2009/10/9 peteuk [email protected] > > > It is not the continuous cruisers that I see as the problem. > It is the continuous liveaboard moorers that take over a canal bank as > though they owned it. >
What! You mean that those who have official, non-residential moorings don't do the same thing? Oh yes they do. And in far greater numbers. By the time they've finished putting a shed there, and a BBQ, and a couple of seats and a table for when it's warm, and a window box or two for geraniums... and of course all the rubbish which isn't rubbish at all by important stuff that's so important they dont want to take it with them when they go cruising, which anyhow isn't very often... Me, I would bring in a clause for contracts on linear moorings making it quite clear that what boats rent is a mooring space in the water and that the towpath is just that - a towpath. It is not an extension to the boat. It is bad enough having boats moored at all ruining beatiful reaches of the countryside without their owners reducing the towpaths to suburban gardens. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
