The residents of Bath

TAKING a cruise along the Avon at Bath, our Alan Tilbury had chance to photograph the 'residents' of the city on the Kennet & Avon Canal, with this one having its licence expired last December.

On 48 hours moorings

The other two boats pictured had no licences displayed, and all seemed very permanent on 48 hours moorings, as the weed growing on one fender can testify.

Perhaps instead of hounding boaters who are not only licenced but who have permanent moorings but upset enforcement officers by mooring at favourite places, Canal & River Trust should do something about these people who permanently take over 48 hours moorings, to the detriment of bona fide visiting boats to the city who can find nowhere to moor, depriving local traders of business.

Obviously unlicenced and overstaying, they are making fools of Canal & River Trust, who seem incapable of taking action, and such boats are not doing a great deal for the 'scenic tranquil waterways', it so likes to proclaim.

Then of course there are the rows of continuous moorers stretching out of the city towards Devizes...