If you were looking forward to being able to moor for 14 days at Darlington Wharf, Devizes Wharf or Crofton basin this winter, tough.
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Posts Tagged ‘winter moorings’
Winter moorings cut
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015Question mark over winter moorings
Friday, July 3rd, 2015CRT to review winter moorings following chaos of new system
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014Winter moorings denied to liveaboards
Thursday, July 11th, 20132013 winter mooring permits have been designed to prevent boaters complying with enforcement notices and promote roving mooring permits
CRT appears determined to make liveaboard boaters homeless by denying those who have been subjected to enforcement the opportunity to comply by taking a winter mooring.
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Demanding money with menaces
Monday, October 12th, 2009Thought demanding money with menaces was a criminal offence? Well, not if perpetrated by British Waterways apparently.
It is not so long since the recent reception of 200 threatening letters to boaters from British Waterways and now the winter mooring shop is open.
How much you ask?
£218 per month …why £218? £200? 210?.. anyway… £218 per month for a 58 foot boat so the total for 6 months of not being hassled by the Enforcement Team (we need a theme tune) £1300.
That is nearly twice as much as the cost of a licence – a licence which includes the right to moor anywhere for 14 days including the now ‘pay for’ Dundas and Darlington Wharf, now imaginatively called ‘Walcot’ by BW.