simon hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. I am NOT a residential boater ! >2. BW Have NEVER offered me suitable alternative moorings ! >3. Where is my apology ?
In Waterways World, 2007 July, page 51 there is a report on BW's initiative to reduce the number of towpath moorings. BW is quoted as saying that for every ten new offline moorings created, ten towpath moorings will be closed. In the Sawley area, 280 new moorings were created at Pillings Lock on the Soar. BW has told me that it informed all those on the towpath moorings it would not be renewing (I believe all those moorings were on one-year terms, and that BW had the right not to renew them) at Sawley and Beeston that moorings would be available at Pillings. In Towpath Talk of 2007 July 12, page 2, BW is reported to be attempting to persuade those using towpath moorings not to be renewed to move to Pillings.. Operators of some off-line moorings are unwilling to accept boats used residentially. However, there is no such problem with non-residential boats (unless of course they have some other significant flaw, such as lack of a licence or BSS, or offensive scruffiness). As a result, I stand by my statement. So my answer to the question in 3. above is "Where's mine?" >People are fed up with the growing attitude of back biting and abuse from >people who should be (by all rights) their friends Some people on the waterways are fed up with those who keep demanding rights they don't actually have, to the detriment of the rest of the waterways community. >I now realize who you are I have read your articles in Waterways World ! >Your attitude in those articles is just the same as your comments here (jumped >up and self opinionated) Ah, my editor will be please to hear of another constant reader. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
