Having just spent a couple of months chugging round BW canals the one thing I have seen BW doing more than anything else (like real work on the track) is marching round with clipboards and machines checking boats. Mind you one wonders how much their hearts are in it. One BW man found a (hotel?) boat neatly moored between two no mooring signs blocking the canal opposite a water point with an empty 48hour mooring 50yards away. Yet when the boat owner (who had no interest in water but was neatly placed for a car park pickup point) said he hadn't noticed the sign BW said OK and wandered off leaving him still blocking rather than suggesting he move the 50yards. Meanwhile at Western Wharf, Stratford we noted all the Hire/share boats have out of date licenses or 'license in the post notices' and this was on turn round day with the out of daters all being turned round.
--- On Thu, 6/19/08, chris potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: chris potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Speeding - caught on camera? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 8:44 AM Do you think for one minute that this boat was licenced and insured? CKP ----- Original Message ---- From: Strudwick.Family <strudwick.family@ btinternet. com> To: canals-list@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 9:04:51 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Speeding - caught on camera? Can't see what all the fuss is about. The banks are hard so the wash will not do any harm. They slow down for other boaters. If BW make silly rules that have no relationship to the speeds the canals were designed for and that were reached in the early 18 hundreds then they can expect people to ignore them. If BW want to stop speeding perhaps they should employ some lengthmen who could also look out for unlicensed boats and so called continuous cruisers over stay on visitors moorings. Paul ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs. yahoo.com/ nowyoucan. html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
