MY CONTACT in the hire boat business tells me that CaRT's panicky appeal for funds after the winter floods led to a 40% drop in bookings across the industry, which had been going quite well.
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Regarding Tie up and Shut up! Most of the anti social morons who shout, I wouldn't mind betting, are the same idiots who tie up with one rope bow and stern, and also the centre rope on the roof.
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I have been a lover of our inland waterways for over 40 years as an angler, hirer, boat builder, share boat manager and private owner and it saddens me that some of the pleasantness and courtesy that we would once offer each other without question and take for granted, seems to have been gradually evaporating over the last few years.
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I think Keith Gudgin is expecting too much from Volly Lockies. In my experience—three to four weeks boating annually for the last 25+ years—a BW lock keeper helping me through his (or her) lock was unusual. Helping me through a flight was unheard of.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has scrapped its plans to introduce Roving Mooring Permits at two locations on 1st April 2014, writes Allan Richards. It cites legal issues which have raised doubts about the practical implications of implementing the scheme.
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WHILST so much has been written with regard to the Pillings débâcle, at this late stage I have to begin with my concern for those, should the marina be closed, caught between the Trust and Pillings—the boaters, writes Pam Pickett.
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THE Managing Director of British Waterways Marinas Ltd, (BWML) Derek Newton is leaving his position, telling us he has 'decided to call it a day and make way for new thinking'.
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CHANNEL 4 is screening the first episode of a new canal documentary on Monday that perhaps will be somewhat better that the normal ones we have suffered, as it features actual boaters.
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Volunteer Lock Keepers—Volly Lockies—as they shall be known, are indeed a rare bird on the the waterways, writes Keith Gudgin.
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