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Pillings reduce capacity

TO ENABLE Pillings Lock Marina to work with the cost of its Network Access Agreement (NAA) it has been forced to reduced its number of berths.

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Published: 09 April 2014

Treated as continuous cruisers

A NUMBER of contributors have complained recently about being regarded and treated in the same way (that is, being sanctioned in various unwelcome ways by CART) as continuous cruisers, despite having a registered home mooring, writes Suzanne MacLeod.

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Published: 09 April 2014

Big clean-up

WITH the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) becoming very difficult to navigate through so much rubbish tipped into the waterways, there had to be a big clean-up.

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Published: 09 April 2014

Email: Will the discount continue?

I have no wish to be involved in adverse comments, or not, regarding Sally Ash and her departure.

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Published: 04 April 2014

Email: Different shouter

I met a different type of speed complainer last week on the Ashby Canal. He was walking slowly along, nearly twice the speed I was travelling, carrying a newspaper and smartly dressed.

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Published: 02 April 2014

David: Effects of CaRT Appeal

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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Published: 02 April 2014

Email: Learn the ropes

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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Published: 31 March 2014

Email: In wrong environment

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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Published: 28 March 2014

Email: Drunken boaters abroad too

Alcohol and driving whatever vehicle does not mix, that's for sure. Sadly enough, we see this happening every summer here in the Netherlands.
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Published: 21 March 2014

Email: Expecting too much

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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Published: 10 March 2014

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