1 Dec 2007 18:28
Re: Over winter Moorings BW Sites
BW are very good at doing that on the Witham as well. All the boats near the Grand Sluice in Boston have to move over the winter in case one breaks free and blocks the sluice. This means that a number are usually moved up to Bardney. At one of the user group meetings this was discussed and BW even suggested that another mooring at Fiskerton Nature Reserve could be used for those wintering. They were most put out when I suggested that they shouldn't use it as it was a mooring put in for the EA who run the reserve and people might like to cruise down there in the winter to watch the wildlife. Steve Terry Waldron <talwaldron@...> wrote: BW are allowed to let off 25 percent of their visitor moorings to boats who wish to stay longer than the limited period (during the Nov to March period) - there is a comment somewhere on their website to this affect. They MUST however allow sufficient space for visitors to moor for the limited period but it is evident in some areas they do actually let more than 25 percent. One site where they have (in the past) let more than 25 percent is Thorne - we got to the Sanitory Station and Visitor Moorings only to find ONE mooring available which was along the wall by the fence and no on the pontoons - you can normally get 7 boats in on the moorings and after talking to most of the other boats they were (virtually) all there for a long period. If you find that MORE than 25 percent is taken up by long term moorers then you have the right to challenge BW so that you can have a short term visitor mooring, but, it may be by the time they have sorted it out it will be time for you to move, then your only option is to Complain in accordance with the BW Complaints Procedure. Terry(Continue reading)
I've only just caught up with this. I'm not sure which particular of
my points of view you're after at this stage - though honoured by the
comment.
I think I am coming to the view that for the waterways as we love them
to survive a period of downturn is not only inevitable, but essential.
Given the choice between the atmospheric waterways I grew into, and the
sanitised and tarted up ones we are getting (and I'm not arguing against
the occasional central Birmingham here [the destruction of Gas Street
excepted]) I find it hard not to wish for a return to the late 70s and
early 80s. I am arguing against:
Endless rows of identikit fake-wharehouse-shaped housing on both banks
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