RETURNING this week from five weeks cruising, I wonder where your contributor was cruising. I can honestly say that we had very little problem finding moorings along the Staffs & Worcs, Coventry, Oxford and Thames, writes Martin Howes.
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A TEENAGER drowned in a lock on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal whilst shadow boxing near its edge.
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PLANK Lane Bridge on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is still closed with a single opening each day at 2pm.
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I can commiserate with the boaters who had the broad locks to themselves through Leicester, as I have done it many times and only managed to get someone sharing once.
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WITH the failure of balance beams, there is a rudimentary testing of balance beams (and lock gates) in a simple process that I suspect most boaters do subconsciously when they operate the lock, writes Ralph Freeman, and suggests:
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A PIECE in the country's leading newspaper, The Times, complaining about Canal & River Trust's waterways, will come as a blow to the Trust as it does its best to cultivate the newspapers.
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A LOCK on the Montgomery Canal has been put completely out of action, it is believed by vandals.
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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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