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Email: Meet half way

I have every sympathy with any boater towing a butty, or other boat. I have met many, sometimes in awkward situations and have done some towing myself.

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Published: 17 May 2014

Holme Lock finally repaired

HOLME Lock on the Trent below Nottingham, that has been closed since March for repairs, opens tomorrow, Saturday, once more allowing passage of boats to and from the North East.

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Published: 16 May 2014

Comment on winter stoppages

THE Canal & River Trust is inviting boaters to comment on its draft winter stoppages programme for 2014/15.

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Published: 16 May 2014

Sound signals

Louise Moore is right to warn people about the extra consideration that needs to be given to a boat towing another, writes Chris Pink.
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Published: 16 May 2014

BCNS Explorer Cruise—day six

DAY six and on to Tipton Green on the Birmingham Canal Navigation Society Explorer Cruise, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 16 May 2014

Association of Continuous Cruisers crisis

THE future of the Association of Continuous Cruisers (ACC) is in doubt following a mass resignation of its founding members, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 16 May 2014

CaRT to publish Judicial Review documents

THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) states it will publish today (15 May 2014) court documents relating to the judicial review of its ‘Guidance for Boaters without a home mooring' (Justice Lewis slams ‘Guidance'), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 15 May 2014

BCNS Explorer Cruise—day five

Day five of the Explorer Cruise and a short trip to Moorcroft Junction, Keith Gudgin writes.

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Published: 15 May 2014

That cautionary tale

I HAVE been banging on about not standing on the counter for years, I tell all my Helmsman training students, and tell them not to get behind the tiller even on a cruiser stern, writes Linda Andrews of Cheshire Cat Training.

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Published: 15 May 2014

Out comes the sunken boat

FOR many weeks there has been a sunken boat at Rickmansworth on the Grand Union Canal, with many complaining as it was taking up mooring space for the coming festival, but nothing was done, Peter Lloyd tells us.

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Published: 15 May 2014

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