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cotswoldsman Veteran II

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Not often I have a rant but here goes!!

 

As I was coming down the Lancaster Canal yesterday saw this very very nice house built fairly recently, the garden covers about 500 yards of canal. And there are 4 signs asking boaters not to moor opposite as they do not want there privacy invaded. I am told that they did have No Mooring signs on the mooring side but BW made them take the signs down. Why do people build houses by the Canal and then expect boaters to keep clear!!! The canal has been there for over 200 years.

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We saw the same thing coming out of Chester last year. What a joke.

 

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Matthew Knowles Proficient

Matthew Knowles

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Looks like a lovely piece of grass to moor up against and sit out on a sunny evening. I wonder if they've provided bins or even recycling facilities for the beer cans?

CanalWalker Rising Star

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I think a fence or hedge is their answer, I could understand a polite notice asking people to be quiet out of hours but who would expect to demand boaters dont stop at all.

 

I agree a good place for a get together.

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Ahhh yes - that's the one, and proof if ever it were needed that money and good taste don't always go together! Don't you just love that twee picket fencing and the pretend lamp standards. Where's the barf smiley?

 

Apparently BW have written to the occupiers telling him that boaters are perfectly entitled to moor opposite his property, and several of our local "characters" have already suggested a weekend gathering complete with barbeques, best cheap coal on the stove started with oily rags, a multitude of idling aged Listers etc etc - you get the picture :lol:

 

Andy

 

PS Nice to see you chuntering again John :lol:

churchward Veteran II

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Sign on the boat saying, "please respect privacy, stay in doors whilst I'm moored here"

Like your thinking! :lol:

 

A banter is a super idea! Or perhaps next years' IWA Festival?

Even better! :lol:

Chertsey Veteran

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If you did moor opposite, do you think they'd bother walking all the way around to remonstrate? Or just open fire?

 

I'm very pleased to hear that BW have been in touch with them. Perhaps they should make the towpath there an official 48 hour or 14 day mooring to make the position absolutely clear. Or maybe even a long term residential one. Cheap.

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sadly these type of things are getting more profuse and usually bw side with the bricks and mortar dwellers :lol:

 

As per the one that I mentioned in another thread at Rowington on the GU, towpath side (near the bridge that gave access to the now closed Tom O'The Wood pub). There the signs always looked like official BW ones although anyone can lift a logo and get it put on a notice these days. If they don't want boats why build the bl**dy house next to a canal?!!!!

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It happened on Nantwich Embankment where occupiers of new houses objected to boats mooring on part of the visitor moorings. Sad to say that BW took away the rings and stopped mooring at the site.

carlt Veteran II

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It happened on Nantwich Embankment where occupiers of new houses objected to boats mooring on part of the visitor moorings. Sad to say that BW took away the rings and stopped mooring at the site.

BW can take away the rings but they have no power to stop mooring there.

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At Bettisfield by the BW moorings a chap put a swimming pool in his garden and then got BW to stop the mooring so he could swim in private. I'd have made him pay for the mooring permit...

andywatson Rising Star

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BW can take away the rings but they have no power to stop mooring there.

 

That's interesting. Can you be a bit more specific.

 

At Barton Turns marina there are BW signs banning mooring for 75 metres each side of the entrance on the opposite side.

-Obviously morring directly opposite the marina entance would not be wise but 75 metres away seems a bit much.

Once I did pull up temporarily just within the signs and a chap from the adjacent bungalow was out wthin a minute drawing my attention to the ( small - at that time anyway) signs which I hadn't seen.

Apparently this chap has tried to buy that particular stretch of towpath.....

I've really got the urge to moor there.

 

Whilst on the subject of mooring.

It is well known that BW provides special moorings for hire boaters on the wide bits of canal where other boat may attempt to wind and also priority moorings with their own water tap.

Last week my mate went out of his boat on an on line private mooring to find a Canaltime boat moored on the slot behind AND plugged into the electricity.

- very nice!

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A banter is a super idea! Or perhaps next years' IWA Festival?
My thoughts exactly, the lancaster is on my list of possible waterways to visit when I get the boat done, now wild horses wouldnot keep me away i.m just the person to moor there what are these people thinking :lol: Edited by soldthehouse

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