2020 Tolls

[smitch6]

i gather everyone has their tolls invoice today via email.

did everyone else go  at the prices this year......

extortionate is a word that springs to mind, mine is just over £350 which is loads more than my car and i use my car a lot more than the boat...

[marshman]

What percentage increase was it, compared to last years toll?

Did you realistically expect it to go down?

[JennyMorgan]

19 minutes ago, marshman said:

Did you realistically expect it to go down?

I would expect it to go down next year as the new 24hr mooring in Oulton Dyke is a one off expenditure being charged to this year's toll'. 

Smitch6, just add up all your annual boating costs, work out how many days use you have, divide one into the other and then go seek solace down the Sailors Home! 

[MauriceMynah]

I would never expect the price of the tolls to go down as there will always be "one off" expenses. I have no objection to this, it's just part of life. Government bodies, Quangos and councils will always spend the money in questionable and wasteful ways  I have no objection to this, it's just part of life.

What does make me raise an eyebrow in outrage is when these rises are given stupid and illogical justifications, like loading the diesel engines in the name of Green tax. This is just "band waggon jumping".

So oh fine Doctor, if you want more money then tell is why and don't hide behind ridiculous excuses. 

[MauriceMynah]

Just to add, My toll has increased by roughly 2.82%. I can live with that.

[vanessan]

Based on our average number of days afloat each year, I calculate our toll as around £4 per day. Good value to my way of thinking. 

[marshman]

Do you expect them to reduce salaries too, Peter, and reduce reduce dredging  and weed cutting, and Rangers services?

Just see it as a relatively cheap way of relaxing and enjoy!!!!!

[Ray]

£16.87 per day based on last years trips.

I need to get out more!

[Bluebell]

About £4 per day as well, based on last year, a bit more per day based on this year so far (since Jan) but I'm blaming the weather

Hoping to make up for lack of boat time soon.

[Lulu]

£378 last year, £391 this year so based on last year £4.82 per day for us

[Ray]

This years Toll is £405.42 for a  9.02m by 3.26m boat, so that sounds about right I thought though that we had been out quite a few times last year... will double check, hang on a minute.

..............

27 days actually out on the rivers = £15 per day, a bit better than my first estimate but I intend to get a return more in line with all you guys this year!

[OldBerkshireBoy]

10 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:

Just to add, My toll has increased by roughly 2.82%. I can live with that.

Canal and river trust was I believe the same at 2.9%.

[Smoggy]

2 hours ago, Ray said:

This years Toll is £405.42 for a  9.02m by 3.26m boat,

I paid about that for a similar sized boat on the gt.ouse back in 2011 and that didn't include the stretch of the cam into cambridge, for quite a bit of the time the river was closed due to flood drainage through the locks, and for a while nav was restricted between the two non tidal bits (the middle of the system) due to lack of water.

I don't moan about the broads tolls!

I won't even try to work out my daily rate as last year we spent most of our boaty holidays not even on the broads as we went coastal.

[Ray]

Yes, no complaint about the toll, just want more hours cruising 👍

[BroadAmbition]

Yep, received ours today too,  just a tad under 3% rise for us as well.  I can live with that I suppose.

Last years crewed up days onboard 'B.A' was our lowest yet since we recommissioned her back in 2007.  That worked out at £8:49 per day for the toll alone, our best year that I have records to hand for was 2017 - £4:63 per day for the toll used.  Need to get out more and we will this year.  2019 was an annus horribilus for us at this hovel, particularly for me and MrsG.

Griff

[RumPunch]

2.9% on a 23' yacht, 0.15% on a 14' sailing dinghy

[MauriceMynah]

That's fair enough in my book RumPunch, Dinghies have been paying 'over the odds' for decades IMAO

[Oddfellow]

I have written a blog about this:

https://freedomcruisers.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-toll-for-puddle-marchers.html

Comments here and particularly on the blog are welcome. 

 

[marshman]

Good blog - not going to argue with that otherwise I would not be still running a boat!! As they say, its the enjoyment that counts!!!!

[floydraser]

24 minutes ago, FreedomBoatingHols said:

I have written a blog about this:

https://freedomcruisers.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-toll-for-puddle-marchers.html

Comments here and particularly on the blog are welcome. 

 

Thanks Andy, a very interesting and balanced view.

[Smoggy]

Got mine through now, £435, that's £135 less than a gt.ouse/cam licence with all the lock closures and weed problems that occur there, and far bigger lack of dredging than the broads. (about £16 of the EA licence is the add on for the few miles of cam into cambridge)

I'm not moaning about the broads cost.