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| Friday, 09 May 2008 06:06 | ||||
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... access. I just walked by the gunpowder gorge section of the kent. On a hot sunny lunch time the rapis looked clean, the water sparkly and deep, with clear lines down all the drops without scraping, grade 2, and perfect for beginners. Some nice little ediies to make, gentle stoppers for learning skills, and deep enough to throw short boats around. Thge flowers were out anmd the wild garlic going large on the perfume. Number of fisherfolk? None. Disturbance level to human or animal if there were a group on there today? None. Why do we put up with this situation? In any other country it would be easy to imagine local clubs there teaching young people skills, developing both the sport and giving them something positive to do. Some environmental cleaning and awareness work in the process? There should be no conflict with fisherfolk. the 'problems' with access (spawning beds, busy fishing times, some privacy for residents) are easily solved once us boaters are granted the opportunity to be responsible . We should take on board lessons from history. Up the revolution :-)! Dumb laws should be changed. Comments (2)
  written by ned, June 11, 2008
yeah i agree with you, but what annoys me as that the sport cant move on untill the situation is resolved. The reality on the ground is that we cant have club huts, family fun days and organised events at present because of the current climate.
Maybe your right though that engaging with it makes it worse. I was just trying to envision a different world to aspire to cheers report abuse
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Until somebody takes action - in law - and there is a case brought against us for paddling, go do it. Attempts by the anti-paddling brigade are nothing but intimidation based on their biased view of a situation that has developed from assumption on their part rather than a clear legal basis. Our pleadings for a change in the law only serves to reinforce their view; to my knowledge nobody has cited any case law which says that we are commiting any kind of offence by paddling on a river (while observing any environmental protection issues).
Lets get on and enjoy our rivers and let those who don't want us to worry about citing laws to stop us rather than the other way around. As recently asked on the UKRGBS, do we need a law giving us permission to breath when there is nothing illegal in breathing to begin with?