> If you have a "Waterway Maintenance" sign on the back of the boat .... Does > that mean you get a free license? : -) > > John nb Charlotte Rose
No, EA lock keepers have to have licences on all their dinghies, etc. However, if I take a kayak or small boat onto a canal for a day expressly for the purpose of "Waterway Maintenance", whether it be to get to a barge that we've anchored in the middle, or to attach a tirfor cable to a fallen tree, to guide a crane-mounted piling extractor, or to pick up litter, then if someone complains about my lack of licence I would just tell them to do the job themselves, go home and never bother to help on that particular canal again. It hasn't happened yet. Dave Wedd.
