bty465680 wrote...
>
>Now Day licences are £10 a day, the same boat would cost £300 odd to
>licence, and the cost of mooring permits has gone up ridiculously,
>especially with BW's drive to push them up more with the tendering
>scheme.
>
>No, I think they've killed the public's enthusiasm for canals as they
>are now too inaccessable to the masses from a boating point of view,

A pity that similar price rises have not killed the public's enthusiasm 
for motoring.
>
>This is backed up by the type of stalls now seen at the NEC Boat,
>Caravan, and Leisure show which was mainly geared towards GRP and
>coastal use, and much less for canals.
>
Has that not always been so?
-- 
Martin Clark

Internet Boaters' Database   http://www.lock13.co.uk/boats
Pennine Waterways Website    http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk

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