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Marinas not profitable

A REPORT produced for a marina owner shows that only 48 of the country's marina operators are trading at a profit with 77 showing signs of failing and 45 currently up for sale at a loss on their original capital investment, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 03 January 2013

Saved by smoke alarm

ONE boater was 'lucky' when his boat caught fire in respect that it had a working smoke alarm installed, that perhaps saved his life.

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Published: 02 January 2013

About-turn on cyclists

FROM years of encouraging cyclists to use the Regents Canal towpath, Canal & River Trust have at last realised that the speeding cyclists are dangerous, so are now telling them to use the roads instead.

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Published: 02 January 2013

Starting to dawn

THERE are at last signs that what the rest of us have been saying for months, since the council election nominees were announced in fact, is starting to dawn on others, writes Graham Phillips.
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Published: 02 January 2013

Email: Reward for failure

Once again the New Years Honours list contains plenty of civil servants and MPs, one of these is Margaret Beckett MP.

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Published: 02 January 2013

Email: Value to the system

There is a value to the system from regular users, mostly making sure things work, and are reported if they don't.

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Published: 02 January 2013

Still waiting

RALPH Freeman's latest piece where, in his last paragraph, he reckons the enforcement johnnies appear to have been instrumental in his troubles, only serves to remind me that their supposed manager, Paul Griffin, has still not answered my questions, posed earlier on here, writes John Wilkinson.

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Published: 02 January 2013

Give it a rest!

OVER the past weeks narrowboatworld has been literally crammed with opinions about continuous cruisers and continuous moorers, and so it is time for a rest from the subject—for the foreseeable future—unless some decision comes from Canal & River Trust.

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Published: 01 January 2013

Victor: Rebounding

I NOTICE the matter of the Inland Waterways Association hijacking the voting for the four independent boaters' places on CaRT has again raised its ugly head.

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Published: 30 December 2012

No say on CaRT

I ALWAYS considered the work of the Inland Waterways Association as being important, and although I was not a member, I did seriously consider joining once we bought our boat in 2010, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 30 December 2012

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