AFTER 11 years we thought it was time for the Avon again, so being able to pick up our boat at Stratford, it was the parting of 50 quid for the privilege and off on the river we went.
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I AM NOT a writer to magazines and websites, preferring to take the bad with the good, but the experiences of my wife and myself on the Kennet & Avon Canal has prompted me at last to 'put pen to paper' as it were, writes Rick Nielsen.
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AS A BOAT owner and a retired police officer, I read with interest the articles in narrowboatworld regarding the 'Narrowboat burglar', writes John Barr.
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We have been boating for over 20 years and have paid for full time moorings for the majority of that period.
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JUST had my copy of GOBA [Great Ouse Boating Association] News with the normal praise for the possibility of Canal & River Trust taking over the river, but I think they are living in a dream world, writes James Henry.
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I don't know what others think, but I think it is daft choice for Coventry [Canal] Society to pick the Stop Lock at Hawkesbury Junction for lock winding.
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BOTH the Sheffield Swingbridge on the Kennet & Avon and the Snaygill Swing Bridge on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal are still both out of action.
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TO ASSIST boaters at Hawkesbury Junction there is to be a lock winding day organised by the Coventry Canal Society.
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IN AN attempt to reduce drownings in the Thames, Oxford City Council has launched the campaign Respect for Wild Water, which it hopes will reduce the number of deaths in the river and its tributaries.
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BOATERS are complaining that the bottom gate of a lock is leaking so much that it is impossible to get the water level to be able to open the top gate and they are stuck in the lock.
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