Archive for December, 2014
Monday, December 22nd, 2014
Here is our 2014 Christmas competition! The best caption for the picture below will win a lifetime’s free subscription to this web site and a lovely jar of delicious sweets.
Send your entries by email to info@boatingcommunity.org.uk or text them to 07928 078208 or just put them on a comment on this page before midnight on 1st January 2015 to have a chance of winning!
There will be a bonus prize for the person who also correctly predicts the next former BW Director or senior manager whose job is culled by the CRT Dictator Chief Executive Richard Parry. Did we say “retirement”? Merry Christmas everyone!
Tags: Christmas competition, Richard Parry
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Liveaboard boaters, especially those between Devizes and Bath, are breathing a sigh of relief now this year’s hire boat season is over. The K&A boaters action group is drawing up a dossier of the incidents involving hire boats and complaints that boaters and canalside residents have made about the behaviour or safety of hire boat crew this year. The group will then seek a meeting with the hire companies.
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Tags: canalside residents, complaints, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards
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Sunday, December 14th, 2014
Usually when CRT wins a Section 8 case it publishes the judgement (if there is one) on its web site. However, it made an exception in the case it won against Geoffrey Mayers, the reason being that this judgement confirms that it would be unlawful for CRT to set a minimum distance that continuous cruisers must travel to comply with the law. The Judge also stated that a boat with a home mooring does not have to actually use its mooring, something else that CRT would prefer us not to know about.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Geoffrey Mayers, liveaboards, Paul Davies, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in The Law | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 7th, 2014
Simon Salem, CRT’s Marketing Director, is to leave CRT in June next year, it was announced on Friday. The announcement comes only 5 months after CRT publicised plans to restructure its management teams, a re-organisation that appeared to leave Mr Salem with very little to do.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT Council, IWA, liveaboards, Nigel Johnson, Richard Parry, Sally Ash, Simon Salem
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