David Sullivan wrote: > Cap'n B writes: >> For well less than double that cost per day my wife and I could be >> flown half way around the world, cruise on a luxury liner in a warm >> climate including full board, fuel, insurance, maintenance and >> entertainment. > > A friend of mine was looking to have a canal holiday some > years ago but he discovered that hiring a boat would have > cost him more than going to a ski resort at the most > expensive time of the year. > > Absolutely topnotch rant, BTW. I wish I could do that. > > Dave
You can, just work out how much your boating will increase! A rant is no good unless it has substance! Can people really warrant the frightening figures of £150+ a day for boating that Beeky worked it would cost him with similar use pattern to this year?...if you can, then you could easily afford this: http://www.cruise.co.uk/cruise/P&O-Cruises/Arcadia/12-Mar-09/58697/ Then come back and have no worries of future boating cost increases and your boat soon being worthless. Demand all the salient info from any user group you belong to. If you don't get it, or at least some assistance from them, resign! Someone once close to BW and now close to the users thinks that the user groups response to the way BW is behaving is pathetic! BW are now a stitting duck what with their head office move, fragmenting of departments to many offices, low staffing level, staff with little waterways knowledge, concentrating on property deals and the ticking time bomb of all the structures they have failed to maintain. It would be easy to tie them up in knots, with boaters response to mooring and licence debarcle. This could easily lead to mass ombadsman cases against them and legal challenges. A certain user group in the past, jumped at occasions like this to assist a boater on a test case. BW's inability to now talk constuctively to the users (after pleading with them for support at start of SOW campaign!) means they are now part of the problem, along with DEFRA Waterways Unit, Waterways Minister, Treasury and the PM! Another way to futher bring BW to its knees are Freedom Of Information Requests (FOI) Here is a starter for a FOI request from BW "How many full time BW staff are left that actually *constuctively* manage the waterways"?...why are the boaters expected to pay for all the others? I could sit here and think of hundreds of salinet requests! My future SIL works for Cabinet Office, the thing they dread are stupid FOI requests that they have to assemble...we could bombard BW with VERY salient requests! *By BW - I mean the current incumbents on the Board, upper manegment and their political "masters"...if in fact the "masters" are still in control! -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - Shannon Reg 7410 - This Turkey has flown. Read about the TNC Irish travels at: http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_07/index.html Defend The Waterways: http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
