Oh come on [CYNICAL MODE]
Surely it is much easier to clock up your 100 (or whatever the figure is) daily checked boats by doing it in a marina - an hour's walk around the marina and that is 100 boats checked and ticked off. To do a similar number of boats on the towpath or on linear moorings is much harder work and takes an awful lot longer. I would also suggest that checking the towpath boats is more likely to result in finding some unlicensed boats - and that of course will create its own additional paperwork load. [/CYNICAL MODE] I remember the owners of a small boatyard telling me a couple of years ago that they were visited once a month and each time the same thirty boats were checked yet two hundred yards up the cut were 3 unlicensed craft permanently moored that were never looked at! Malcolm From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cragg Sent: 31 July 2007 15:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [canals-list] FW: K&A Maybe it's BW sniffers week. There was one round our Marina who was arranging to visit another 30 miles away. This checking must cost a fortune what with pay, insurance, car allowance and mobile phone bills. Is it profit driven like the BSC as in no unlicensed boats found = boot? Couldn't help thinking our checker might be better employed near Manchester, Oxford or maybe London than in Shires marinas. (Thinks - Wonder if he does BWML ones.) Sue Burchett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:sue%40navvy.freeserve.co.uk> > wrote: Subject: K&A We met BW man with clip board checking boats today at Hungerford. There are no concessions for overstaying on 24hr moorings as there are no problems on the K&A and he hasn't heard of any problems on the Thames. We have heard that there is a recurring problem at Midgham and you know the situation on the Thames. We hope to be at Reading at the weekend. Sue Sue nb Nackered Navvy --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
