WE TAKE pleasure in welcoming boater John Howard as a regular contributor to narrowboatworld, a boater who has already contributed various articles, his latest pointing out the missed opportunity of CaRT to use the Napton stoppage as PR.
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DAY three of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Explorer Cruise and onto Pelsall Common, writes Keith Gudgin.
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THE new day boat at Pillings Marina on the Soar has recently had her naming ceremony as Jo-Anne, named after two previous moorers at the marina.
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A SUNKEN narrowboat in a lock has closed the Tinsley Flight on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.
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I KNOW there are many boaters out there who do not perceive a problem with steering from the counter on a 'trad' boat; I suppose we are all entitled to our own opinions and preferences but...
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THE blue green algae that appeared on the Basingstoke Canal has reduced, with the Basingstoke Canal Authority now allowing all boats on the waterway, Graham Clutton, Vice Chairman, Accessible Boating tells us.
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IT WOULD appear that commercial boats operating on the Avon have been causing problems around Stratford, with the Avon Navigation Trust bringing in drastic new rules to curb them.
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ONCE again the Brownhills Canal Festival will be taking place on the on the Wyrley and Essington Canal at Silver Street.
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I'd like publicly to thank Victor Swift for his compliment re my coining of the phrase, CaRT the charity-less charity. Making boaters homeless.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) admits that almost 40% of the 2,000 miles of waterways it maintains has long lengths of waterway walls or bank protection that is either collapsed or close to life expired, writes Allan Richards.
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