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    Scrapage rights

    By BODs SR2,

    A boat has been unattended for at least 2 years and has drifted off its moorings several times, being re-moored by passers by and in general being a nuisance. It also was taking on water. A few weeks ago after strong winds it drifted within a stones throw of my back garden which backs onto the canal (with mooring rights). With the aid of a canal trust member I secured it on my mooring. There was already a foot of water inside. I went on hols for a week and returned to find it had sunk and was resting on the bottom. Most of it was flooded but the edges were out of water.
     
    The canal trust were slow to react naturally as it was out of the way on my mooring. Promises of helping to re float it never materialized despite them visiting a few times with mixed messages about what had happened. After contacting them several times about finding the owner, a month later I still have no idea who it belongs to.
     
    In the meantime I hired a pump for £15 and managed to re float it. In general it seems in good order and seems only to have taken on water through an extended period of neglect.
     
    By all accounts it seems nobody is interested in the boat, least of all the canal trust. I am now thinking in terms whether I can take it on. Someone mentioned claiming scrapage rights. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should proceed.
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