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Email: Dependent on charity

I think Simon Greer is more than a little harsh in his description. Firstly, CaRT is the body dependent on charity to maintain the waterway network. It has too little money to do that effectively.
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Published: 14 May 2014

A New contributor

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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Published: 14 May 2014

BCNS Explorer Cruise—day three

DAY three of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Explorer Cruise and onto Pelsall Common, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 13 May 2014

Day boat named after cancer victims

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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Published: 12 May 2014

Sunken Springer closes Tinsley Flight

A SUNKEN narrowboat in a lock has closed the Tinsley Flight on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.

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Published: 12 May 2014

A cautionary tale...

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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Published: 12 May 2014

Algae reduced on Basingstoke

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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Published: 12 May 2014

Tough enforcement at Stratford

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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Published: 12 May 2014

Brownhills Canal Festival

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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Published: 12 May 2014

Email: Charityless charity

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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Published: 12 May 2014

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