Moored boaters being passed by this idiot would be well within their rights to shout at the steerer of Grace from Napton Narrowboats to slow down as it wrecks the canal banks with its speed. There really is a need for engine limiting, for this one is far too powerful for these uncaring hirers.
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JULY 2014 was an important anniversary and I cannot understand how it passed me by without a big celebration. Yes it was the second anniversary of the formation of the Canal & River Trust, writes John Sloan.
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IT WOULD seem the comment by contributors that there is less vandal activity was somewhat premature, as Canal & River Trust have now had to close locks to navigation during evening and night.
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There seems to be a lot of criticism of enforcement officers for doing their job and trying to enforce the rules, writes David Hargreaves.
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THE speed whingers have featured often in narrowboatworld but when even the gentle John Dodwell is drawn to comment on the ignorant—and commonly rude—speed obsessives (Not-sailing-off-into-the-sunset) it is obviously time that these sad people were better educated on the subject, writes David Lyneham-Brown.
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THE boating season is now drawing to a close for the majority of the readers of narrowboatworld, and as a general observation, from my standpoint alongside the Staffs & Worcs. Canal, it has been a pretty good one, writes Orph Mable.
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THE moorers who are attempting to lay claim to a river bank at Oxford (Another attempt to grab river bank) are causing tensions amongst people living nearby.
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THE man who attacked a woman on the towpath of the Kennet & Avon at Fobney Lock in Reading (Woman in canal to escape knife attacker) has been caught and is now in custody.
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Currently on the southern stretch of the Staffs & Worcs, and as a single hander, finding some of it quite demanding. Gates and paddles in many locks could really do with some TLC and Stourport Basins have changed beyond recognition, writes Deborah Piekarski.
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WHILST applauding narrowboatworld editor, Tom Crossley, for publishing the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) rebuttal of the article 'Saying sorry is not enough', I wonder if readers have spotted the two differences between CaRT's response and its other narrowboatworld articles, asks Allan Richards.
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