NABO and Broad Beam

[Ian Petchey]

I notice NABO "is supportive of beam becoming a factor in determination of
craft size".
I would imagine they have quite a few members with boats wider than
narrowboats (Including many DBA members - myself included). Maybe many will
not be renewing their membership!!

May be worth emailing their chairman (Stuart Samson) that you are not happy
with this decision. His email address is   stuart.s@...
 
Kind Regards
Ian Petchey
Elessina


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[Mike & Krystyna Wooding]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Petchey" <ipetchey@...>
To: <DBAMAIN@...>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:12 PM
Subject: DBAm: NABO and Broad Beam

>I notice NABO "is supportive of beam becoming a factor in determination of
> craft size".
> I would imagine they have quite a few members with boats wider than
> narrowboats (Including many DBA members - myself included). Maybe many
> will
> not be renewing their membership!!
>
> May be worth emailing their chairman (Stuart Samson) that you are not
> happy
> with this decision. His email address is   stuart.s@...
>

I resigned quite a while ago when I was their (first) webmaster, as at that
time I was becoming very disenchated with the direction they were taking and
the methods they were adopting to persue thoses directions

Mike

Mike and Krystyna Wooding
db Janna  http://www.janna.org.uk
nb Draco


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[Ian Petchey]

I Note that NABO have had a rethink and changed their policy on broad beam
boat licences. In a letter to BW they say:-

"After further deliberations and consultation, NABO feels it would be
inappropriate to recommend any surcharge based on craft beam at this stage,
and certainly not the simplistic £50 per boat wider than 2.1 metres."

Many thanks to those members writing to NABO about this. Not the end of the
issue, but good news.
 
Kind Regards
Ian Petchey
Elessina

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dbamain-bounces@...
> [mailto:dbamain-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Ian Petchey
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:12 PM
> To: DBAMAIN@...
> Subject: DBAm: NABO and Broad Beam
>
>
> I notice NABO "is supportive of beam becoming a factor in
> determination of craft size". I would imagine they have quite
> a few members with boats wider than narrowboats (Including
> many DBA members - myself included). Maybe many will not be
> renewing their membership!!
>
> May be worth emailing their chairman (Stuart Samson) that you
> are not happy
> with this decision. His email address is   stuart.s@...
>  
> Kind Regards
> Ian Petchey
> Elessina
>
>
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[Mike & Krystyna Wooding]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Petchey" <ipetchey@...>
To: <DBAMAIN@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: DBAm: NABO and Broad Beam


I Note that NABO have had a rethink and changed their policy on broad beam
boat licences. In a letter to BW they say:-

"After further deliberations and consultation, NABO feels it would be
inappropriate to recommend any surcharge based on craft beam at this stage,
and certainly not the simplistic £50 per boat wider than 2.1 metres."

That's typical NABO though, still on the fence and not entirely objecting to
the idea

Mike

Mike and Krystyna Wooding
db Janna  http://www.janna.org.uk
nb Draco


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[Pete Milne]

There's a long discussion of this topic on the canalworld forum (
http://tinyurl.com/46wvkc ) which largely gives a narrowboat view of the
debate, with some interesting points.  By and large most contributors seem
to agree that footprint shouldn't be the basis for charging but length is
not unreasonable.
Pete

2008/9/25 Mike & Krystyna Wooding <mikeandkrystyna@...>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Petchey" <ipetchey@...>
> To: <DBAMAIN@...>
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: DBAm: NABO and Broad Beam
>
>
> I Note that NABO have had a rethink and changed their policy on broad beam
> boat licences. In a letter to BW they say:-
>
> "After further deliberations and consultation, NABO feels it would be
> inappropriate to recommend any surcharge based on craft beam at this stage,
> and certainly not the simplistic £50 per boat wider than 2.1 metres."
>
> That's typical NABO though, still on the fence and not entirely objecting
> to
> the idea
>
> Mike
>
> Mike and Krystyna Wooding
> db Janna  http://www.janna.org.uk
> nb Draco
>
>
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