Boat Licenses Extended By A Month

[Parahandy]

I received notice of the above from the NBTA yesterday and firstly I want to commend the Organisation for their excellent forwarding of Information and Advice throughout this Crisis , many of us are grateful . As regards the License Extension I suppose it will please the Middle Class Boat Owner who has a Boat moored in some Marina but speaking as a Liveaboard Continuous Cruiser it makes little difference , I would have much preferred a Closed Towpath but sadly this wasn't to be .

[Keeping Up]

The logic of this evades me, unless it assumes that Liveaboard Continuous Cruisers don't have licences anyway.

[Alan de Enfield]

5 minutes ago, Keeping Up said:

The logic of this evades me, unless it assumes that Liveaboard Continuous Cruisers don't have licences anyway.

I think you are conflating the two (CCers with NBTA members).

Edited April 27, 2020 by Alan de Enfield

[Parahandy]

24 minutes ago, Keeping Up said:

The logic of this evades me, unless it assumes that Liveaboard Continuous Cruisers don't have licences anyway.

Sorry Allan I was just giving my view that the CRT are more concerned with looking after the interests of one group of Boaters as opposed to another . Doubtless I will be castigated by the usual People for thinking this but I am very disappointed that here in Milton Keynes where we have a Bridleway and Redway on the other side of the Hedge that the Towpath wasn't closed .

Edited April 27, 2020 by Parahandy

[Victor Vectis]

"You've got to accentuate the positive
 Eliminate the negative
 And latch on to the affirmative
 Don't mess with Mister In-Between"

 

We're getting a free month.

What is there not to like?

 

Although I'd agree that the Gold Licence situation needs sorting.

[Keeping Up]

1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I think you are conflating the two (CCers with NBTA members).

No, I made no reference to NBTA, I merely followed the trail of the OP's second sentence. I simply fail to understand why a month's extension to the licence would please a middle-class leisure boater more than it would a liveaboard cc'er.

 

Being also in Milton Keynes I similarly cannot understand why there is not a greater disincentive for people to use the excellent, wide footpaths & bridleways which run parallel to the towpath on the other side of the hedge.

[junior]

NBTA? Just Googled it and got National Baton Twirling Association. 

[Detling]

The logic suggests the OP doesn't have/need a licence. Maybe byewater of a river or a grandfather marina. But it does suggest that they are not a roving trader who meanders along our canals.

[Alan de Enfield]

4 minutes ago, junior said:

NBTA? Just Googled it and got National Baton Twirling Association. 

 

Yes - that's the one, they have diversified into supporting constant moorers and constant moaners.

 

National Boats always Tied up Association

[Hudds Lad]

as the OP is so taken by the extra month he'll be even more happy that CRT have made a nice button to enable him to gift it right back to them.

 

first it giveth, then it taketh away

[haggis]

32 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

as the OP is so taken by the extra month he'll be even more happy that CRT have made a nice button to enable him to gift it right back to them.

 

first it giveth, then it taketh away

It is NOT being taken away but C & RT are giving us the opportunity to gift it back to them IF WE WISH. From various comments on here, many boaters are more than happy to do that as the problems are not of C & RTs making and they are just trying to help boaters who are being hit financially by the virus.

Again I often wonder why folk who see bad in everything C & RT do, still boat. Why not sell their boat and find a past time where the rules suit them? I am well aware that C&RT often get it wrong but  they also often get it right. 

 

Haggis

[Higgs]

1 hour ago, haggis said:

Why not sell their boat and find a past time where the rules suit them? I am well aware that C&RT often get it wrong but  they also often get it right. 

 

Well then, what's your problem? If the sun doesn't always shine out of their backsides, I guess others might say so. I appreciate the gesture of a possible month's holiday, but I won't be pressing any return button. 

 

 

 

[Machpoint005]

24 minutes ago, Higgs said:

I appreciate the gesture of a possible month's holiday, but I won't be pressing any return button. 

 

Same here.

 

 

[roland elsdon]

I paid mine 4 days ago, and just got the docs back. Paid on first opportunity, as my tenants have not been paying rent so cash tight.
same period of licence as last time 5/21.

so 12 month licence.

No option to donate nothing.

 

[Alan de Enfield]

24 minutes ago, roland elsdon said:

No option to donate nothing.

Does that mean there is an option to donate something ?

[roland elsdon]

Double negative...

Crt always want donations

i just donated a huge amount of money not to be able to visit my boat, without breaking a rule.