On 1 Jun 2007, at 11:14, davidmackuk wrote:
> The issue is surely not whether this particular chap is or is not
> complying with the continuous cruiser rules. My concern is that the
> BBC has just sent a message out to the wider world that its OK to
> live on a boat, pitch up on the towpath anywhere and hold down
> conventional job and school arrangements - just the sort of thing
> that leads to honeypot mooring sites being occupied for extended
> periods by people who are not genuine continuous cruisers, and quite
> different from Sue and other CCs on this list.
>
Thanks for that!
It seems to me that the crucial issue is not about the minutiae of BW's
imposed interpretation of CCing, but whether people who do have local
commitments are spoiling it for the rest of us. That mainly comes down
to blocking VMs and creating extra lengths of on-line mooring.
There's a trickier bit about the loss of amenity for the rest of us if
mooring sites become cluttered with junk, like the section beyond the
puddle banks at Braunston, because that's an aesthetic judgement about
which Sue and I disagree.
It seems that from BW's point of view, there's a de jure situation
which would make compliance with the CC rules *almost* impossible for
those with local commitments (being engaged in a genuine journey round
the system or a substantial part of it, for example) though again some
members of this list manage to achieve that. And there's a de facto
situation where local BW staff use their judgement about the blocking
and amenity issues, balancing that against the utility of some of these
people. In turn, that means that where the utility is the fact that
they are employees or contractors of BW, the local manager is open to
accusations of cronyism.
Heigh ho - the list had been a bit quiet recently.
––
All the best
Bruce
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
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