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Post by naughtyfox on May 24, 2018 8:26:55 GMT
Just looked up the new prices - we paid £669 last year, now the 2018-2019 new fee is £718 - for a 40-footer (39-foot but with the bumper-thingies on). That's 7.3% higher.
And I see the table of fees is in METRES ONLY - the FEET have vanished.
Yep, that's £49 extra.
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Post by peterboat on May 24, 2018 9:16:10 GMT
The money for the rebranding has to come from somewhere.........................
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Post by kris on May 24, 2018 9:28:13 GMT
Your really going to have to stop giving the iwa £38 a year now.
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Post by Jim on May 24, 2018 9:40:04 GMT
Not had a reminder about my renewal, but aware it's due. Checked online, it is due, £635 with PPD. Have set up auto renewal to foil their evil plan of not letting me know in time to get PPD.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 10:02:14 GMT
Just looked up the new prices - we paid £669 last year, not the fee is £718 - for a 40-footer (39-foot but with the bumper-thingies on). That's 7.3% higher. And I see the table of fees is in METRES ONLY - the FEET have vanished. Yep, that's £49 extra. will have to reduce boat by 7.4% each year, how many fenders do you have foxy?
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 24, 2018 17:23:14 GMT
Just looked up the new prices - we paid £669 last year, now the 2018-2019 new fee is £718 - for a 40-footer (39-foot but with the bumper-thingies on). Take your fenders off on the day you apply for the licence. Curiously, although I always describe my boat as 42', according to the boat builder (Peter Nicholls) its exact length is 41' 11 and 15/16ths". It lengthens slightly on hot days and becomes over 42' so I renew my licence in February.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 17:40:23 GMT
Your really going to have to stop giving the iwa £38 a year now. naughtyfox would only be £11 poorer then. You can't do much about CART jacking the price up, you can do something about frittering away your hard earned on a lost cause 👍🚢🍻
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Post by naughtyfox on May 24, 2018 18:07:59 GMT
I still don't understand why everyone here hates the IWA. I get the idea they tried to get into bed with CRT but got pushed out. I wouldn't mind going to an IWA meeting and asking "Why do so many people hate you?" I do like their magazine that they post to us, and I like their Christmas cards and I still have an image that they promote the waterways in a good light and encourage volunteers to keep the canals in good order and have a go at restoring disused canals. I'm getting the idea that the meetings are held in homes for the retired and that they address each other as 'Commander' and 'Lieutenant-Brigadier Tufton-Smythe', but for now I am happily mostly ignorant of their crimes. "Once I caught a fish it was this big"
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Post by JohnV on May 24, 2018 18:14:58 GMT
Just looked up the new prices - we paid £669 last year, now the 2018-2019 new fee is £718 - for a 40-footer (39-foot but with the bumper-thingies on). Take your fenders off on the day you apply for the licence. Curiously, although I always describe my boat as 42', according to the boat builder (Peter Nicholls) its exact length is 41' 11 and 15/16ths". It lengthens slightly on hot days and becomes over 42' so I renew my licence in February. Sabina H was described a 66' 5" in previous documents but when I was rebuilding her 20 years ago we removed her "bumkin" which shortened her by quite a few inches and possibly an inch or two was lost rebuilding the bow. In drydock last summer I very carefully measured her and found she now comes in as 65' 7"
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 18:21:20 GMT
I still don't understand why everyone here hates the IWA. I get the idea they tried to get into bed with CRT but got pushed out. I wouldn't mind going to an IWA meeting and asking "Why do so many people hate you?" I do like their magazine that they post to us, and I like their Christmas cards and I still have an image that they promote the waterways in a good light and encourage volunteers to keep the canals in good order and have a go at restoring disused canals. I'm getting the idea that the meetings are held in homes for the retired and that they address each other as 'Commander' and 'Lieutenant-Brigadier Tufton-Smythe', but for now I am happily mostly ignorant of their crimes. Those Christmas cards have a hidden agenda, mostly aimed at live aboard boaters and wide beam owner's. We are not the former but definitely the later. Get some Christmas cards from the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research, the RNLI, a charity dear to my heart :- shop.headway.org.uk/shop/christmas/cards/c-24/c-88Mencap,Great Ormond Street Hospital any number of animal rehoming or rescue centres, in fact anywhere but the bloody IWA!
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Post by JohnV on May 24, 2018 18:33:56 GMT
I still don't understand why everyone here hates the IWA. I don't hate the IWA per se ..... There is a lot of fantastic work done by many sub groups, the Waterway Recovery Group to name one. My beef is with the self opinionated, stuffed shirt, narrowminded, shiny, weekend narrowboaters who have managed increasingly for many years to occupy the top positions and drive the association forward nationally in the direction that they wish to go
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 18:38:38 GMT
I still don't understand why everyone here hates the IWA. I don't hate the IWA per se ..... There is a lot of fantastic work done by many sub groups, the Waterway Recovery Group to name one. My beef is with the self opinionated, stuffed shirt, narrowminded, shiny, weekend narrowboaters who have managed increasingly for many years to occupy the top positions and drive the association forward nationally in the direction that they wish to go See here for regional usefulness. www.project-hereward.org/See CART for national ineptness.
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Post by Andyberg on May 24, 2018 21:52:59 GMT
I still don't understand why everyone here hates the IWA. ; If all the ladies in the IWA had ass's like her in the blue dress, Id be more than happy to pay £38 to be part of their weekend crew!👍
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Post by loafer on May 24, 2018 22:55:33 GMT
Just looked up the new prices - we paid £669 last year, now the 2018-2019 new fee is £718 - for a 40-footer (39-foot but with the bumper-thingies on). Take your fenders off on the day you apply for the licence. Curiously, although I always describe my boat as 42', according to the boat builder (Peter Nicholls) its exact length is 41' 11 and 15/16ths". It lengthens slightly on hot days and becomes over 42' so I renew my licence in February. That is the funniest thing I've read on here in ages. Well done, Mr Stabby!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2018 7:16:23 GMT
Just won a mooring that is described on the crt site as 57'4", i have no idea of the exact size of my boat apart from the 57' bit... hope it fits!
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