I know that speeding canoeists are bad enough, but the speed that rowers flirt downstream on the Soar above Kegworth Deep Lock must take some beating.
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A FEW days ago Canal & River Trust (CaRT) issued a press release headlining as ‘New £20 million development planned for canalside site' writes Allan Richards.
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IT IS not enough to tell inexperienced boaters to keep forward when descending a lock, writes Mike Todd.
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NOTWITHSTANDING a CaRT spokesman stating there are only 'a handful of sinking a year', the situation has become such a problem that the industry met with the Trust to establish an accepted procedure for raising the ever increasing number of boats sunk in locks.
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I was under the, obviously mistaken, impression that you only included stories concerning narrowboats and that canoeists did not come under your remit, but pleased to see that they do.
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I AM a continuous cruiser narrowboater and at present I am moored on a 14 days visitor mooring at Linslade/Leighton Buzzard on the Grand Union Canal. writes Keith Gudgin.
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THE Floating Bookshop row is set to escalate with even the BBC now reporting the story (CaRT to close floating bookshop), writes Allan Richards.
A BOATER died in his boat after it caught fire during the early hours of Monday morning, with fire fighters suspecting its wood burning stove.
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THE body of an angler was discovered on Saturday in Netham Lock in Bristol where boats from the Kennet & Avon Canal access the Floating Harbour.
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LIVING on the canals and being a keen observer of nature I'm somewhat bemused by the idea of a 'wildlife corridor', writes Ralph Freeman.
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