Licence fee increases next year

Eh? We've been paying for CRT licences since Summer 2014 when we took over the boat. There's no need for a CRT licence at the moment, as we're parked in a marina where a CRT licence is not required.

I think it's past your bedtime.

What's the point of buying a C&RT Licence for a boat which only needs a Pleasure Boat Certificate (a registration certificate for PRN river waterways) due to being based on a C&RT river waterway, and with no prospect of returning to the C&RT controlled broad canals in the Northeast in the foreseeable future ?

I've heard that if you take your licence out of the window and place it on the stern deck for three weeks, it turns into a new licence.

So, why are you buying a boat Licence, which you don't need, instead of the PBC which you do need ?

why are you not buying a pbc?
Oh yes I remember, because your as tight as the proverbial camels arse in a sand storm.

Until now I hadn't realized that you were part of a community so well versed in all the waterway related legislation that has gone onto the statute book since the first of the British Waterways Acts in 1971. You should count yourself fortunate in having almost half a Century's worth of knowledge and first hand experience from which to draw when commenting on such matters.

I, on the other hand, have had little to no opportunity to gain such valuable knowledge and insight. From 1964 to my involuntary retirement from operating commercial carrying vessels in 2013 when the Trent gravel trade ceased, my working life was taken up in operating and/or maintaining commercial vessels on, amongst the other independently owned or controlled waterways, the canals and river navigations that came under every one of all the British Waterways Acts from the first in 1971 to the last in 1995, and all the secondary legislation - Byelaws and boat Licences - that accompanied those enactments.

What were you and the others of your ''more intelligent and educated'' community of relatively recent newcomers to the inland waterways doing during this period which enabled you all to acquire the rare and specialized knowledge that leads you to believe that C&RT come even close to being a competent and honest navigation authority, and that this so-called 'Trust' isn't conning and fleecing all those gullible to accept or believe anything they do, say, or claim ?