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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 20:57:05 GMT
I thought the shower was due later on about 1am.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 21:31:43 GMT
Enjoying an amazing light show and distant thunder now ... no rain and still razzing hot.
Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 12, 2020 7:17:04 GMT
72hr mooring. Hmm Discuss. And let's not get onto the entitled idiot problem Actually, the hours thing is a bit misleading. On a 48 hour mooring, all this means is that you can only be spotted on the mooring three times by the CRT data logger before there is an issue. Obviously if you know what time he makes his rounds, and time your arrival and departure accordingly then you can stay for almost four days with impunity, At least 3 boats permanently moored on a half mile stretch of the Macc completely disappeared from the system for at least a year, simply by being aware of the movements of the spotter bods.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 7:31:34 GMT
It's the randomness of the mooring restrictions I find idiotic ... we usually moor through bridge 104 (Stone side) of the T&M on piling ... fields either side with no homes within 100 yards. Yesterday I moored Stoke side of the same bridge as there was a handy tree for much needed shade, opposite the Wedgwood factory, so only a couple of hundred yards and a bridge separating the two moorings ... and it's a 24 hour restricted mooring ! No logic to it ... I would have guessed if asked that the factory mooring would have been the unrestricted one. Anyway I tend to treat these type of restrictions fluidly so I'll not worry about it too much Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 12, 2020 8:04:21 GMT
The logic seems pretty obvious to me, it’s so people can stop for a visit to the factory/museum without the place being cluttered up with people who don’t like boating.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:10:01 GMT
The logic seems pretty obvious to me, it’s so people can stop for a visit to the factory/museum without the place being cluttered up with people who don’t like boating. How about this one then on the T&M...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:14:36 GMT
Proper black wood post with the usual CRT little plastic sign.
The plastic tub moored behind looked ot have been there some time, usual blue rope tied around the Armco and bouncing around, nothing of value left inside, moor than likely been torched by now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:23:46 GMT
Yes I removed my post as looked at your photos.
Does seem to be a proper one.
Is it because it is a popular mooring and they want some "turnover" rather than 14th day "oh god we have to move the bloody boat again" types hogging it.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 12, 2020 8:35:11 GMT
The logic seems pretty obvious to me, it’s so people can stop for a visit to the factory/museum without the place being cluttered up with people who don’t like boating. How about this one then on the T&M... If it’s the one I’m thinking of, isn’t it because someone bothered to put in a stretch of rings? No point in providing “mooring facilities” ie mooring rings, if some CMers just come and clutter it up. The general idea is that such places provide a welcome place to stop for lunch or overnight. Not for the establishment of a linear council estate. If it isn’t the place I’m thinking of (no rings) then there will be other reasons such as it’s been dredged etc. With 99% of the canal having no mooring restrictions except the 14 day generic one, I don’t really see why the 1% of restricted mooring causes resentment.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 12, 2020 8:35:42 GMT
It's the randomness of the mooring restrictions I find idiotic ... we usually moor through bridge 104 (Stone side) of the T&M on piling ... fields either side with no homes within 100 yards. Yesterday I moored Stoke side of the same bridge as there was a handy tree for much needed shade, opposite the Wedgwood factory, so only a couple of hundred yards and a bridge separating the two moorings ... and it's a 24 hour restricted mooring ! No logic to it ... I would have guessed if asked that the factory mooring would have been the unrestricted one. Anyway I tend to treat these type of restrictions fluidly so I'll not worry about it too much Rog Time restricted visitor moorings tend not to be 'policed' for compliance, other than by the occasional do gooder.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:43:05 GMT
There are hundreds of yards of unrestricted moorings on piling for visits to Wedgwood ... why select two boats lengths for any restrictions other than the legal 14 day ones ... equally if the rationale is the Wedgwood site visitors, why not make them all 24 hours.
Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 12, 2020 8:48:16 GMT
There are hundreds of yards of unrestricted moorings on piling for visits to Wedgwood ... why select two boats lengths for any restrictions other than the legal 14 day ones ... equally if the rationale is the Wedgwood site visitors, why not make them all 24 hours. Rog Because the 14 day moorings are often full of CMers, and not many people want to visit a boring China / pottery factory. Hence reserve a couple of mooring spaces for short term visits to the factory. I don’t understand why you find this concept unreasonable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:51:43 GMT
How about this one then on the T&M... If it’s the one I’m thinking of, isn’t it because someone bothered to put in a stretch of rings? No point in providing “mooring facilities” ie mooring rings, if some CMers just come and clutter it up. The general idea is that such places provide a welcome place to stop for lunch or overnight. Not for the establishment of a linear council estate. If it isn’t the place I’m thinking of (no rings) then there will be other reasons such as it’s been dredged etc. With 99% of the canal having no mooring restrictions except the 14 day generic one, I don’t really see why the 1% of restricted mooring causes resentment. Yes there are rings.. Still daft in my mind.
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Post by peterboat on Aug 12, 2020 9:00:29 GMT
A proper thunder and lightning show here at 0300 rain was bouncing as high as the boat!! lasted half an hour spectacular to say the least. The upside of this is the allotment wont need watering today just the triffids in the greenhouses.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 9:00:59 GMT
There are hundreds of yards of unrestricted moorings on piling for visits to Wedgwood ... why select two boats lengths for any restrictions other than the legal 14 day ones ... equally if the rationale is the Wedgwood site visitors, why not make them all 24 hours. Rog Because the 14 day moorings are often full of CMers, and not many people want to visit a boring China / pottery factory. Hence reserve a couple of mooring spaces for short term visits to the factory. I don’t understand why you find this concept unreasonable. Because the all new signage, rings, designer, planner and work force employed to implement unnecessary, idiotic, and illegal restrictions doesn't come free . "I don't understand why you find this concept unreasonable" Rog
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