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Broad beams on narrow canals

MADNESS should also refer to CART, for allowing a wide beam to be on a narrow canal.  Does it have a licence? Because I can't see a registration number or anything showing on a window, writes Alan Baker.

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Published: 29 July 2019

Working holidays boost canal restoration

VOLUNTEERS from across the UK and France have spent three weeks in July helping restore the Wey & Arun Canal.

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Published: 29 July 2019

Victor: We are on our own

OUR contributor John Coxon asks: Do we run from the bullies—or fight?  Referring of course to the mass of failures and closures to our waterways.

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Published: 28 July 2019

Madness!

BroadbeamBirminghamA FRIEND of mine took this picture in Birmingham last weekend of a stuck broad beam boat, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 27 July 2019

Do we run from the bullies—or fight?

TONY Brooks effectively said he was fed up with CaRT's ways so was selling up but in the next paragraph states that 'boaters should stand up and be counted now', writes John Coxon.

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Published: 27 July 2019

Woman 'badly burnt' in marina gas explosion

 A WOMAN has been 'badly burnt' and two people injured after a gas explosion at Upton Marina on the Severn.

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Published: 26 July 2019

How can concerns be raised?

IN THE piece What about its customers Tony Brooks opines that CaRT has, possibly, 'gone rogue and out of control', writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 26 July 2019

Ambulance for liveaboard family 'roasting' in narrowboat

AN AMBULANCE was called to a boating family who were taken to hospital with heat exhaustion.

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Published: 26 July 2019

'What about it's customers?'

That piece [spending on ITV] appalled me and I fear it is indicative of an organisation gone rogue and out of control, writes Tony Brooks.

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Published: 25 July 2019

CaRT not telling

I was extremely pleased to read Keith Gudgin's report about Atherstone Flight, as its broken lock is not in the stoppage pages of CaRT, writes Jules Rackam.

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Published: 25 July 2019

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