Mooring
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
Councillor Fleur de Rhé-Philipe, Chair of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership, resigned this week. Tamsin Phipps, who represents canoeists on the Partnership, is now acting as the temporary Chair. The Partnership is about to release its review of the K&A local mooring strategy proposals.
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, mooring policy, Parliament
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Mooring Strategy Committee, Moorings Consultation, News, The Politick | No Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
First it was the Kennet and Avon
Then it was the Lee and Stort
and now…. It’s the South East waterways, the southern Grand Union and the Oxford Canal. Sally Ash is on the rampage again with another ill-thought out multi-layered deceit to appease hire boat company interests.
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Tags: enforcement, grand union, Moorings Consultation, penalty charges, Sally Ash, se waterways consultation, visitor moorings, VM
Posted in Moorings Consultation, News | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, NABO, NBTA, RBOA, Sally Ash
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, News | No Comments »
Saturday, January 19th, 2013
An enforcement officer has been forced to reconsider ordering an injured boater to move within 48 hours, and has agreed that the boater can stay on a visitor mooring for the time that a doctor has recommended for the injury to heal.
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Tags: enforcement, mooring, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Health, Letters to BW and others, Lifestyle, Mooring, News | No Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
Vaughan Welch, one of the four private boater representatives elected to the CRT Council, has recently written an article encouraging IWA members to spy on boaters who comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Harassment, Inland Waterways Association, liveaboards, Section 17, Vaughan Welch, Waterways Act 1995, West Midlands
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Mooring, News, Opinion | 3 Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
CRT has conceded that it cannot lawfully specify a minimum distance that boaters without home moorings must travel in order to comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, meeting, mooring policy, NABO, Sally Ash, Section 17, U-turn, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, News, The Law | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Two boats had their ropes cut and were set adrift at Semington yesterday (8th January), probably after dark. If you saw anyone acting suspiciously, or have any information that could help to track down the culprit, please contact Wiltshire Police on 101.
Tags: crime, liveaboards, mooring
Posted in Community, Mooring, News | No Comments »
Friday, November 30th, 2012
The CRT has rejected the offer to remove the articles on this web site that it alleges are defamatory.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, hire boat companies, Letters to BW and others, libel threat, liveaboards, Sally Ash
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, Letters to BW and others, News | No Comments »