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Email: Learn the ropes

Regarding Tie up and Shut up! Most of the anti social morons who shout, I wouldn't mind betting, are the same idiots who tie up with one rope bow and stern, and also the centre rope on the roof.

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Published: 31 March 2014

Email: In wrong environment

I have been a lover of our inland waterways for over 40 years as an angler, hirer, boat builder, share boat manager and private owner and it saddens me that some of the pleasantness and courtesy that we would once offer each other without question and take for granted, seems to have been gradually evaporating over the last few years.

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Published: 28 March 2014

Email: Drunken boaters abroad too

Alcohol and driving whatever vehicle does not mix, that's for sure. Sadly enough, we see this happening every summer here in the Netherlands.
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Published: 21 March 2014

Email: Expecting too much

I think Keith Gudgin is expecting too much from Volly Lockies. In my experience—three to four weeks boating annually for the last 25+ years—a BW lock keeper helping me through his (or her) lock was unusual. Helping me through a flight was unheard of.

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Published: 10 March 2014

CaRT U-turn on Roving Mooring Permits

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has scrapped its plans to introduce Roving Mooring Permits at two locations on 1st April 2014, writes Allan Richards. It cites legal issues which have raised doubts about the practical implications of implementing the scheme.

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Published: 10 March 2014

Desperately worried boaters

WHILST so much has been written with regard to the Pillings débâcle, at this late stage I have to begin with my concern for those, should the marina be closed, caught between the  Trust and Pillings—the boaters, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 10 March 2014

BWML boss goes

THE Managing Director of British Waterways Marinas Ltd, (BWML) Derek Newton is leaving his position, telling us he has 'decided to call it a day and make way for new thinking'.

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Published: 09 March 2014

New waterways documentary

CHANNEL 4 is screening the first episode of a new canal documentary on Monday that perhaps will be somewhat better that the normal ones we have suffered, as it features actual boaters.

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Published: 08 March 2014

Volly Lockies—the rare bird on the waterways

Volunteer Lock Keepers—Volly Lockies—as they shall be known, are indeed a rare bird on the the waterways, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 08 March 2014

Dirty work afoot?

Contractors Land & Water are at present taking core samples from the ground outside Pillings Marina entrance—exclusive photo above. Does this mean that Land & Water will be undertaking CaRT's 'dirty work' in blockading the marina entrance?

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Published: 07 March 2014

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