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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 12, 2018 16:41:03 GMT
Not sure about that but there is an "uplift" on mooring and license fees if you do it by the book and more technical BS scheme inspection too. Quite likely CRT are happy with it if they are getting more money. I don't really understand why they don't put there own boats on residential moorings and rent them out. Oops I shouldn't have said that !! Have you seen crt's boats? they have problems maintaining there maintenance fleet let alone livaboards. I saw a CRT maintenance boat at Brighouse 2 weeks ago pumping out blue smoke from the exhaust, obviously engine pistons/piston rings/piston liners well worn. How they get away with this with strict environmental pollution regulations is beyond me. The engine was running for hours, the boat went nowhere. Two days in a row.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 12, 2018 16:43:31 GMT
The text which NigelMoore posted does not appear to show any request for payment so -in theory- the boat is not in fact being rented out the owner is simply looking for a caretaker for 6 months 'continuous cursing' struck me as a serendipitously amusing and yet potentially apt one. Cursing every time they come to a water tap to find there's another boat been tied up there, and all the neighbouring boats say he's been there for 2 months...
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 12, 2018 16:46:02 GMT
I can neither be bothered to try finding it again, nor interested in causing potential trouble for them. It was, however, definitely a rental offer; I looked at it because the cheap price caught my eye [not that I have any intent or need to rent a boat]. I posted it purely because the typo rendering 'continuous cruising' as 'continuous cursing' struck me as a serendipitously amusing and yet potentially apt one. ( required to move every 2 weeks or so). If they've found a loophole, good on them - lawyers seek these all the time and get away with it, as do tax-evaders. All perfectly legal.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 12, 2018 17:28:44 GMT
To answer my own question, there is apparently a new type of CRT licence for boats rented out long-term. "The response came in the form of a Press Release apparently welcoming the “Canal and River Trust’s (CRT) decision to launch a new type of licence to meet the needs of narrowboat renters”. It quoted Paul Morris, saying: “The decision by CRT to launch the new rental licence represents a welcome answer to the ongoing issues surrounding long-term narrowboat rentals. “There is a growing demand for this service and this new licence represents a chance for people to rent narrowboats and likewise owners to rent out their boats, with both parties able to do so within a safe and secure framework. “Nature abhors a vacuum and where legitimate legislation fails to provide an answer, the black market fills the gap. This new rental licence gives clarity to all parties and will hopefully put an end to the ‘boat lords’ renting out sub-standard, unsafe boats and expecting large amounts of money in return for no guarantees of security of tenure.” www.thefloater.org/the-floater-july-2017/boat-buy-to-let-and-rent-to-buy-services-take-rental-to-a-new-level
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Post by NigelMoore on Mar 12, 2018 18:58:52 GMT
To answer my own question, there is apparently a new type of CRT licence for boats rented out long-term. . . . “There is a growing demand for this service and this new licence represents a chance for people to rent narrowboats and likewise owners to rent out their boats . . . I find it peculiar that the rental licence is supposedly new/distinct from hire-boat licences. Where is the distinction? As far back as 1971 when the first mandatory registration requirements were brought in [and later tied into the licensing scheme as a necessary means of equating classes of boats vis-à-vis the charges], a statutory classification and distinction was made between “private pleasure boats” and “hire pleasure boats”. The charges back then were fixed by the statute, and the proportion of the fee levels ranged from a little under 25% extra for a hire pleasure boat compared to the same size private pleasure boat, to a little more than double. Amusingly, in the version as published by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, one size of hire pleasure boat was hit with a gargantuan discrepancy compared to others. The cost of an annual registration for a private pleasure boat “exceeding 70 feet but not exceeding 80 feet in length” was £20.00; the cost for the same size hire pleasure boat was £4,000! Any owner of that size boat would have done well to stick on a few extra inches to take it into the next category, whereupon the annual charge would have dropped to £48.
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