Dorothy wrote: > Boatowners may not rush to put their new licence on the boat. If they know > they have paid and BW know they have paid, what business is it of anyone > else?
Quite simply, Dorothy because, it is a condition of the licence that you display the licence that you've purchased. This then makes it easier for the BW enforcement officers to spot those that have not licenced their boat and speeds up what little enforcement legal action that may ensue. I took this up with BW when a certain boat that regularly overstays on Skipton central 3-day moorings, moors for prolonged periods on lock landings and doesn't display a licence. The boat is called Warde- Aldham and is owned by BW!!!!! They claim that no BW boat has a licence and, therefore, cannot display it. My point to them was that, even though I don't expect them to charge themselves for a licence (that would be bureaucracy gone mad) they should display a licence so that other boaters would be encouraged to display theirs. A year later and nothing has changed. A case of 'Don't do as we do, do as we say', perhaps. Roger
