I have to disagree with the topic being a woman I put a bid in which was sucessful I do disagree with the tendering for a mooring based on price but if we want to have canals then someone is going to have to pay to maintain them, otherwise all the people in the past who fought to re-open them will have wasted their time and effort. I travel on a very special boat which is adapted for a wheelchair user and I can tell you he faces discrimination every day, we bought tickets for him to watch a show in a theatre where he paid the highest price for a space for his chair where was it at the back of the theatre it was the Blues Brothers band and of course everyone in front got up to dance around leaving John watching their backs, when I asked could I move him into the aisle I was told no because of health and safety. I would like BW to have more disabled access points for us more disabled showers and moorings but working with their coordinator we found one that is suitable for wheel chair access. They can only try their best to please us and of course some of the time they will get it wrong but if everyone stopped moaning at them and we all work together then like the people who fought so hard in the past and are still fighting to re-open canals we will all get waht we want