tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post392925986126258619..comments2024-02-14T20:17:15.115+00:00Comments on Chertsey: Dog bites man... BW buggers up licenceSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759448161130667128noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-84014022221811884652010-07-24T14:13:50.519+01:002010-07-24T14:13:50.519+01:00Yes, apparently when they first introduced them (i...Yes, apparently when they first introduced them (in 1981? 82?) they didn't issue the numbers sequentially, they just had sent a big box of plates to each region so it's pretty random. But Tortoise would have had its number from new, I guess, rather than pre-existing it, so that's pretty special.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01759448161130667128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-4884300274380430232010-07-24T13:52:49.848+01:002010-07-24T13:52:49.848+01:00The irony is that even your 'old' number i...The irony is that even your 'old' number is higher than that on Tortoise, a mere 30 years old... ;-)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098938874477314472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-6767450868552768362010-07-23T22:25:49.597+01:002010-07-23T22:25:49.597+01:00For reasons to comples to repeat Fulbourne got iss...For reasons to comples to repeat Fulbourne got issued with a new index number, but we never changed the plates. So for a couple of years we had one number on the index plates and another on the licence. Eventually it all got sorted, and we reverted to the old index number.<br /><br />Or so we thought, until a BW patrol man logged the boat by name, checked his records and found that the boat with the new number had not had its licence renewed. When we pointed out that Fulbourne was indeed licenced and that they were using the wrong index number, they asked us if there was another 71ft 6in long boat, built by Harland & Wolff, with a home mooring at Aylesbury Basin, also called Fulbourne....David Mackhttp://www.grandunioncanalcarrying.co.uknoreply@blogger.com