New button fitted!

New fender
New fender

Fitted this new fender to the Bow myself the other day when I pulled in for water.

I anchored the boat right out in the canal, easy enough in the winter when there are no boats around.

When it was right angles to the bank, I fitted the new one.

It needs a tightener clamp on the other side

tightener clampAnd also the rubber bushes which protect the paintwork need to be cut and fitted to the chains to stop them rubbing.

Currently, with storm Doris bearing down, it’s going to be a day of drinking tea and playing video games.

 

Milkhouse Water, Wiltshire

Continuous cruising rules

  1. Each 14 days as a continuous cruiser; you have to move location.
  2. Not only that, each 14 days that move has to represent a move to a new neighbourhood.
  3. Not only that, each move must be linear, you can move from X to Y and then to Z, but not from X to Y and back to X again.
  4. To clarify that the CRT puts it on it’s site ‘consistent with the lifestyle of one who means to ‘navigate canals and waterways’.

It’s no longer possible to live on the canals and waterways of the UK under Canal and River Trust rules, you simply have the right to navigate.

There may be ways AROUND this. But strict enforcement essentially means; if you’ve got no ‘homebase’, you’ve got to be going from A to C, (with all the little b’s inbetween).

Milkhouse Water
Milkhouse Water

Milkhouse Water

This week, my little ‘b’ is Milkhouse Water. This is essentially the next parish along from Pewsey, maybe 2 miles down the road. Continue reading “Milkhouse Water, Wiltshire”

Now in Pewsey, CRT mooring rules

Pewsey visitors moorings
Pewsey visitors moorings

Having not written a blog for a while; my status has changed slightly. I’ve moved down the road, from Devizes to somewhere called Pewsey.

It’s a small town on the Avon.

CRT rules state you have to move neighbourhood every two weeks, unless you have ‘permanent moorings’.

Currently, this applies to me.

Canal and River Trust mooring rules

The Canal and River Trust are pretty fuzzy about the meanings and measurements involved.

There is an article here about what a ‘neighbourhood’ represents for the CaRT.

The rules are pretty clear. You have to keep moving.

The advantage of it being Winter: All visitor moorings are 14 days, (unless otherwise stated).

Get into Stonehenge free

That’s it.

That’s the title. Get into Stonehenge free.

In case you didn’t know. Stonehenge is one of the oldest monolithical worship sites in the world.

No-one really knows where the stones came from, (much like Egypt). No-one really knows how the stones were erected.

All we know, is that people came here, to this hill and took on a semblance, a vision.
Through their shared vision, they drew up a plan…. to draw together some stones.
Stones unavailable in the area. Shipped stones.
Stones that had to be erected.
All drawn in a vision…. Continue reading “Get into Stonehenge free”

Flaperon from MH370; no story – 1 month on

So.

It’s all over.

The French prosecutors that found this wing were talking shit after all.

MH370 disappeared off the face of the earth, and no-one can tell you otherwise.

“We’re going to need a hotel”

Truth is, MH370 disappeared upwards…

Straight upwards.

Very fast.

Treasure Island

This whole treasure hunt, the greatest and most expensive and intensive search mankind has ever seen is a cover-up.

Malaysians, and the authorities know exactly what happened to the plane, and what the kidnapping symbolised.

So, here’s to the survivors.

I know they’re out there.

Somewhere….

**Note: As if by magic, on the very same day I published this piece of INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM about the wing, the French media made a PRESS RELEASE.
Isn’t that a co-incidence.
(You can read the press release here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wing-part-found-on-reunion-island-is-definitely-from-mh370-french-prosecutors-say-10484966.html).

Suspected MH370 flaperon
Suspected MH370 flaperon washes up on a beach on Reunion island.

I was wondering what had happened to this story…

  • First – they had found a plane part, (flaperon), ‘that could only come from the MH370‘.
  • Then – Najib Razak (PM Malaysian Government) announced; “It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris […] is indeed MH370“.
  • Now – 1 month on. It was said that the Spanish workers at the parts depot were unable to confirm the part came from the MH370 because they were ‘on vacation’.  This is the latest in a long series of excuses.

MSM are tight lipped about said flaperon, even though it was ‘conclusively confirmed‘ and ‘could only come from‘ the MH370.

Why is that? Because it’s turned out to be nothing perhaps?

I’d like to shed some more light on said ‘flaperon’, continue below. Continue reading “Flaperon from MH370; no story – 1 month on”