How not to moor a narrowboat (2)

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Just encountered this incident again on YouTube, but this time as part of a global compilation...

https://youtu.be/-5CVjEZf-b8?t=17

And it's had 2,153,223 views. Whatever happened to that silly man?

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Condi said:

The narrowboat owner was a contributor to some boating magazine or another and had been a bit of a dick in the past from what I understand. Was dropped by the mag following this video being released.

He had the audacity to defend his actions too. A blustering arrogant cock, exactly the kind of person the waterways don't need.

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croyde said:

Scantily dressed women and Narrow boats. Now I have seen everything.

(Actually I have never seen that combination, what's the web address)

My waterway seems to be a bikini-free zone, regrettably.

RobbyJ said:

The guy is a bell for sure however I have a far bigger problem with all the freeloading off grid hippies that now seem to inhabit the Thames in vast numbers permanently mooring unlicensed boats everywhere.

Same here. All I have to do is not have my reg number on show and the EA trespass into the marina and slap a warning notice on the boat; next step a juicy fine. Those wastrels never display even a river licence, yet oddly the EA seems powerless. Win to the hippies, complete with ste on the bank and lemonade bottles of piss on the catwalk.

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RobbyJ said:

https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/The...

It sounds complicated (surprise surprise) when it really shouldn't be.

'Leighton Lewis was found guilty of breaching the Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010. He was fined £400, and ordered to pay costs of £85 and his outstanding boat registration fee of £186.39 for 1 January to 31 December 2019.'

But did he just add the CCJ to his collection and carry on I wonder?

Where does Nick Smith come into it?