Email: Breaking the rules

Simon Grindrod is convinced that a lot of boaters agree with his assumption that it's okay that 'a high proportion of boaters are having(?) to break the rules'.

I feel he would be surprised to find out just how many of his fellow boaters don't agree with this; and no one is making them break the rules, they are choosing to do so. If they bought a boat without being aware that they needed a mooring, they should have looked into things a little more, and if they knew about the moorings and chose to ignore it, that's their choice!

Simon needs to be aware that the vast majority of boaters who pay for both a licence and a mooring resent his spurious attitude regarding the level of support for continuous moorers, and the idea that the rules should be changed to suit the people who choose not to pay for a mooring is crass in the extreme.

We the (usually) silent majority of boaters/end users do not want the rules changed to suit those who want to moor where they like and for nothing—pay up or start looking for that alternative, alternative lifestyle.

Graham Westgate