Adrian Stott wrote: > "tiamiboat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I have to agree with Brian's comment about the time following up on >> reports of apparently unlicensed craft. For every complaint and >> report from good people like yourselves I have to spend time >> composing a suitable response having completed an investigation >> involving the team on the ground. Quite often the boat is actually >> licensed but not displaying. > > Then clearly there should be a hefty fine for non-displaying. > Certainly hefty enough to pay you for following up the reports.
But spare a thought for those of us not lucky enough to live on our boats. Licenses often only arrive a few days before the previous ones expire. It's a 180 mile round trip to the boat. I'm *not* visiting just to put the license fee on in the very narrow window I have between not having next year's license and not having a valid license. I've never really got this bit about displaying the license for a mainstream canal boat. Not since computers came in, anyway. After all, if I was licensed last year, and I've not bought one this year, where am I likely to have vanished my boat to. If simple terror and intimidation of those without a license can work for the TV people I don't see why it can't work for BW. In fact, if BW took a leaf out of the TVL people they could start picking on all those millions of people who claim to not have a boat, but we know better.
