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    Ratchet Crimping Tools, £2

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    For average DIY use I have had a cheap ratchet crimper that I have used for years and I cant fault them, I have often found the cheaper option has usually more than suited my needs.  

    If I needed a tool I intended to use for commercial purposes or more often than one off jobs I would probably spend more money on it.  

    Is The BA Prepared?

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    When there are 1000s upon 1000s of boat owners providing a very large part of their yearly cash flow they can carry on wasting as much as they like on whatever whim takes the fancy.

    If i felt it was being spent wisely they might have my support.

    Is The BA Prepared?

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    Its become clear to me over the last few years that most people (on this forum at least) seem quite happy for the Toll to keep going up at the levels it has year on year.  
     

    Eventually the tipping point for them may be reached and they may come to the realisation a small number of us already have, we are being taken for a ride. 
     

    The BA seem to find it very easy to make ends meet and im sure I would too if I was spending other peoples money at the rate set by themselves! 
     

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    Is The BA Prepared?

    in Broads Chat

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    120k for a new Toll computer system and its urgent......whats wrong with the current system? Impossible to fix or cant/wont make do?  Is it really needed now? 

    Nevermind its only a tenner each for private owners.  What whim will we be paying for next year I wonder. 

    This just goes on and on,  its about time Tolls are frozen for say at least 10 years and the BA learn how to work within a tighter budget.  Rather than splashing out on expensive equipment and laying out 35k a year for what is basically an office clerk to chase untolled boats.

    Im with Griff.  It is seriously Infuriating.  

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    Waveney Pegasus - The Strangest Design Ever?

    in Hire Boat Discussion

    Posted

    Our last boat was wired in such a way that only the sockets worked with the inverter.  The immersion and battery charger only operated when on shore power via a double pole manual changeover switch inverter/off/shore

    As Cal says it all depends how its been wired up.  Inverter/chargers are good but with seperate units one going faulty wont affect the other.  I used Victron equipment and had a stand alone Inverter and 2 separate battery chargers one for 12v and one for the 24v system.

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    Boat Tolls 2021

    in Speakers' Corner:

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    Despite whats going on in the world this is still an important subject that needs to be carefully scrutinised. 

    Some members might have very deep pockets while others might not.  
     

    Tolls have risen sharply over the last 10 years.  This might be perfectly justified or it might just be down to mismanagement of finances.  I believe the latter. 
     

    Covid is not an excuse to give the BA carte blanche in increasing Tolls even further.  

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    Maintenance Of Bow Thruster & Manoeuvrability

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    Electric thrusters usually have a safety cut out to protect the motor.  The model on our old boat gave you about 45 seconds of continuous use (according to the manual) then it would shut off for a period of time before it could be used again.  Thrusters are best used in short bursts as we know.  Wind or current could warrant slightly longer use but in much more than a gentle breeze most thrusters used on broads boats probably wont be much help anyway.   
     

    Other than cleaning the propellor at lift outs the unit required zero maintenance in 8 years of ownership, according to the manual it was a maintenance free sealed unit. 

    A Warm Welcome...maybe

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    I will never understand people who want a property by a river clearly populated with many many boats then complain about them.  At least let folk get moored up before arms start getting thrown in the air, 5 minutes might seem a long time but not everyone is an expert and rhond anchors are a pain to get right if your not used to using them.

    Its as bad as those who buy property near an airport then start moaning about the planes! 

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    Mooring Fees

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    3 hours ago, FreedomBoatingHols said:

    Comments like this really irritate me.

    This is a free-market-economy and in that we have a housing issue where there is a dearth of social housing created in no small part by the Right To Buy and other government policy that directly affected housing stock. We have many private landlords who were encouraged to become so by governments and pension planners who were saying for years that the state pensions were not going to be sufficient to look after us when we retired.  We had a failing private pension system too and plenty of crooks like Robert Maxwell (who's Daughter has just been finally arrested by the FBI) who plundered pension funds for their own benefit. 

    We also had housing market conditions that left people in situations that would see them lose if they bought at the top of the market and subsequently sold at the bottom which also created a raft of private landlords. 

    There seems to be a big misconception over the average private landlord. There are many who are professional landlords who make their whole living off the profit between the rent paid and the mortgage repayments. There are many more who have just a few properties to act as their pension planning, as I say, encouraged to do so through specific conditions and policy of the past. Many of these people have been smacked squarely in the privates by the more recent shift in tax relief policy too which favours the very big landlords rather than those just getting by with a pension plan that might now be costing them money rather than accumulating a pension pot. 

    What are we supposed to do? Should we look merely to break even and then accept that we CAN'T afford to fix the boiler so our tenant can go cold? Or should we regularly review the rents so that we have the money to get a plumber in when the toilet won't flush or should we just pay for that out of our own funds? 

    There is a one heck of a realisation that some people need to arrive 

    I was totally with you on the private moorings and fees but Im never ever going to be sympathetic to the plight of the private landlord. 
     

    My last landlord may not have increased my rent in the 5 years I lived there but other than the yearly boiler service (which was 15 years old and kettled horrendously every day we were there) he didnt spend 1 penny on the place either. 
     

    When we moved out the new tenant is paying about 27% more per month than we were.  Did he reimburse me for all the decorating? the new stair and landing carpet, the umpteen times I had repaired toilets, dripping taps, replaced toilet seats even repaired dodgy plumbing for him....NO!  (But i knew there was no point even asking) 

    I bet he was even disappointed to find I hadn't had his knackered old boiler replaced in my 5 years paying for his pension pot and they expect sympathy too?!


     

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    Mooring Fees

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    7 hours ago, psychicsurveyor said:

    People may think they are being charged too much, it doesn't mean they are.

    My tenants probably moan when I put up their rents but my costs rise each year as well. If they want a safe and sound property to live in they will pay or they can move out. The fact all my tenants stay for years tells me I am doing it the right way.

    I am a business not a charity, therefore I will endeavor to make a profit, that is the way of the world we live in.

    If I don't make a profit I would sell the properties and they would have to find somewhere else to live, it is the same with moorings.

    There is every chance your Tenants yearly income remains the same yet they become poorer each year through you putting their rent up.  They may well have every right to moan. 

    This thread is beginning to leave a sour taste. 

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    Mooring Fees

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    If marinas charged for width rather than length on stern moorings a 12ft width boat would be around £165 per foot depending on where it is!  

    Some boats are wider in the middle than the stern.....which measurement do they charge for?  
     

    Its the way it is, always has been, always will be

    Swimming

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    The week before last we saw a group of youths jumping in at Oulton Dyke where the matting is installed against the bank just before the properties begin when travelling in to the Broad.  

    A few times recently I have seen swimmers in the Broad itself and they are quite difficult to spot from a small boat but they were keeping to the margins.  
     

    If i were swimming I would make myself as visible as possible, bright coloured hat and suit, tow a bright float and preferably have someone in a kayak with me.  I think a swimmer being struck by a boat could happen very easily if the right circumstances came together.  I dont think I could cope with accidentally running someone over because I genuinely didnt see they were there. 

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