----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Working narrowboats to pay the £50 "broad" beam surcharge?! (XP)
> "Iain Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:52 AM > >>> What is being proposed is a fee that varies with your cruising range, >>> i.e. how many km of waterway you can access from your home mooring. >> >>So trailable boats should pay more than anyone else? :-} > > If they can "go anywhere" (i.e. are narrow beam), then their cruising > range should be assumed to be the whole network. > > However, since the proposed charge would be per day in the water, and > I assume that a trailboat is usually out of the water, I think it > would actually be charged quite a bit less in a year than most other > boats. Ho, hum..... Ours is in the water most of the time, but can easily take a trip on its trailer to anywhere on the English network or other BW waters, the Crinan or Caledonian, as well as on the "home waters" of the Scottsh lowland canals. Come to think of it, we've been "doon the watter" to Greenock, so anyone on a bit of canal which has a connection to salt water should pay the same...... :-) -- Iain
