Neil Wrote:> > As you will have noticed BW proposes a £50 surcharge on all 
boats over 6ft > 10ins wide...so that will include most ex-working (and many 
replica) > narrowboats built to the correct gauge of 7ft, or spread to 7ft 
2ins!?> This will attempt to dispense with another load of troublesome boaters, 
that > demand that pinch points are removed and that the canal is dredged 
(where in > reality, working boats are doing most of the silt dispersal)> > 
What with the £150 surcharge on Continuous Cruisers (where in reality it > 
should only apply to the Continuous Moorers), it would appear that BW are > 
favouring their prefered market, the Contiuous Berthers...ie the people with > 
£60,000 plus narrowboats that moor in £3000 plus marinas, who hardly ever > 
come out and actually *do* any boating and are well-off enough to afford the > 
"modest" licence increase.> Hi All, 
 
I am surprised that this has taken so long to be commented on?
 
Moose
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