WOULDN'T it make more sense to employ lengthsmen/lock keepers/engineering staff on a full time basis and outsource or use volunteers for the heritage/wildlife/environmental/PR/office jobs? Asks Ralph Freeman.
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THE fitting of tracking devices is a double edged sword. The first is that I would find it an intrusion into my privacy, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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Before everybody starts getting excited about this idea [trackers in boats], which I thought was initially a tongue in cheek comment, think on about the really big project awaiting universally fitted trackers.
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BOATERS using damp wood and logs in their stoves could be risking a triple whammy including increased costs, stove damage and carbon monoxide poisoning, Rob McLean of the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) writes.
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THE day after narrowboatworld (Still looking into the hole) stated that silence still surrounded Canal & River Trust's closure of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Dutton, an update was eventually published.
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I WOULD join you in having a tracker fitted but there would have to be conditions. It must not be the only thing that defines mooring times, distances travelled etc writes Keith Gudgin.
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I FULLY agree with Peter's suggestion that every licenced boat on the system should have a tracker fitted. To quote the words of a prime minister 'anyone who has a problem with that, has a problem'.
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THOUGH we often have cars in our waterways, this time a loaded articulated lorry has overturned into the Montgomery Canal near Abermule.
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AT LAST Canal & River Trust have blamed lack of maintenance as the reason for a lock failure on the Staffs & Worcs at Kinver.
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HAVING read narrowboatworld over the years, a continuous pattern emerges. First we hear about the state of the system and the lack of maintenance. As the boating season starts, we hear about continuous cruisers, overstaying moorers, speeding boaters, licence dodgers and cyclists, writes Peter Ponting.
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