IN RESPONSE to Ronnie Colman (Their own rules), the Kennet andAvon Boating Community web site was launched in 2009 to support and inform boaters without home moorings on the K&A regarding their legal rights, writes Pamela Smith.
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COMING up Watford Locks in the rain and single handed I was pleased to receive assistance from a volunteer lock keeper and a kind lady from the boat behind.
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WORK has now commenced on dredging the Daw End Branch of the Wyrley & Essington Canal, known to boaters as the Curly Wyrley due to its many twists.
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LIFE saving equipment has been stolen from the Severn Area Rescue Association base in Kidderminster.
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THE closure of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Lock 55 at Blackburn should be lifted by this coming Friday afternoon, Keith Gudgin tells us.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) have quietly introduced a concept of ‘ghost moorers', and that is why Ralph Freeman and Tony Dunkley are being treated as 'continuous cruisers' rather than as boaters who have 'home moorings' writes Allan Richards.
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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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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.
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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I have no wish to be involved in adverse comments, or not, regarding Sally Ash and her departure.
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