-- Original Message -- From: Lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote . . > If you have an online mooring under Bw this policy > effects you Because as new marinas open across the > network for every 10 offline births created 1 online > moorer will be evicted, so in our case pillings > marina has opened on the river Soar with 280 births > so Bw are evicting 28 fully paid up moorers in a > 30 mile radius !
First of all let me express sympathy for your plight. Whoever, wherever and from whatever, eviction is not a pleasant experience. I do not know the local geography so have no idea how much on line mooring there is, the profile and depth of the canal or the level of inconvenience caused to cruising boats. If a lot of your neighbours spend a lot of time hollaring a passing boats to slow down then perhaps there is a sensible case for relocation. The opening of offline boat parks is fine by me, especially if it makes it easier to use the linear assets as a waterways rather than a residential option. The manner and timing of re-location is another matter and there are obviously better and worse options depending on the standpoint of the evictor and evictee. I'm not touching on that point. Quite a few folk around here, including me, might feel that there are too many linear moorings in certain parts of the country with too many owners who appear to resent folk cruising past, at any rate of progress. Our boat has a linear mooring on the G&S which is a deep waterway such that we are not bothered when all manner of craft zoom past at relatively high speed, creating all kinds of bow waves and suchlike. (Well we do find the rowists trying as they are often bad mannered, travel at high speed, don't look where they are going and have no qualms about battering your boat with their blades). In no way does our presence compromise the ability of others to make progress along the waterway. In fact we enjoy the variations of craft and don't mind giving a cheery wave to the Birmingham Navy out on their manoevres. Or to the grotesque Oliver Cromwell hotel boat when that flounders past. We have a new 280 boat marina under construction nearby and although we are "end of garden" status I suppose BW could have another think and have us moved, which will be less pleasant for us and presumably more costly. We'll have to wait and see. Broadly I would support a decluttering of the narrow canals and if that means we have to relocate as well I can't be hypocrite enough to say we are a different case We plainly are though ! Beeky be seeing you soon on a pontoon ___________________________________ thorNET, http://www.thornet.co.uk
