Rudolph Hooker -- Online Moorings
AV Marinas(2010)PLC is concerned that, having finally got a decent marina on the Shroppie (at Wheaton Aston), a year on it's still almost empty. However, the miles of online moorings remain. The reason is, of course, cost. The cost of a marina berth is 3 times that of an online mooring.
Could this be why all the AV "Slow Moored Boats" signs have disappeared recently? A friend of mine in the hire business has heard on the grapevine that secretly AV hopes online moorers will get fed up with boats speeding by and go into the marina. My informant suggested that the partially AV owned hire company CanalShare is encouraging its hirers to ignore moored boats as well.
I myself became suspicious when certain AV friendly magazines such as Canal World have carried articles proclaiming speeding is not a problem if you moor up tight. Do I detect the work of Hugh Baton here ?
Could this be why all the AV "Slow Moored Boats" signs have disappeared recently? A friend of mine in the hire business has heard on the grapevine that secretly AV hopes online moorers will get fed up with boats speeding by and go into the marina. My informant suggested that the partially AV owned hire company CanalShare is encouraging its hirers to ignore moored boats as well.
I myself became suspicious when certain AV friendly magazines such as Canal World have carried articles proclaiming speeding is not a problem if you moor up tight. Do I detect the work of Hugh Baton here ?
