When must I move by?
Boats without a home mooring should not stay in one place for more than 14 days. Put in the day you arrived and this tells you the date that runs out.
The bit people get wrong
The clock runs from when you arrived, not from the last time you thought about it or shuffled the boat a few feet. Moving to the other side of a bridge, or a couple of hundred yards along the same visitor mooring, is generally treated as staying in the same place.
There is no published minimum distance for what counts as a new place. The test in practice is whether an ordinary person would say you had moved somewhere else.
If you have to stay longer
Genuine reasons exist — a breakdown, illness, or a stoppage blocking your route. The Trust expects to be told rather than to work it out from a sighting record, and a note of why you stayed is worth having later.
CruiseProof keeps this count for you across every mooring, warns you before you reach fourteen days, and turns the whole record into a document you can send when the Trust asks.
See what that document looks like →