Email: Don't hang us all with the same noose

I myself am one of the 'no lot', but I am not a continuous moorer as the phrase goes, I have a home mooring on the Caldon Canal.

My objection to this overstay charge is that if a 24 hour mooring is very quiet then I will stay longer if it is a nice spot; I have never been moved on by a bailiff, nor asked to leave by another boater (although I have been Ignored by some boaters, presumably because I own a scruffy boat, but that's another tale).

When this rule is spread nation wide, as we all know it will be, then it will spoil the canals for all of us. I realise with reading the columns that there is a real problem, but what I am trying to say is that not all the 'no's' are 'fee dodging', 'anti-social', 'drug taking', 'alcoholic', 'noisy', 'uncivilised party animals' '...who no doubt have never done a days work in their lives and never contributed one penny to CaRT'.

Phrases that were used by reading between the lines of the many letters on this website. Some of us just want to live our lives peacefully on the canals and respect fellow boaters and other canal users without having to constantly look over our shoulders.

Dave Comer, Nb Fat dog & Squirt.