narrowboatworld

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.

FEEL what you will about Canal & River Trust, at least it attempted to get those boats stuck on the Slough Arm to the week-end's Canal Cavalcade.

ONE, Tim Parker, Chairman of Drifters Canal Boat Holidays, tells us 'Britain's beautiful 3,000 miles canal and river network is in better shape than ever so there's never been a better time to try a canal boat holiday'.

OFFICIALDOM has at last admitted what we have all known for years—with the notice that 'the significant increase in vessels using Bow Back Rivers has not materialised'.

IT SEEMS the owners of the café by the entrance to the boatyard by the bottom of Hillmorton Locks on the Oxford Canal do not like boats passing their establishment.

THOUGH £32 millions were poured into opening the 'impossible dream' of restoring the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, to my mind it was by far from completed.

YOU have to admire the anglers who have Fish Legal fighting their corner, that has certainly put the brakes on the race for hydro power installation on the rivers, after CaRT earmarked a massive 45 sites.

SURELY some perspective ought to be brought to the outcry over the South East mooring consultation and the vociferous few.

YOU KNOW, as things are panning out, it is very obvious that those, the likes of dear Mr Vaughan Welch, who managed to get themselves voted onto the CaRT Council by the easily led IWA members, are now trying to implement their opinions onto the rest of us boaters.

I SEE the advert is out for a new chief Executive for CaRT—'to take on the leadership challenge'.

I RECKON there has been enough written about the coming demise of Robin Evans without me adding, but as the Inland Waterways Association is somewhat in the news at the moment, the association's comment rather sums it up.

I CAN tell you without a shadow of doubt, when there is need for something to be done by Canal & River Trust, that it would really not be bothered about, there will come the words—"We are a charity and as such we do not have infinite resources."