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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OWNERSHIP of Pillings Lock Marina will be transferred from Quorn Marina Properties (QMP) to a phoenix company three weeks before Canal & River Trust (CaRT) carries out its threat to blockade the marina, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Canal & River Trust has reluctantly concluded that roving mooring permits, which it was proposing to introduce in two local areas from April 2014, cannot be used to deal with localised issues of mooring congestion on the waterways.
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IT MAY be correct what Caroline Killeavy of the Canal & River Trust says that no paid permanent lock keepers have been made redundant because they were to be replaced by volunteers, writes Ian Waters.
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