General Terms and Conditions for Boat Licences - Schedule 2: MOORING INFORMATION
GUIDANCE FOR BOATERS WITHOUT A HOME MOORING
If a boat is licensed without a home mooring1 it must move on a regular basis. This Guidance2 seeks to explain in day to day terms the nature of the movement that must take place.
There are three key legal3 requirements:-
the boat must genuinely be used for navigation throughout the period of the licence.
unless a shorter time is specified by notice the boat must not stay in the same place for more than 14 days (or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances); and
it is the responsibility of the boater to satisfy the Trust that the above requirements are and will continue to be met.
“Navigation”
The law requires that the boat “will be bona fide used for navigation throughout the period of [the
licence]”.
‘Bona fide’ is Latin for “with good faith” and is used by lawyers to mean ‘sincerely’ or ‘genuinely’.
‘Navigation’ in this context means travelling on water involving movement in passage or transit. 4
Therefore, subject to stops of permitted duration, those using a boat licensed for continuous cruising must genuinely be moving, in passage or in transit throughout the period of the licence.
Importantly, short trips within the same neighbourhood, and shuttling backwards and forwards along a small part of the network do NOT meet the legal requirement for navigation throughout the period of the licence.5
The terms ‘cruise’ and ‘cruising’ are used in this guidance to mean using a boat bona fide for navigation.
“Place”
I think this states clearly that to move between two points continuously is not considered CCing.
Jenlyn is right though, there are a lot of people with appalling attitudes against CCers. Without doubt some CCers are abusing the system, but don't paint us all with the same brush.