FinesseChris
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Reged: 03/09/2001
Posts: 152
Loc: SW London, boat Dolphin Quay, ...
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Not sure I agree
03/04/2004 20:04
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My daughter has only been seasick once in four seasons sailing in my little wooden boat.
The cause was some clown in a Princeseeker or Sunsess or something big, white and three-storeyed. He opened the throttles as he exited Chichester on a Sunday afternoon. The resulting wash caused us to drop about eight feet into a hole and then corkscrew wildly. There was I, wrestling with the tiller and missing other yachts by too close a margin, there was my wife mopping up the cockpit, there was the 12-year-old, grey-green and miserable.
It was only when this Red Diesel compaign started that I put 2 and 2 together and realised that my passing clown had been burning untaxed fuel. We don't moor in a marina, and so we take our diesel on board in cans filled at the garage. So the price difference had never really struck me.
So as an RYA member I am expected to join in a campaign to subsidise the show-off we see every weekend.
I don't quite see the logic, or justice. And speaking for myself (and my family) if a cost increase causes a few people to think twice before opening the throttles, I would be quite content.
Sorry to go against the grain, and I don't think I have ever spoken out FOR a tax before, but once again where's the logic?
Best wishes
Chris
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