Buying a mooring ?

[NigelMoore]

14 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

I do know of one site on the Macclesfield canal where an off-side plot was bought, beautifully tended with flowers and vegetable growing, the boat moored alongside.

 

The story goes that BW threw them off the plot. They left.

As boaters we have almost no rights of tenure under any circumstances.

We do under law, in most circumstances. The Macclesfield enabling Act, in common with most such Acts, specifically grants the right for riparian owners to create moorings to their land, and BW failed to have those rights abolished when promoting the 1990 Bill.

 

It is nonetheless a truism that in practice, no rights effectively exist unless you are prepared to fight for their recognition.

[WotEver]

There’s a little triangle of land just the other side of the bridge from Hartshill Works that a mate used to rent from BW for £1 a year. He kept Mandy the goat on it and she kept the vegetation down. He got into the cut in a pair of swimming trunks and dug out sufficient silt to moor his 45ft narrowboat alongside (powered by a single cylinder Coventry Victor). One year BW decided to terminate his lease. The land now has brambles, nettles and other wild vegetation about 6ft high and just sits there as an eyesore. He was never offered an explanation. This was back in the 80’s. 

[aracer]

11 hours ago, WotEver said:

(powered by a single cylinder Coventry Victor)

The swimming trunks?

[WotEver]

26 minutes ago, aracer said:

The swimming trunks?

Yes, they were powerful trunks...