Nick wrote:We are used to our right to roam and anchor at will up here
Yet, when Bill Cowie started to charge for anchoring in "Acarsaid Mor" and allegedly threatened to fill the place with moorings you were right behind him. (Although IIRC the charge turned out not be for Anchoring after all, but for use of his slipway.)
As you say, the charge was £1 a night for the use of the slipway and fresh water, politely requested and almost universally ignored. It was not a charge for anchoring. There was never any question of limiting access to the island to paying guests only, which seems to be what Sanda's owners had in mind and would still like to implement.
I don't see these as related issues, even if you do.
Nick wrote:As you say, the charge was £1 a night for the use of the slipway and fresh water, politely requested and almost universally ignored.
So you used the facilities, and then ignored a polite request for a nominal charge for doing so?
Is that correct? Or did I interpret your response incorrectly?
jim.r wrote:
So you used the facilities, and then ignored a polite request for a nominal charge for doing so?
Is that correct? Or did I interpret your response incorrectly?
Apparantly interpreted my response incorrectly.
We put £1 each into the honesty box on Rona and were happy to do so. For that we got a place to tie the dinghy up, easy access to the shore, fresh water if we needed it and (of course) the right to roam over the island as we pleased.
Rona has the feel of a dynamic place that is a developing a viable economy - it is not a museum. Sanda is now a Swiss millionaire's private playground. I really don't see that the two islands have much in common.
Aye, I wrecked my dredger on Sanda in 1891 and an even more distant ancestor accompanied Robert the Bruce there, and Rona Fraser wiz my first wee girldriend at Primary school...
jim.r wrote:Aye, I wrecked my dredger on Sanda in 1891 and an even more distant ancestor accompanied Robert the Bruce there, and Rona Fraser wiz my first wee girldriend at Primary school...
jim.r wrote:Aye, I wrecked my dredger on Sanda in 1891 and an even more distant ancestor accompanied Robert the Bruce there, and Rona Fraser wiz my first wee girldriend at Primary school...
Is that the same Rona Fraser from the islands, now a member of the Inchinnon Cruising Club?
C_W
jim.r wrote:
So you used the facilities, and then ignored a polite request for a nominal charge for doing so?
Is that correct? Or did I interpret your response incorrectly?
Apparantly interpreted my response incorrectly.
We put £1 each into the honesty box on Rona and were happy to do so. For that we got a place to tie the dinghy up, easy access to the shore, fresh water if we needed it and (of course) the right to roam over the island as we pleased.
Rona has the feel of a dynamic place that is a developing a viable economy - it is not a museum. Sanda is now a Swiss millionaire's private playground. I really don't see that the two islands have much in common.
Have you been to either of them Jim?
I contacted the Access officer from Argyll regarding the Sanda access denial and the notice on the wall, and they got in touch with the owner and made him aware of his situation regarding the right to roam etc.
So lets hope his attitude is somewhat more agreeable to our intentions when we next go to Sanda.
C_W
I contacted the Access officer from Argyll regarding the Sanda access denial and the notice on the wall, and they got in touch with the owner and made him aware of his situation regarding the right to roam etc.
So lets hope his attitude is somewhat more agreeable to our intentions when we next go to Sanda.
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