Adrian said: > > You would have to have paid for the day *before* the boat was put into > the water, so you would have a ticket you could show. If you were > stopped (Heavens! Actual BW people doing enforcement!) with your boat > in the water with no valid ticket, there would be a serious fine.
But the requirements for a licence and the so-called enforcement is already here NOW and still portable boats are used unlicenced and make use of locks (from which they are forbidden) so why, in your utopian world, will anything change? We have loads of rules and regulation in both the waterways and the general rule of law, it is the enforcement that is sadly lacking leading to a total disrespect for those rules and regs. Clawing back a few bob from the few portable boats that bother to pay isn't going to fund the army of enforcement agents that you think will enforce licencing so it's the status quo yet again with a few more conditions in BW's T&C's for boaters. I can just picture the enforcement scene you describe: Enforcement Officer (EO) 'Scuse me son, can you tell me your name and address 'cos it ain't shown on this ere canoe sonny!' Delinquent (D) 'My name's Mickey Mouse and I live in Orlando and you can eff off' EO 'Look ere sonny, if you don't give me your name I'll have to follow you ome and have a word with your Dad' D 'If you follow me ome I'll tell me Dad that your a paedophile who propositioned me and then me Dad'll hit ya and we'll tell the Police just what you are' EO 'All right then sonny, want a hand to put your canoe back in the water then me old mate?' Sorry Adrian, it won't work and it won't be enforced. Roger
