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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 15:22:52 GMT
Yes I'm intending to have a look round there on the toy trawler at some point.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 15:24:54 GMT
Yes the Thames is EA. ie not CRT. Boats that Magnetman owns that he has admitted to: Dulcinea Poubelle Some sort of widebeam And you can't realistically move the widebeam...?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 16:05:03 GMT
Something has gone rotten somewhere and it's not just the heel posts. I'm glad from a personal point of view to be shortly leaving CRT waters for more pleasant water but it's sad for people who have an interest in the future of living on the canals because it is going to get more awkward and that will probably happen quite quickly. Once change starts it moves fast. I hear there are some great places in the Swale/Medway/Crouch/Blackwater region Good Barge country up there. There are some fantastic moorings on the non-tidal Medway where a good few dutch barges live but they are very much in demand. Apart from Port Werburgh which is a bit of an expensive council estate and dries out twice a day, the rest of the Medway is all a bit remote. I suppose it depends what you are looking for. Swale - ok but the locals are a bit gene-deficient. Crouch - the old harbour at Burnham is pretty but very silted up. So much mud. Blackwater - nice to visit especially in summer but I wouldn't want to live there, except perhaps Malden.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 16:46:11 GMT
Heybridge, Battlesbridge and Faversham would be good places.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 16:57:58 GMT
So,
"The Contract and its T&C's shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the Law of England and Wales and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.
The Company will keep abreast of all legal issues and changes to legislation that may affect the performance of the Contract and will take the necessary steps to ensure that all laws (in this case the British Waterways 95 act) are adhered to".
The above of course is irrelevant anyway, because the licence is not in fact a contract, and there are only three reasons crt can revoke or refuse a licence, (none of which include someone telling a drunk crt employee on the lock at berkhamstead that they stink of beer and should step back).
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 2, 2020 17:07:30 GMT
Yes the Thames is EA. ie not CRT. Boats that Magnetman owns that he has admitted to: Dulcinea Poubelle Some sort of widebeam And you can't realistically move the widebeam...? Are you keeping files on all of us?
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 2, 2020 17:12:27 GMT
I hear there are some great places in the Swale/Medway/Crouch/Blackwater region Good Barge country up there. There are some fantastic moorings on the non-tidal Medway where a good few dutch barges live but they are very much in demand. Apart from Port Werburgh which is a bit of an expensive council estate and dries out twice a day, the rest of the Medway is all a bit remote. I suppose it depends what you are looking for. Swale - ok but the locals are a bit gene-deficient. Crouch - the old harbour at Burnham is pretty but very silted up. So much mud. Blackwater - nice to visit especially in summer but I wouldn't want to live there, except perhaps Malden. Maldon. Or, there's Whitby - park up on the Esk. Heather strewn hills, cliffs of ammonites, Aidensfield Arms at the centre of Heartbeat country, Game pie at The Feversham Arms (Church Houses), and you'll be chuffed to bits at the North York Moors Railway!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 20:31:01 GMT
I bought a boat in Whitby once. A lovely little Norwegian motorsailer. It's moored on the Thames now near Sunbury.
Whitby is a strange place. Not sure I would wish to remain there for any length of time. Perhaps a visit occasionally by boat would be okay.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 5:51:30 GMT
Also Whitby famously provided some of the material for a Mr Bram Stoker's literary aspirations.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 3, 2020 6:14:14 GMT
And Captain Cook lived there: "he moved to Whitby and became a trainee with a local shipping firm. The house where he lodged with his master is still in Whitby's Grape Lane and is now open to the public as the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. Later, he joined the Royal Navy and was rapidly promoted to a command. It is as Captain Cook that the world still knows him – the man who charted the coast of New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia and who was one of the greatest surveyors as well as one of the finest sailors and explorers of all time. He learned his craft in Whitby vessels trading to the Baltic and two of the vessels he used on his long and perilous voyages – ‘Resolution’ and ‘Endeavour’ were built in Whitby." Still, I reckon the BLM-Antifafafa-rent*a*mob would love to pull his statue down. The Battle of Whitby! One moment being eaten by Hawaiians... ...the next being pooped on by seagulls.
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