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Anybody know the area....posh marina or scuffy boatyard..wonder if they are members of any of the well known and much respected established Thames boat clubs?
 
oldgit said:
Anybody know the area....posh marina or scuffy boatyard..wonder if they are members of any of the well known and much respected established Thames boat clubs?
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Tut, tut. Heaven forfend that any Thames boat club should have such a member.
Disgraceful!

It beggars belief that after several warnings (after all EA take great care to get folks to pay - as it costs them less in the long term) such peeps still don't pay.

Perhaps I'm from the wrong generation and pay up for whatever when due. Still if someone genuinely says I owe them money - and I know that I blurry well do, then I pay up.

Perhaps I'm missing a trick. (not really, the ensuing hassle is not worth a bucket load of candles)

Generation gap?

The bloke in front of me got done a while ago in spite of being told to get licenced, but ignored it. Cost him more in the end. Daft B***r. He's gone, so's the boat.

You can't litter the roads with broken cars, so why should the waterways be any different?
 
I've made an early New years resolution; not to take the p** out of the Clubbies, it's only in jest - they are of course the good guys and pay and support the navigation.
As for the assembled great unwashed from the Tedders squat and other random squats upstream throughout the Navigation and in marinas I give the EA and legal teams my full support and thanks.
The other issue which needs to be addressed is the unlawful dumping of sewage into the navigation, primarily, but not exclusively by live aboards.
 
Deep Pockets Short Arms.

Just wonder when the eststablished clubs last sent out a circular encouraging ALL their members including those in private cuts/backwaters/and "other works", prompting payment of EA licence .
Wonder how many "licence deniers" are active members of ATYC ?
Judging from the active hostility of some groups according to a certain publication,quite a few!
 
dash300 said:
The other issue which needs to be addressed is the unlawful dumping of sewage into the navigation, primarily, but not exclusively by live aboards.
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It's a general problem on all waterways.
On some EA waters the pumpouts are free but not on the Thames (even so the charges are very reasonable). My beef on the River that the equipment is not reliable - more importantly it takes ages to get things fixed. At Shiplake this year the valve at the end of the hose broke and it took two weeks plus to get it fixed. The item is available ex stock from that nice Mr. Coburn. Beurocratic inertia....

Of course having lots of kit around wont stop people dumping their output anyway.

I have no practical solution.
 
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