haha, I'll hold my hands up to that one, turns out my midnight beer maths is better than my midday about to have kids descend on my boat maths. 🤣
Did think the number looked wrong, but stupidly didnt spot that it added back to £2m instead of £20m
Still, if CRT want to auction off towpath moorings the right to bridge hop at £666 the number of the beast there will be takers. Seems better than selling us the right to not have a mooring for more than twice as much as CRT is getting for actual moorers, anyway.
I think you were also an order of magnitude out with your separate suggestion CCers use facilities 20-30x more than the average though. Even my bad posts don't fill Elsans with that much disproportionate amount of shit, and some CCers have amazing eco friendly composting toilets!
Flip side of this is I suspect most CCers actually CC. And of the ones that don't I suspect the ones with the actual purchasing power aren't avoiding paying for an £800 end of garden mooring, they're unable to find a suitable mooring in their preferred area at all because waiting lists and wild London prices
So the new charge wouldn't change their incentive to CM, but does possibly leave the cost-focused ones competing for cheap farm moorings up north with people that actually want to keep their leisure boat on a cheap farm mooring up north (tbf, CRT seem to be trying to close the 'ghost mooring' loophole, but if they haven't succeeded in clamping down on existing stricter rules ....). Meanwhile people who actually CC would pay more to the CRT than most people with home moorings, and the CRT still wouldn't have enough money because people voted to ensure the entire burden of cost increases fell on the seventh of waterways users that wasn't them...
Crawling along in a box section metal tube sounds like the sort of thing only Prince Harry would like (he can pretend that the fishermen are Taliban). Probably best we don't invite him though, because if Meghan likes it as well we'll have the canals all filled in to universal public acclaim by 2024