WE WERE recently visited by the head of CaRT London Office after I had tweeted the National Volunteer Coordinator that CaRT did not seem interested to understand the Community Boaters' issues (we are affiliated to NCBA) and she put him in touch, writes Tony Bower.

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FOLLOWING its second failure to recruit ‘Friends' in anything like meaningful numbers (Chugging companies blamed again), Canal and River Trust (CaRT) is now recruiting a ‘Supporter Engagement Manager' to bolster its Individual Giving Team, writes Allan Richards.

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NOT a single one for five days, so no internet connection, then three arrive at once!
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FOLLOWING Allan Richards' initial query regarding the independence of the Ombudsman's scheme CaRT has come under further close scrutiny, writes Pam Pickett.

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TWO boaters on the Aire & Calder Navigation had no option but to leap off their boat with their dog when in caught fire. They could not get it into the side, so had no option but to go into the water, but luckily were picked up by the crew of a passing narrowboat, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Engine fire

As with the fire in the lock on the Ribble Link, it was the engine that caught fire, and the couple on board realising something was drastically wrong when they saw flames coming out. Again, the woodwork caught fire, and though the fire brigade attended and put out the fire, the boat was burnt out. The two on board both suffered in the fire, the woman from burns and the man from smoke inhalation and both were taken to hospital.

[Nothing to do with the above, but as the electricity people will be trimming the trees from the power lines that serve our premises, we will have no power for most of the day tomorrow (Friday), so updates could be few.]

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AFTER a boater fell off his narrowboat and drowned in Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal a coroner is calling for safety improvements including communications and life jackets.
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A BOAT fire in Lock 7 of the Ribble Link has closed the waterway since last weekend when it went up in flames and burnt out. Keith and Jennifer Riley were passing through the lock when their narrowboat caught fire, that was so intense that they could rescue nothing from it, but call the fire brigade that arrived and eventually doused the fire, Alan Tilbury tells us. Bookings cancelled Being the access to the Lancaster Canal the passage across the Ribble is tidal, so the Link in not operational every day but the bookings for Sunday and Monday, when it was, had to be cancelled whilst the boat was inspected, removed and the area cleaned up. It was the engine that started  to overheat, but then burst into flame, catching the woodwork, and before long the whole boat was an inferno, it taking 16 fire people two hours to completely put the fire out. Lost everything Keith and Jennifer have been boating for the past 18 years, mostly as liveaboards, having lived in a house for only three years during all that time, moving into their present boat 15 months ago, that was their home, which means they have now lost everything, but have received help from the Red Cross. The clean-up of the oil and debris has now been completed, with the boat taken from the lock and moored nearby awaiting removal, and the Link again open.
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I THOUGHT I'd seen most of the absurdities on the cut, but this week I came across a new one, writes John Howard.
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TWO perennial gripes amongst boaters are speed passing moored boats and dog poo on the towpath writes Peter Lloyd.
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I have just received a telephone call (Wednesday afternoon) from a boater who has been denied access to Gloucester on his boat, writes Amy Dickerson.

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