On 29 Sep 2008, at 17:24, Nick wrote: > I'm not convinced by this distinction between continuous cruisers and > bridge shufflers. It really doesn't matter to me if the moorings I > want > to use are full of the same boat or a different boat every day - if a > boat moves between three different moorings in 20 miles of each other > every two weeks, or never stops the same place twice and covers the > whole system, it is still using a mooring every time it stops and if > there aren't enough moorings, then there aren't enough moorings.
I see your point there. The distinction here is that some of us don't pay for a mooring because we don't need one. we choose to live on a boat because we want to boat all the time. Most bridge hoppers don't pay for a mooring although they do need one, they just don't want to / can't afford to cough up for one. That's why I'm in favour of reducing or removing the connection charge element from mooring fees, where there is one, and recovering the revenue by increasing everyone's licence fee in step. Note that this isn't in my own interest, as a genuine ccer. -- All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
