If you haven't seen one.......

[boatone]

This is the sticker that is being put on boats if the inspector can't see a valid licence.

 

[Chris_d]

Someones not issuing those then, the document stuck on a boat next to mine was a typed letter signed by the patrol officer.

 

[Brayman]

Hopefully Tony (Boat One) has paid up now.

 

[boatone]

Someones not issuing those then, the document stuck on a boat next to mine was a typed letter signed by the patrol officer.

This sticker is what the EA call 'educational' . What you are referring to may be the signed enforcement notice which I haven't seen yet.

The sticker clearly says before 1st April which was the 'grace' period so I guess its enforcement notices from now on !

 

[Ramage]

I understand Reading are swamped with applications. They will not even discuss an application until 10 working days have elapsed from it's receipt.

A friend of mine waited the 10 days only to be told his application "must have gone astray in the post Sir".

Unfortunately for the EA he submitted it in person to their office so they cannot blame the Royal Mail.

Meanwhile, it seems they are still threatening him with legal action. I understand he may involve his MP.....

And of course he could not use his boat during the recent fine weather!

 

[Captain Coochie]

You can use your boat but you will have to fill out a form at the first lock to say you are unregestered and then get every lock keeper to sign that form . Looks like the lock keepers are going to be very busy with form filling aswell as operating the locks this weekend

So not only have they been swamped with applications they are now going to be swamped with the paperwork from the stickering police and swamped with unregestered forms from the lock keepers .
And thats what happens when you let the accountants run the show .

 

[Ramage]

First lock he came to would not sell him visitors licence as his boat is considered Thames based, and I understand he was told he should be reported.....

 

[mlines]

I am not sure that that sticker is 100% correct based on the term "used on river", visitors to the river are using the river and don't register, they just purchase a day/week/month licence. I guess its semantics but mine certainly doesn't display a registration plate as stated in the last but one paragraph, mine has a piece of paper on top of the dash.

As I use it mainly down at Poole and put it on the river less than 10 times a year then its going to stay a visitor. The other weekend the EA boat gave me a friendly wave without coming close enough to see the paperwork on the dash, I was the first visitor pass issued at Marsh Lock this year.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

I confess to having checked the size of that sticker against the cutout where I have taken the licence plate out to put on the boat. The sticker will cover the licence plate quite nicely.

Anyone want to play anarchist and discredit it by putting one over a valid licence plate?

Stop panicing in the back there, I'm not going to do it, but it did make me smile briefly at the prospect of a hurried check being made in the dark and the sticker being put on a boat where the valid licence was round the other side