springs his trap crt will learn they’ve been unwitting pawns in a very long game.🙃
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Post by on Feb 18, 2024 18:39:59 GMT
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 18, 2024 20:25:49 GMT
So how come they seized yours then? You wait any day now Tony is going to put his cunning plan into practice. When he springs his trap crt will learn they’ve been unwitting pawns in a very long game.🙃 It will be four years ago this year that Halcyon Daze was towed away. Surely even the most dim-witted of Thunderboaters (i.e. Tony Dunkley) must realise that it was "Checkmate" a long time ago? I genuinely tried to help the bloke. I gave him advice which, had he listened and followed it, would have meant that he still had his boat today. It's not my fault that he chose instead to launch a campaign of unprovoked personal attacks against me simply because I didn't support his bizarre and self-destructive vendetta against CRT. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Post by kris on Feb 18, 2024 20:34:24 GMT
Yes he’s a peculiar chap. He seems to have taken exception to me because I wouldn’t ground my home on a sandbank, on his orders. Very strange behaviour, to demand other people do what you want.
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