On 19 Oct 2008, at 08:48, Nick wrote:
> I'm always reluctant to suggest increasing costs anywhere, but it's
> hard
> to see why - for other than historical reasons - this discrepancy
> exists.
>
>
> The "right" position to end up with is that everyone pays a
> contribution
> to BW as part of their license that allows them to moor a boat
> whenever
> they are on BW waters (you can argue that this ought to be something
> that is in a license anyway, but BW seem to have been allowed to win
> this one by default). That's then it. It doesn't matter if your
> boat
> is sometimes moored on a river off BW navigations, or on your own
> garden, or in a flashy marina, or at various places around the
> system as
> you travel. If you have a BW license you have the right to moor
> legally, and whether you pay anyone anything for this is a matter
> between the two of you and nothing for BW.
>
> So this would mean, starting from where we are now:
> - people without any permanent mooring would pay the new fee, but that
> would be the end of the argument about "continuous cruisers/moorers" -
> anything residual should be handled by enforcing visitor mooring regs
> - people with end-of-garden moorings would pay the same or less
> depending on what the sum was set at.
> - people in basins with a BW connection charge ought to pay roughly
> the
> same, but I bet we'd pay more
> - people in the situation you've described would pay more
> - people on BW moorings would pay the same or perhaps a bit less.
>
> Not ideal - as I said, I don't want to make anyone pay more. But the
> current situation where those moored on their own land pay more than
> those moored on various bits of BWs is clearly iniquitous.
>
This is the best summary of my position I've ever seen: thanks Nick!
All we have to do now is get IWA/NABO/RBOA to support it at BWAF...
All the best
Bruce
There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet.
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