Jerra

I thought that despite what CRT say it was a requirement in law.

Assuming we take Ian's point about disabled boaters knowing more about it than we do. Does anybody know/have seen/heard of a narrowboat with no able bodied crew? I am just pondering why disabled boaters felt the need to request special bollards unless they are in the habit of having no able bodied crew. I am trying to visualise a situation where able bodied crew sit back and leave mooring to somebody not fully able. The people I have boated with who have a disability (two women and one man) would aim to swap tasks requiring agility or strength or good vision etc for jobs they felt more suitable. Hence my question about able bodied crew.

That mention of the same distance in half the time implies you would have to be tearing along. At least that is how it reads to me. A 20 mile range in six months, so say 40 miles in total. That's what, about 25 to 30 football pitches per week. Not too onerous I wouldn't have thought.

I am waiting for a definitive answer as to the good reason. A good suggestion but why two lots. I have arthritis and I would find them a nuisance when tying a lighterman's. Do people with arthritis need accessible moorings? Both crew members I have had who needed accessible moorings had walking problems and used wheelchairs for distances over a few yards. Come to think of it how many people who need accessible mooring don't have able bodied crew doing the mooring See above which I feel covers the points. Now you mention it I don't think it has been thought through. I think it has been a case of what can we do to make accessible moorings better. Then desperation to find a project hasn't consulted those who need (N.B. I say need as I have seen boats moored on accessible moorings that have been seen elsewhere using ordinary moorings with no problems) them as to what is actually needed. I wasn't thinking of CRT bashing before merely querying what i thought was bad design but your mention makes me think perhaps CRT deserve in this case a bit of a bashing.

I hadn't noticed anybody bashing CRT. I do notice a number querying the design of the bollard which isn't CRT bashing. I have said (and I have and will in the future need to use accessible moorings for crew members) why are there the cross pieces they seem totally useless to me. I note nobody has suggested why they are necessary. I certainly don't need them neither would my disabled crew, so can somebody explain why people with difficulties need anything other than a taller bollard (with its attendant problems)

True, however, I suspect the arms sticking out will make it a bit more difficult. Why are they there? surely a tall conventional bollard would do the job just as well.

My opinion. If it aint broke don't fix it. Bollards of the conventional design have worked successfully for years why change.