Email: Wrong perspective

I think Simon Grindrod is coming at this from the wrong perspective.  (The mooring problem-8/9/12.)

The problem is surely that people decide to live on a boat because they think it will be cheaper than a house/flat etc. But what they do not take into account is the cost of mooring.

A continuous cruising licence means just that—continuous cruising. If people want to move on to a boat to live and work, they should ensure that they have a legitimate mooring for the boat which allows them to do that. It is not just the ones who sit on water points, 48 hours moorings etc. but the ones who moor up in the same place on the towpath for months on a continuous cruising licence.

If you take out a continuous cruising licence and do not have a home mooring, then the rules must be enforced, and you should be made to move on. By all means review the problem, but at the moment the rules are the rules and must be enforced to be fair to everyone.

Peter Foster