Terry Streeter wrote: > Adrian Stott wrote: >> There is no such rationale for charging wider craft more. BW >> certainly hasn't given one -- the quote of Simon Salem is simply >> invalid. >> >> OTOH, there is such a rationale for charging continuous cruisers >> more. > > Personally, I think there is no rationale for charging continuous > cruisers more, but a very good rationale for raising the charges for > Broad/Wide (take your pick) beam boats. But then I'm a continuous > cruiser, so if I was going to base my arguments on pure self interest > I would take that position wouldn't I. > > Terry Streeter > NB Arun - Radford Semele > > ------------------------------------
But Terry, you are the shining example of a Continuous Cruiser and not a Continuous Moorer. In the light of recent developments, would you be prepared to give BW (an optional) basic cruising log (you all ready do, through your trip reports!), in return for non payment of any Continuous Mooring! supliment? If so, it would wipe out 90% of the present "Continuous Cruisers". Likewise I do not think that BW should do away with the Rivers Only Licence and if a wide/broad beam craft is marooned on that navigation, which is classified as wide and the boat owner opts for a Rivers Only Licence, then the owner should not pay a supliment. I certainly think that DOSI *do* know what they are doing and they have cherry picked bits from *their* BWAF (which has suddenly become the whole "consultation"), for *their* self-interest and to divide and conquer. With the demise of their property empire and in-house waterways maintenance, all they seem interested in doing is substatiating themselves by pushing bits of paper around a couple of floors of a faceless office building in Watford while their empire building outer offices do their own thing. In Ireland, Waterways Ireland basically only has to deal with one unified user group - the IWAI (an you cannot get much more unified, as since its inception has been the Inland Waterways Association of IRELAND)...it was only for that reason that Waterways IRELAND (ie waterways in the ROI and NI) was created. It is pathetic over here, (and I will certainly agree with Adrian on that) how fragmented the user groups are (in more ways than one!) Oh and here is the latest picture of what the UK government, through the NI Assembly, will spend on capital investment towards the 15% of Waterways Ireland that they contribute to. http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T08_Imag/July%202008/Img_4089.jpg The new WI HQ in Enniskillen - it is the prime riverside site in Eniskillen. -- Niall O'Rant - NB Erne-less Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
