On 11/03/2008, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?" Adrian Is it any wonder that people think of you as a boor. You have written absolutely nothing to refute either of simon's assertions that he is not a residential boater and that he has never received an offer of suitable alternative moorings. Quoting woolly passages from Waterways World and Towpath Talk do nothing to prove that what simon says is not absolutely true. I do wonder why you consider that you are due an apology in view of your offensiveness and deceptive statements in relation to simon's individual case.
