In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Millin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> One final thought instead of charging by area how about length and >draft >> then you only need a gauging stick and deeper boats that need the >cut to >> be dredged deeper pay more and it should appeal to the >traditionalists. > >It's a thought but surely, by this method, you would penalise older >deep-draughted (and long) historic working craft and these are the >very boats that we should be struggling to keep on the system for >heritage reasons? Sounds like an excellent idea to me it would catch all those with these new boats with plonky plonk engines that have to be deep drafted to get the right size prop :-)
Working on that theory Idleness would cost more than Parglena that I like ;-) -- Julian Tether Barge Parglena e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
