Anti-social moorers

I BELIEVE the great problem with lack of mooring space is that many boaters are anti-social and do not want to be too close to other boats, writes, James Henry.

I had the opportunity to meet the editor of narrowboatworld this summer, meeting on Sawley Cut, and the moorings there are a prime example, with boats instead of tying boat to boat on the same ring, always seem to moor two or three rings away, making sure that there is not enough space for another boat to slip in between.

No mooring space

He told me that mooring on the Cut there, though there is always plenty of space in the winter months it often being empty, the holiday periods are a different matter, with often the boats so moored that though there could be space they were such a distance apart there was no mooring space left.

As we are informed that Cart has many enforcers on the canals, surely these could be used to 'politely' instruct boaters to 'move-up' to make space for others, especially as there is now such a lack of mooring space on the canals.