I phoned BW Licensing to arrange a short term licence in the last week of May and it turned up the next day.
I then went to buy the annual licence (which I buy through my local boat club as they get a small kickback from BW) on 4th June and said I wanted it to start from 6th June, immediately after the short term licence expired. I was told that I wasn't eligible for a prompt payment discount as it has to start on the first day of the month, even though the boat was already licensed for the first 5 days. I have queried this with BW and await the outcome. The difficulty was that having been out of the water for over a year doing a major refit and having no current safety certificate until the evening before I licensed the boat, applying earlier wasn't an option. Maybe I should have not bothered to licence the boat for the last 2 days of May and saved myself both the short term licence fee and potentially £70-odd discount. Who says honesty pays?! Steve NB Breamisback Lots of refit pictures now at <http://www.bream.org>
