From: "Steve Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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?! Hi Steve and All, On the Avon, LANT have a 12 month policy. Last year when we brought LT back onto the Avon to moor here in Evesham we had to pay for the full year even though we 'joined' in July. 'Rules is rules' Regards, Andrew
