Maybe all licenced boats should be required to have a working transponder fitted when they are licensed. This must broadcast their positions daily to the BW automatic recording system. Boats without working transponders after a first time warning would be removed from the waterways or their owners fined for lack of... just like those without a TV license. BW could run the scheme under the slogan 'Big Brother (BW) is looking out for YOU!'
--- On Fri, 11/28/08, Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Licence fees - latest news To: [email protected] Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 10:51 PM Brian J Goggin wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:09:31 +0000, Julian Tether > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] rld.com> wrote: > >> IMO unless a CC is moving a minimum of 10 lock miles every two weeks >> then he should have a mooring, and I don't mean between 3 spots >> either. > > Surely the answer is to require that continuous cruisers present > themselves to BW staff, and get their photographs taken and logs > signed, at (say) six well-separated places within each year. There > might be bonus points for destinations that are little used or > particularly hard to reach. Oh goody!..will I get a rebate from BW ;-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - part time continuous cruiser Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdayn ightclub. co.uk/tour. html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
