Terry Waldron said "This obviously would not apply to any person who can give assurance they have a reasonable level of experience on the inland waterways"
I doubt that an assurance would be sufficient to validate that someone has sufficient experience. Let's face it the health and safety psyche now rules. Imagine the High Court barrister. "All my client had to do was say he had been boating for 20 years and the yard let him loose with a 70 foot narrowboat." When, what my client meant was that he had hired a pedalo at Blackpool for the previous 20 years and dutifully returned when they called "come in 23 your time is up". Trevor
