Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John Slee wrote: >> --- In [email protected], Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Boats on rivers moored on-line to private property don't have them >>> either. > >Its not just a river thing. People with historic mooring rights e.g. old >wharves etc. don't need them either. > >> So can someone on a BW river make (say) £20 for each ("former") >> continuous cruiser who declares his/her mooring as their home base, >> thus depriving BW of their (potential) £150? > >I do know of an offline mooring who don't pay a connection fee who had a >list from BW of all the boats declaring they were moored there which >included a number of boats they'd never heard of!
This is the scam known as "virtual mooring". It is almost impossible for (e.g.) BW to counter, especially if the mooring concerned is on a non-BW navigation. This is yet another reason why the requirement for a boat to have a long-term mooring should not be part of the licence-issuance decision (the main one is that it is useless for preventing towpath squatting). Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
