It'll depend on how much a gallon of petrol is in your area, plus £1 for a cigarette lighter. If the legalities concern you, add another £20 to pay a local scroat to torch it while you're suitably alibied; actually, that'll only be £19 more... He'll have a fag lighter of his own.
I actually emphasized that the Clean Air regulations only applied in SOME places, and although I didn't mention it, the exact terms depend on local implementation, as others have pointed out. But such regulations are widespread, even in farming districts. Burning straw after harvest was banned many years ago.There are lots of places in the UK where stoves, open fires are used daily with all sorts of wood being burned. Folks are banging on as if I smokeless regulations are universally applied. However, I was surprised to learn that this type of combustion is the largest contributor to air pollution producing high concentrations of particulates. Recent articles in the media also linked the contribution of stoves, fires in homes to asthma and diabetes, costing about £54million in health costs.
The OP should just pay one of the companies to take the boat away and let them deal with it, job done, easiest solution, least hassle, least risk and probably lowest total cost in the end.
Maybe book a bulky waste uplift from the council and leave it on the pavement for them to collect.
Alas, I don't think that's true at all. Only a really wilfully daft potential buyer thinks "wow, it's free!". An owner presenting a boat as free of charge, speaks volumes for the savings he'll make once it has gone.
Possibly as it's a wooden boat, the OP might find interest from the community of wooden boat enthusiasts for whom actual use seems only an adjunct to the fun they can have restoring and repairing.
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Not completely true, the owners financial circumstances may have dramatically changed requiring him to "cut his losses" and get rid of an immediate unfindable expense such as mooring / berthing fees. It happens.Alas, I don't think that's true at all. Only a really wilfully daft potential buyer thinks "wow, it's free!". An owner presenting a boat as free of charge, speaks volumes for the savings he'll make once it has gone.
The fact that it cannot be shifted as an asset with intrinsic value that is worth haggling over, suggests either that:
As usual, it's the fault of the marinas and berth owners. If fees for moorings and berths (and storage ashore) weren't so monstrous, owners could wait and wait for an interested party; and if berths were reasonably priced, there would be much more interest in old, 'essentially sound' boats that at present, defy any economic logic as things that would be nice to own.
- the boat has reached such a level of disrepair or overdue refit that whoever takes charge of her, must inescapably stump up a large sum (and/or many long, arduous weekends) before the vessel is useable; or
- (as I found with my Achilles 24, which definitely was perfectly useable) this marque, style or vintage of vessel, unless in competitive racing form, is essentially without enough of an interested following to be sure of anyone really wanting her at any price.
Possibly as it's a wooden boat, the OP might find interest from the community of wooden boat enthusiasts for whom actual use seems only an adjunct to the fun they can have restoring and repairing.
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Happy story, but probably only practical because (I assume) you moved to where the berthing was cheap. Please tell me you didn't pay £800 to move the boat five hours from where you live, to escape Chichester mooring rates.
How different is the cost up there?
I believe the Jocks can still burn their straw and stubble; in England and Wales, farmers need to rely upon fortuitously timed lightning strikes to ignite them.
It's never dry enough to burn anything outside in Scotland.
Happy story, but probably only practical because (I assume) you moved to where the berthing was cheap. Please tell me you didn't pay £800 to move the boat five hours from where you live, to escape Chichester mooring rates.
Well, when they burned the fields, in East Anglia we suffered weeks with ash in the air and fogs with a visibility of a car length, if that, caused by nucleation on smoke particles. Since it was banned, no ash and no fogs! And the difference is absolutely night and day
I can believe it, many years ago I was at a wedding down that way which was seriously disrupted by similar... despite the reception barbecue moving indoors, the bride's dress was grey by the end.
Alas, I don't think that's true at all. Only a really wilfully daft potential buyer thinks "wow, it's free!". An owner presenting a boat as free of charge, speaks volumes for the savings he'll make once it has gone.
The fact that it cannot be shifted as an asset with intrinsic value that is worth haggling over, suggests either that:
As usual, it's the fault of the marinas and berth owners. If fees for moorings and berths (and storage ashore) weren't so monstrous, owners could wait and wait for an interested party; and if berths were reasonably priced, there would be much more interest in old, 'essentially sound' boats that at present, defy any economic logic as things that would be nice to own.
- the boat has reached such a level of disrepair or overdue refit that whoever takes charge of her, must inescapably stump up a large sum (and/or many long, arduous weekends) before the vessel is useable; or
- (as I found with my Achilles 24, which definitely was perfectly useable) this marque, style or vintage of vessel, unless in competitive racing form, is essentially without enough of an interested following to be sure of anyone really wanting her at any price.
Possibly as it's a wooden boat, the OP might find interest from the community of wooden boat enthusiasts for whom actual use seems only an adjunct to the fun they can have restoring and repairing.
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