I SPOKE at length to a lady called Claire on her narrowboat Ursa Major, who I met in Loughborough, when getting onto our boat. She is a resident in Derby and keeps her boat at Mercia Marina in Willington, writes Paul Lillie.
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GERRY VARLEY asks whether it is 'worth the risk' of boating on the Kennet & Avon. I would emphatically say yes—it's a beautiful canal, writes David Williams.
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THE Waterways Ombudsman, Andrew Walker, and the Waterways Ombudsman Committee, have issued their combined Annual Reports for 2015/16.
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YOU boaters lined-up at Fobney Lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal ready for it to re-open this morning (Friday) as promised by Canal & River Trust are going to be unlucky—for oh no it won't!
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ON THE matter of the rotten beams, it seems to me that it's not something that would happen overnight undetected, writes, Keith Gudgin.
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WITH the help of friends, after many years, we will be able to cruise the Kennet & Avon Canal in early September, the last remaining major waterway that we have not been on, writes Gerry Varley.
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It really is a 'sledge hammer to crack a nut' with the proposed banning orders regarding boats and the towpath in Oxford.
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THE broken lock beam yesterday on the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is the third in a week!
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THERE is a warning issued concerning Stoke Top Lock (2) on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal.
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