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Agreed, for those who have never experienced first hand the extraordinary pressures of being unjustly pursued under such draconian powers, the resultant bitterness seems incomprehensible and unjustified.

no, bungee strap is not going to stop it getting knocked off the fender if your back end swings and hits something, or even if you hit shallows and the boat tilts at an angle. If you want it there, get someone like CaptainFizz off here to fabricate you a proper secure mount with a quick release handle. I would have it secured at the front end, and trail the rope down the roof when you are cruising to just in front of your hatch, or even on the hatch. This means you can chuck it overboard straight away, not have to fight with a tiller arm and bungee cord. This also means your boat will be front end on to the current when anchor digs in.

I wasn't aware marinas offered that service. Did it cost extra to get the boat free?.

Not really. I believe no such thing. As Nigel points out I can see past the personal insults from Tony and still grasp the principles. My comment was that his insults and general nastiness leads to loss of support on here. Not necessarily from me, but from a broad cross section of readers who take exception to his writing style. It does him no favours. MtB

Hobby horse time. I have a home mooring, for which I have to pay CaRT and the land-owner a mooring fee. OK, so I pay CaRT because I occupy a bit of their water when I am at my home mooring - but unless they crane out their boat every night, every continuous cruiser occupies a bit of CaRT's water, every day and every night - just not the same bit of water for any length of time (theoretically anyway.) Abolish the mooring charge, and increase EVERYONE's licence fee, so that the cost to boaters of maintaining the system is shared equally. What's wrong with that?.

Only because you believehe is someone who doesn't fit the "perfect profile" of your idea of a boater. He may not be Mr Perfect, but for crying out loud he does seem to have been harassed illegally. Do you want to see a police state, where the state is always right, whether they are right or not. Where if you dare to challenge it you're wrong. it's like all the surveillance at the moment, it's wonderful for the safety of the us all, but what happens if the government changes and starts to use it against those it doesn't like. Bob Edit to make sense

No it is notAre you the forum police? people are being made aware of something boat related

Perhaps if you lost some of the bitterness and bile out of your postings more people would be supportive of you, but this does you no favours.

There will always be something wrong in most large organisations running where we live, whether in the more localised environment of the inland waterways or in the country itself. Most of us will never encounter any personal problems because of that, but for those that do, the choice is to leave in disgust, or remain and work towards improvement of the situation. Nil carborundum and all that, as someone else quoted earlier.

Parry is not someone to be believed . . . and, in fact, is beginning to look potentially like a strong candidate for being an even bigger disaster than Evans, due in part to the fact that he is much better at disguising his real character and putting on a good front than Evans ever was. As far as C&RT not making decisions "to throw people off the cut on a whim" . . . well, they do actually. They have just taken several months over wasting a lot of money that would have been better spent on the rapidly increasing maintenance backlog, trying to evict me from their disintegrating empire, just to see if they can get away with exceeding their statutory powers by imposing CC'ing rules on boats with home moorings. So, you're spot on when you say "those that break the rules have the capacity to spoil it for us all" . . . they really do, and they're called Richard Parry and C&RT.

Bollocks. If anyone is moored up next to another boat and doesn't realise that them running their engine all night is sodding antisocial they are more than likely to be aggressive if interrupted. It's by definition selfish and thoughtless. They are very unlikely to say oh dear, I never thought of that and switch it off. More probably pissed as rats and looking for a fight. And a rant is a way of getting it out of one's system in a fairly cheerful manner which does no-one any harm. And we all get a chance to have a go at various people for an assortment of reasons. So everyone wins.

Bloody good if they actually do it !!! Commuter cyclists are a curse on the towpaths in London turning a public amenity into a race track They need stopping. I've even seen idiot cyclists shouting at people to move out of the way. Pedestrian priority :lol: We are out for a walk with small children - these fast cyclists don't give a ---t they are a---holes with no respect for anyone.