Email: Racked off

Pam Pickett has set up an Aunt Sally. I know of no 'leisure cruisers' who object to genuine continuous cruisers (and seriously doubt if CaRT objects either).

They keep the waterways open, keep the facilities in use through the year (unless iced in) and provide a service to fellow boaters and gongoozlers alike.

I know of an awful lot of leisure cruisers, me included, who are racked off by continuous moorers who claim to be continuously cruising but don't. They are either permanently moored in places they shouldn't be or else play the silly game of shifting every fortnight between two or three adjacent villages or suburbs, so that they can readily drive to their friends, usual pubs or workplace.

People like these are resident on the cut but don't pay their share of community costs. They wreck roadside verges with their parked cars (or more usually battered old vans) as they make their journeys to water points to fill up jerrycans, or take their loo cassettes hither and thither. They want the beauty of the cut but on the cheap, because the rest of us are subsidising them.

If over the next couple of years CaRT can sort this lot out (after the recent High Court ruling it has the tools) the biggest gripe on the waterways will be removed, and goodwill should be readily available.

David Collins, nb Sirenetta