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Victor: Why so many sinkings?

AS YOU most likely can imagine, we have taken a great many photos over the 20 or so years we have been boating and even more gleaned by narrowboatworld in the 16 years of its publication.

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Published: 21 August 2016

When will the K&A pantomime end?

NOW its closed, now its open, now its closed, now its open, now its closed. When indeed will the pantomime that is the Kennet & Avon Canal end?

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Published: 20 August 2016

Email: Few visitors

I am a newcomer to your site, and reading through its many articles, discovered those about visitors—or should it be 'visits'—to the waterways, so on Wednesday put it to the test.

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Published: 19 August 2016

No vandals

I AGREE entirely with T. Lang about the lack of vandals on the canals these days, as we have seen none this year, writes Margaret Topham.

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Published: 19 August 2016

And still they sink

STILL another boat sunk in a lock—this time on the Lee Navigation, with it now closed, even though the lock is paired.

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Published: 18 August 2016

No vandals

I FEEL I should tell you that as far as vandals are concerned, our two months cruising  the waterways this year have been less stressful as far as vandals are concerned—there have not been any, writes T. Lang.

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Published: 18 August 2016

Brighouse Festival this weekend

THE annual canal festival at Brighouse on the Calder & Hebble Navigation takes place once again this weekend.
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Published: 18 August 2016

Email: More fencing?

Following the imposition of handrails on footbridges after a young hothead fell in whilst cycling over it in a no cycling area, and the erection of fences in Manchester to protect drunks falling into the locks, can we now expect posts with three ropes across them around locks to protect drunken drugged-up shadow boxers?

Don't get me wrong, any death by accident is tragic, but the Health & Safety knee-jerk reactions put the blame anywhere but where it ought to be.

CaRT is a captive ‘culprit' when it comes to implementing Coroner's verdicts, and are unfairly charged with having to attempt to control the actions of others who cannot, or choose not to take their own safety into their own hands.

Martin Howes

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Published: 17 August 2016

Vandalism or rotten wood?

TODAY'S waterway closure is on the Leicester Section  of the Grand Union Canal—Lock 3.

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Published: 17 August 2016

Boat eventually raised

THE narrowboat that sank in Fobney Lock (105) on the Kennet & Avon Canal over a week ago has now been raised and the waterway re-opened.

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Published: 17 August 2016

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