Continuous Cruisers
The original reason this website was set up, the campaign by British Waterways to remove all liveaboard boaters from the Kennet and Avon who have no permanent mooring. The so-called continuous cruisers.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
The next meeting of the K and A boaters’ action group will be on Monday 12th November at 7.30pm in a pub in Devizes. If you have time to do some work over the next few months (or longer) defending our rights as liveaboards; doing constructive things like towpath tidies; engaging in dialogue with CRT etc, then we would like you to be in the group.
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Tags: liveaboards, meeting
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
There will be a towpath tidy this Saturday 10th November, organised by boaters. Please meet at Dundas wharf at 9.45am for a 10am start. The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust volunteers are also helping with this, and we will be using their work boat Vale of Pewsey to move the rubbish. Bring warm clothes, and work gloves if you have them – we have some gloves to lend as well. Rubbish bags will be provided.
Tags: Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Lifestyle, liveaboards, towpath tidy
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Just hours before the K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) was due to hold its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT issued a press release detailing its plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Section 17, Simon Salem, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
The K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) is to hold the first meeting of its Moorings Sub-Group on 26th October, it was announced yesterday.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, Mark Stephens, meeting, Sally Ash
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Saturday, October 20th, 2012
Three liveaboard boaters attended the CRT Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 27 September to register their objection to the joint CRT and IWA attack on the rights of boaters without home moorings.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, meeting, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
The first ever survey of liveaboard boaters’ health needs has begun in Bath and NE Somerset. It is being carried out for the NHS, and it’s your chance to have your say about how health services need to be changed to make them easier for boaters to get access to.
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Tags: Bath & NE Somerset, continuous cruising, liveaboards, NHS, survey
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
This web site’s Editor received a letter from CRT recently threatening to take court proceedings for libel against the web site because of statements made in articles revealing and commenting about BW/CRT’s relationship with hire boat holiday brokers Drifters Leisure Limited.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, FOI request, hire boat companies, libel, liveaboards, Robin Evans, Sally Ash
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