Two More Medway Boaters Fined

Medway_Squirrel2 said:
Copy of press release below:


http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...oaters-fined-over-invalid-registrations-10358


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Interesting that the fact the chap had no insurance is being highlighted.Having insurance is very important in my opinion not only because of obvious problems,such as hitting someone elses boat or maybe causing fire damage to adjacent craft, but should your boat sink,somebody has got to pick up the bill for salvage.
We now have small cabin cruiser boat being left to rot on the marsh near the Medway Bridge Marina after being bourne down by the current as a result of last years floods on the upper Medway.
Also a 40 ft boat sank while moored to the the pier just below RCC in Rochester last week,the boat,one of two or three which ,despite the prominent "No Mooring signs" had been left unattended there for some considerable time.,
Suspect it was only the fact that the Peel Port crew were attempting to refloat the wreck 24 hours a day with all the lights and noise, prompted the other boats to clear off elsewhere.
Its not as though there are no vacant spaces in local boatyards.....however they do not want livaboards.
 
oldgit said:
Its not as though there are no vacant spaces in local boatyards.....however they do not want livaboards.
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It's not that they don't want Liveaboards. They aren't allowed by Councils. I have a mooring available right now, nary a week goes by without a Liveaboard enquiry I just have to say 'sorry'
 
byron said:
It's not that they don't want Liveaboards. They aren't allowed by Councils. I have a mooring available right now, nary a week goes by without a Liveaboard enquiry I just have to say 'sorry'
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Understood..Suspect it may also have something to do with the investment required to store/remove sewage from any boatyard/marina able and willing to accomodate long term stayers.
However,would have thought on commercial basis,the return from gin palaces is going to far outstrip any possible income from livaboards.
 
This will be disturbing news for some non licenced boat owners in marinas on the Thames, who maintain that because they're not on the river they don't have to be licenced.
 
ArthurJStoatfondler said:
This will be disturbing news for some non licenced boat owners in marinas on the Thames, who maintain that because they're not on the river they don't have to be licenced.
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Very olde news !

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the backwater/cutt up with our English dead.
Verily we shall neer paye our river lisensse
Fore we float not apon ye Theaenes water but are but aparte......:)

Cue much wailing from defeated flagge wavers off stage left.
 
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oldgit said:
Very olde news !

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the backwater/cutt up with our English dead.
Verily we shall neer paye our river lisensse
Fore we float not apon ye Theaenes water but are but aparte......:)

Cue much wailing from defeated flagge wavers off stage left.
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Wot u tryin to do.....awake tt-wo :)
 
oldgit said:
Understood..Suspect it may also have something to do with the investment required to store/remove sewage from any boatyard/marina able and willing to accomodate long term stayers.
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Perhaps everyone should get a 2 million litre tank like all the narrowboat live aboards that never go anywhere from year to year to get pumped out.
 
Antony Collis said:
Perhaps everyone should get a 2 million litre tank like all the narrowboat live aboards that never go anywhere from year to year to get pumped out.
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Perhaps they are all like the Queen who never uses the Bog. Her Majesty just takes herself to a Pump Out Station once a year where they pump her out.
 
byron said:
Perhaps they are all like the Queen who never uses the Bog. Her Majesty just takes herself to a Pump Out Station once a year where they pump her out.
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If only - pump out, I mean.
'Most' of them have cassette loos and some (if not many) just dump their ordure into the Cut, slightly better ones may dump it in the hedge, the best trail the container to a sanitary station. But there are very few of these places around, so my guess is one of the other options.

Possibly not such a hideous problem on the Thames, but on the canal system, where's there's little water flow and wall to wall boats in some areas - is a disaster about to happen.
Perhaps a 21st. Century Bazalgette is needed.
 
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