Victor gets results!

ONCE again our Victor Swift has achieved results, and quickly too, as the hire boat Horizons, moored for 11 days on the 48 hours Gunthorpe moorings on the Trent, was moved yesterday within hours of Victor bringing it to  Canal & River Trust's notice.

We understand an urgent telephone call from a Trust's enforcement officer, Sunday notwithstanding, had the owners moving the boat onto its correct moorings as the picture shows.

Problems finding space

For those of you—us included—who have had problems finding space on the Gunthorpe moorings, it is because the hire company owning Horizons, also own other boats including Tranquillity, that use the 48 hours moorings to load and unload their clients and their baggage.

Tranquillity too was on the 48 hours moorings, but is now back yesterday with Horizon on its own moorings.

Not suitable

The problem of course is that the hire boats official mooring, shown by the mown grass in the picture, is not really suitable for loading and unloading clients, so the 48 hours moorings are used instead, and as was shown being left there for days on end.

Our informant tells us he is amazed that enforcement officer Stuart had never seen these boats on the pontoon and that no one else had ever complained. Or perhaps they have, and nothing was done.  He was referred to the Trust's Peter Moore, from whom an acknowledgement email is still awaited.

ADDENDUM

Our informant tells us that it was a good job that they moved their boats, as by dusk last night the pontoon was full again, with a GRP Cruiser running late all navigation lights ablaze who could not get onto the pontoon and had to moor on the wall near to the lock. As Victor pointed out there are not many places to moor on the Trent between Newark and Nottingham.