mooring - a post script

Sandie the mooring officer came to see me today. The very good news is that BW is refunding my mooring fees between 8th December and 1st March. Not only that but they have reduced my mooring fees for the next three years as they judge this mooring to be worth less than than the amount I was paying for the auctioned mooring. The difference is just over £300 a year!!!

The not such good news is that the owner of one of the boats I moved has made a complaint. Apparantly he is complaining about having to move at all, rather than the fact that I moved his boat rather than BW. He apparantly has visited his boat and hasn't touched the way I tied it up, so he obviously hasn't got a problem with that. He just thinks that someone else should have moved rather than him! Sandie said I shouldn't worry about it. It is clear in the mooring agreement that BW can request boats be moved at any time. She also said she would back my actions as I had waited a reasonable amount of time before taking action.

I'm really glad I did take action as it seems that neither of the boat owners were planning to move their boats any time soon and I could have been sitting on visitors moorings for months more!! It's just a shame that I seem to have a stroppy neighbour - I hope when I meet him, I can build bridges, so that we can get on.

But the best thing is that both Bonny and I absolutely love our new mooring!
Lastly a message to the nice person leaving comments about my blog. I love to hear from you, but unfortunately I can't read Chinese - if that indeed is the language you are writing in!