A recent survey shows that 100% of eighteen-year-olds living on boats in the Bradford on Avon area have gained places at Oxford University, proving that as a group we have more brain power than BW. Well, OK, that’s actually only one person! Congratulations to the student in question and best of luck with your studies!
Stories
Boaters aren’t stupid…
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Tags: Bradford-on-Avon, continuous cruiser, liveaboards
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A message from London
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010We received this lovely message from a boater in London recently.
“I am so glad that you are working on all this, hopefully with support. I don’t know if this is useful for you but here are my experiences from travels and at home.
Read more…
Tags: continuous cruising, Lifestyle, liveaboards
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Pete’s Adventure
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010No, not ‘Five Go Mad In Dorset’, but we have received the following communication…
It’s official: Bath Narrow Boats in collusion with BWB!
BWB seized Indian Pete’s lovely boat Ayuppa. He was taking it to the river to be removed on the river slipway as BWB had requested. He left it overnight before the Deep Lock. Next morning it had gone. There was no notification from BWB what had had happened. He found it moored in Bath Narrow Boats. When he asked for it back an employee (who claimed to own the company) said that BWB had seized the boat. The employee threatened to ‘punch his lights out and call the police if he didn’t leave the premises’.
Later that night Indian Pete recovered his boat without touching Narrow Boats property in any way. Again there was no notification on the boat from BWB.
On Monday 16 Aug a community patrol officer was snooping around Ayuppa and later a BWB canoeist was spotted followed by BWB patrol officers taking numbers. So now they’ve stolen it back.
Pete has now informed a solicitor so watch this space and…….
Naughty Bath Narrow Boats! We don’t need them but they need us!
Tags: enforcement team, liveaboards, patrol notices
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Tipton
Monday, June 21st, 2010We received a message from Colin Hobbs who is looking for photos of Tipton, the coal and diesel boat featured in our article here
http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=132
Colin says “My Mother’s family worked and I guess lived on Tipton in the 1930s and 1940s, and I was wondering if there may be some old photos of the family about somewhere. The family name was Holt, my grandfather the skipper was Arthur Holt. They may have worked other boats but this is the only boat name I remember”.
If anyone can help, please contact Colin at halsewell@lineone.net
Tags: History, Lifestyle
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Good Public Relations?
Thursday, June 10th, 2010A BW employee doing a survey of visitors to the canal approached a member of the public in Bradford on Avon recently. After asking some questions, the BW worker asked for comments. The passer-by, who is a friend of one of the boaters, said that BW didn’t appear to look after boaters at all well. Another own goal for BW PR!
Tags: British Waterways, liveaboards, traveller's rights
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What happened….
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Tags: joke
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