Email: Low on priority

I have been completely away from the boating scene for the past few years, (out of the country) but my circumstances have changed and I will be joining a partner and taking delivery of a narrowboat come the 1st of April, though alas not a new one.

I of course came back with my introduction being narrowboatworld a few weeks ago (you included a couple of my emails in the past) but I was aghast at how what was then British Waterways has changed, as it seems the canals are low on the new company's list of priorities.

Everyone must realise that continuously cutting the cost spent on maintenance to spend on other things is no way to run the canals, as the increasing number of failures surely show.

I have the feeling that this new experience of the canals will not be as good as the last.

Jane Crowder