On Monday, June 04, 2007 10:09 AM [GMT+1=CET], Steve Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since BWB have a policy of encouraging cruising, they should charge > concessionary rates for weekenders on moorings over which it has > control. But this of course would be a concessioin to its social > responsibilities and totally out of line with the money-grubbing > ethos of Waterways for > Tomorrow which is the justification it uses for 'following commercial > rates', in turn leading to increasingly more people like me just > tying up on the towpath. In our pre-live-aboard days when we did a lot of weekending, we nearly always tied up on the towpath - the circumstances in which we wouldn' were (a) if we needed to leave the boat unattended an two weeks, or (b) if we felt the area we were in was vandal-rone or (c) we were combining leaving the boat between trips with having some maintenance work done on it. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
