"but to say the rise was unbudgeted points to the blind, the stupid or the ignorant."

A little harsh on me I think Jez considering that a) we have never even been introduced and b) I wasn't in this boating malarky 5 years ago so knew nothing about the background! So for me Jez it is unbudgeted - OK?

Just say your numbers are better than mine and I think they are and fuel is going to cost me 20% more next year and so on up for ever afterwards. You also note all the other fixed and variable costs which I also agree with and soon you are looking at close to Ł10000 out of taxable income to run a 10m boat in the Solent. Sure there are a lot of big spenders out there in their Sunseekers and Princesses and just don't care how much it costs to diesel up but they are not the majority.

So it is a behaviour changing tax increase and it is going to make a big difference to the boating community. It's clear that these tossers in the UK Government want to stiff us up bigtime and at the moment they call the shots...

Wake up boaters and smell the diesel...