BlueStringPudding

Hmmm... Well, that's what I'm not clear about. I'd need two liscenses you see - one for the Upper Avon Navigation Trust and one for BW Stratford canal anyway - so surely I could play one off against the other - never quite breaking the rules of either? However... I'm not sure about this - but if you spend your allowed 14 days in one place, and can shift to another waterway for their allotted 14 days - I'd not be allowed to return for 28 days, right? (Or wrong??? Dunno!) In which case I'd still somehow need to bide my time for a further 14 days before being allowed back on the previous waterway. Any thoughts, anyone? Thanks.

Bless!!! She's adorable!

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum so wanted to introduce myself. My name is Lisa and I really want to become a liveaboard - I've set myself a deadline of a year in which to tie up loose ends and make the move! I live in Stratford-Upon-Avon and the way moorings are round here ("hen's teeth" spring to mind) I may be waiiting till I retire! Nice to meet you all, Lisa

This is really interesting, Allan, and exactly the Catch 22 situation that I'm in. The marina waiting lists in Stratford-Upon-Avon are years and years long. I work in the centre of town so need to live near to work. (Incidentally I don't drive so don't want to have to walk more than 3 or 4 miles max to work as public transport is kinda flakey round here). My mooring requests aren't taken seriously as I don't currently have a boat (I thought it might be a sensible idea to wait for a mooring before buying the boat... hmm... could be waiting some time), but without a boat the local BW don't want to know. The only solution is to flout the system... buy a boat, trundle a couple of miles up and down the River Avon or the Stratford Canal for the X years I'll be waiting for a mooring... meanwhile being brandished as a "Bridgehopper", "TowpathTrash" blah blah and risk being fined by the wardens. Is there another solution?

Hello, I also have a mooring question. If you live somewhere where two waterways meet that are run by two different boards (e.g. where the Upper Avon Navigation Trust-run River Avon meets the BW-run Stratford canal) - can you (theoretically, if not entirely honestly) moved between the two waterways every fortnight on a continuous cruising license? Could that be a way of getting the most out of the system without getting told off by either?