I personal think that all boats pay the same licence fee, but if you buy a boat that is to big and only sits at the end of a garden, you are not helping to keep the waterway open, so that person should pay more, a moving boat will keep weed down and keep the water moving, even weekend boat owners and short holidays boaters came out of the marinas, so lets stop the silly talk of, "I don't want to move my boat so I don't want to pay to keep the canals or rivers open", you knew the rules when you bought a boat so don't try and change rules after to suit youself.
--- In [email protected], Adrian Stott <re...@...> wrote: > > >Maybe (at renewal time) we should be given a list of canals/rivers that we > >want to use, the license then based on boat length & boat width & potential > >miles/locks of our selected choice. > > >Ron Jones > > I think that would be unworkable. Each year, each boat owner would > demand to pay for only the waterways he wants to cruise that year. The > reason this wouldn't work is that for the future of boating generally > we have to recognise the value of the other waterways we can use, and > pay for that value. > > <roger.mil...@...> wrote: > > >No, I think a much better idea would be that you're all forced to have a > >transponder fitted to your boat and then your movements are tracked by > >satellite. If you move, you're tracked and charged; if you don't move you're > >just charged anyway. Sounds fine to me ;-))) > >Roger > > <br...@...> wrote: > > >Just turn the clock back, employ lock keepers and pay a toll to go > >through each lock. > > It turns out that there's no justification for charging based on the > amount of boating you do. BW has estimated that the cost to it of a > boat moving a km along a waterway is so small as not to be worth > bothering with, and certainly not worth the cost of collecting. > > This has led me to conclude that the system should consist solely of > an annual charge for each boat, that depends on the length of its > cruising range (i.e. a standard £/km multiplied by the number of > kilometres in the range). Simple to calculate (all you need is a > spreadsheet with the waterways dimensions, and a database of boat > sizes, both of which are already available). Simple and inexpensive > to collect. And the chargng system could cover all waterways and be > operated by a single collection body, with the proceeds distributed > among the navigaton authorities depending on the proportions of the > cruising ranges that are in each -- not a difficult program to write. > Adrian > > > > Adrian Stott > Tel. UK (0)7956-299966 >
