narrowboatworld

Afraid no more updates until after the week-end of 25th/26th May. Just two (occasionally three) people and a dog slowly cruising the waterways. No internet—no email response.

IN VIEW of the confusion with emergency telephone numbers for boaters, a professional engineer, accident investigator and safety manager that includes responsibilities with the second largest telecom network in Britain has offered his advice:

PILLINGS Lock Marina and the Loughborough Canal experienced a water level rise of around eight inches this morning (Wednesday 15th) due to the heavy rain in the night (which was forecast very publicly), writes Paul Lillie.

NOTWITHSTANDING the complaints about lack of moorings on the Severn, Canal & River Trust have now banned boaters from using the moorings at Upton-on-Severn—the only safe haven between Worcester and Gloucester.

I HAVE never really understood the 'us and them' mentality to be found amongst a group of people with supposedly similar interests, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) report on the South East Visitor Consultation suggests that they were taken aback by the hostility with which many boaters responded, writes Allan Richards.

THE article in narrowboatworld (Cart emergency service) concerning the man who fell into the Chesterfield Canal and caused  a furore about the emergency telephone number, has created more questions, to which its original author, Mick Fitzgibbons explains:

JIMMY Lockwood's article entitled "Déjà vu?" asked me to share the yardsticks I use to support comments I made about waterways being in better condition now than in the past, writes Canal & River Trust Operations Director Vince Moran.

HERE at Oxley we are usually up for an engineering challenge and this tale recounts our latest.

So 'nobody in CaRT received a single complaint during 2011 or 2012 regarding difficulty in finding a mooring'? Asks Kevin McNiff.

I CAN understand that perhaps no written evidence was put forward to support complaints about visitor moorings in the South East, but I can assure readers there have been complaints.

THE narrowboat Samshiba that was stolen from its moorings at Kegworth on the Soar has been found, repainted and with other alterations—on the Fossdyke.