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"We have given up!"

AFTER 16 years of enjoying the canals and rivers we have joined the many others who have given up boating, writes Julian Pearce.

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Published: 30 June 2021

Victor proved right

VICTOR is certainly being proved right when he told of the unreliable Leeds & Liverpool and Rochdale problems.

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Published: 30 June 2021

Having a swinging time

THE trust is having a swinging time these days with swing bridge after swing bridge failing.

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Published: 30 June 2021

Signs, signs and more signs

YELLOW signs, blue signs and now electronic signs! writes John Coxon.

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Published: 28 June 2021

Good— and not so good—volunteers at Marple Flight

WE TOOK the Boy's boat down from Poynton to Portland Basin Marina for some work—excellently done—and returned it a week later, writes Paul Burke.

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Published: 28 June 2021

Bomb scare closes Leeds navigation

A MAGNET 'fisherman' pulling out a 'grenade' from the navigation caused a scare in Leeds over the week-end.

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Published: 28 June 2021

Rotten balance beam closes Oxford

A ROTTEN balance beam on a lock gate has snapped off and closed the Oxford Canal, yet again.

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Published: 28 June 2021

35mph speedsters on the Thames

THE newest extreme sport, Efoil, is motorised surfing on such as the Thames.

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Published: 28 June 2021

Victor is told it's a worry

FAR too many people are telling us it's now become a worry of where to cruise, asking us for advice.

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Published: 27 June 2021

David: No problems—yet

I EXPECT I am asking for trouble.

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Published: 25 June 2021

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Latest

  • Boaters in limbo after marina forced to go into liquidation
  • Canal to be closed for a month
  • A new event at Banbury
  • Works not finished in time for Easter
  • Restrictions on the Rochdale Canal to save water
  • Possible boatyard for Oxford after 20 years
  • Four paddle failures already this month
  • De-wintering tips from River Canal Rescue
  • Smoke control comes into force for narrowboats in Bimingham
  • Three stoppages still ongoing
  • EA stops Bristol Floating Harbour funding
  • Braunston Customer Service Facility now closed
  • Marsworth Flight reopened
  • Stoppages on Rochdale and Tame Valley canals
  • Another paddle failure
  • Another broken paddle on the Rochdale Canal
  • Environment Agency clearing more abandoned boats off the Thames
  • Attack just off the Coventry Canal towpath
  • I don't believe it! tells Victor
  • Another mile of the Stroudwater Canal in water

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