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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 13:46:10 GMT
I'm on a small (3 boats one in front of me and one behind) offside residential mooring scheme. On the cut which is important (to me). It would be great if CRT were to install more similar arrangements but as had been said already there is a massive lobby in favour of removal of on line moorings rather than adding more. I have even heard that people who occupy on line moorings would like there to be less of them !!
All a bit sad really but there we are I guess time schedules are important to a lot of people.
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Post by Andyberg on Dec 15, 2016 14:14:56 GMT
Perfect balance of friendliness without intrusion in the marina I'm in. The %-wise small number of liveaboards are spaced out between the holiday boats, there is no sense of being on top of each other. I'm pleasantly surprised at the boater friendly way the marina is run. All down to the quality of the northern live aboard there my friendππ
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 15, 2016 14:19:48 GMT
Perfect balance of friendliness without intrusion in the marina I'm in. The %-wise small number of liveaboards are spaced out between the holiday boats, there is no sense of being on top of each other. I'm pleasantly surprised at the boater friendly way the marina is run. All down to the quality of the northern live aboard there my friendππ I had/have the option of gem of an offside mooring in the Midlands with it's own 80ft deep plot of land but I have to agree and I'll be staying oop north instead.π
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2016 15:41:55 GMT
Which brings me to this, that lately we have been thinking what we should do when I retire in 9 years' time - or earlier if I develop a bad back and can't tie my shoelaces and take early sick retirement Why would we live here where we are? A valid idea is to buy a longer narrowboat and live on that for, say, 10 years. We would be more or less continuously cruising then, parking up when we feel like stopping longer than 14 days. There's much more of interest in Britain than boring old Finland. Eventually we could move back to an apartment we had bought and had been renting (someone has to top up our pensions, har har!) in Finland, and spend our final years driving round Scandinavia in a mobile home vehicle, although I could be too old to drive then. We may, thus, be on the canals for much longer than we had originally anticipated. That should piss a lot of people off
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2016 15:47:25 GMT
Wots friendly about buying cheaper coal+gas from another source and some marinas moaning cus you don't buy it from them. than threaten to throw you out Err.... we need specific details, can you provide them? His name was: Her name was: Where they met: What he said to her: What she said to him: What they did: And the consequences were: (cold porridge for breakfast)
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2016 15:57:57 GMT
Looks like a quiet day on Thunderboat so I shall post this here whether you like it or not Thought I'd take a photo from the bridge at Tokola on my way back to Kannus after my morning snooze at home, it's the Lestijoki river which flows to Himanka. And then a shot coming back from Eskola to Kannus so you can see it's a bit snowy here. Also some snowmen stamps! goo.gl/photos/Egfqymk39K1y98Dq9
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Post by kris on Dec 15, 2016 18:01:02 GMT
Perfect balance of friendliness without intrusion in the marina I'm in. The %-wise small number of liveaboards are spaced out between the holiday boats, there is no sense of being on top of each other. I'm pleasantly surprised at the boater friendly way the marina is run. whats the view like out of your windows, have you got a boat either side?
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 15, 2016 18:54:17 GMT
Perfect balance of friendliness without intrusion in the marina I'm in. The %-wise small number of liveaboards are spaced out between the holiday boats, there is no sense of being on top of each other. I'm pleasantly surprised at the boater friendly way the marina is run. whats the view like out of your windows, have you got a boat either side? Narrowboat one side, shorter grp on the other. There's never anyone on either unless they're going out. I take your point but it suits me until spring. Easy life, I was due a rest.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2016 19:11:18 GMT
Would you like some IWA stickers for your windows to improve the view? We have two.
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Post by kris on Dec 15, 2016 19:17:28 GMT
Would you like some IWA stickers for your windows to improve the view? We have two. what happened to the thunderboat window stickers? Traitor.
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 15, 2016 19:21:08 GMT
I'm the sort of chap that annoys people by getting away with murder. There are many ways to present the exact same life outwardly. For instance, when I arrive or accidentally overstay in my shiney scumbled boat, quietly get a bit pissed or stoned, I predict nobody much will notice and they'll be pleasant about it. I'll pretend to be posh, it's easy. Or, I could have a Mohican or dreads, a dog on a string, insist on smoking skunk in your face and paint the boat with red oxide, refuse to tick the meaningless tick box of servitude. I'd be like citizen smith, proclaiming my distaste and separateness from society or whatever, but I don't feel the need when I can behave worse in disguise. If needs be.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 20:13:55 GMT
I wonder how many boaters are in marinas due to carts or bw bullying tactics.bet there'd be non if ppl wasn't bullied
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 15, 2016 20:28:10 GMT
I wonder how many boaters are in marinas due to carts bullying tactics.bet there'd be non if ppl wasn't bullied Hmmm well in the days before CRT our marina was always chockablock with a long waiting list. Now there are quite a few vacancies. So that doesn't really fit with your theory.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2016 20:30:35 GMT
I really don't see what's wrong with marinas, so long as those who wish to remain parked on the Cut can do so. Marinas are businesses, and if they are run properly and decently then, yes, the owners deserve to make a living out of them. Being forced by CRT into marinas so they can get their cut of the dosh is not right, although, as has probably been pointed out a zillion times, it is a bit wearying to be boating and come across yet another mile-long ribbon of parked up boats and have to worry about whether you're going slow enough. Marinas could charge less - the current 'average' of 1800 Pounds/year just so's your boat can sit on a bit of water seems excessive, but then perhaps the marinas have to pay a lease to the landowner who is probably someone like Prince Charles who is squeezing their necks.
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Post by Andyberg on Dec 15, 2016 20:34:03 GMT
I wonder how many boaters are in marinas due to carts bullying tactics.bet there'd be non if ppl wasn't bullied I lived on a BW towpath mooring in my widebeam for 3 years and loved it but with my narrowboat, I've moved onto a marina for ease having a full time job! I do move up the branch to Burscough from march to October tho when the sun shines!
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