Posts Tagged ‘continuous cruising’
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023
If you or anyone you know would like a helping hand and could do with a bag of coal or wood from Pay It Forward, please fill out this quick form below or get in touch with floatyboatfund@gmail.com
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Tags: coal and diesel boats, continuous cruising, Floaty Boat, heating, Julian House, liveaboards, Pay It Forward, Travelling Community Support Service
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
The second meeting of the new Kennet & Avon Boaters Association takes place tomorrow, Thursday 7th December 2023, at 6pm to 11pm. There will be a Community update on the activities of the association; family-friendly films between 6pm and 7pm, and more boater-orientated short films later. The meeting will take place at the Party Spot at Horsefield, below the towpath between Smelly Bridge and Avoncliff aqueduct.
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Tags: Avoncliff, children, cinema, community, continuous cruising, family, Kennet and Avon Boaters Association, liveaboards, meeting, Party Spot
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
Wiltshire Council is holding a Highways Matters Event hosted by Pewsey Area Board in Pewsey on Monday 27th November 2023. This is an ideal opportunity for boaters to demand that the Council takes action over the recent obstruction of parking in Wilcot.
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Tags: continuous cruising, highways, liveaboards, meeting, parking, Pewsey, Pewsey Area Board, Wilcot, Wiltshire County Council
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Sunday, November 5th, 2023
CRT is planning to levy a ‘surcharge’ on boats licensed without a home mooring, which will start at 5% of the licence fee in April 2024 and increase to 25% by 2028. This could price us off the waterways and eliminate our nomadic way of life. There will be a national protest march on CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry’s office at Cambrian Wharf in central Birmingham to oppose the surcharge on our community. The march is organised by the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA).
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Birmingham, boat licence fees, coach from K&A, continuous cruising, demonstration, licence surcharge, liveaboards, meeting, Protest, Richard Parry
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
The lane where boaters park their vehicles in Wilcot has been ‘landscaped’ to make parking impossible, according to boaters who are moored there. On 24th October, rubble and earth was piled up along the whole length of the lane on both sides, making a steep bank as shown in the photographs below. This was done even though there were some boaters’ cars parked in the lane at the time.
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Tags: continuous cruising, flytipping, liveaboards, parking, prejudice, Wilcot, Wiltshire County Council
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service will be visiting Bradford Lock on 7th November 2023 and Caen Hill Marina on 14th November 2023 with nb Litania at 11am to 4.30pm. They will be providing Covid 19 and Flu vaccinations to boaters who are in the eligible groups: age 65 and over and other people who are eligible due to specific health conditions etc. There will also be support and information on welfare; other health matters, and free Boat Fire Safety packs and first aid kits.
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Tags: boat fire safety pack, continuous cruising, Covid-19 vaccination, Fire safety, first aid kits, Flu vaccination, Health, Julian House, liveaboards, nb Litania, Travelling Community Support Service, welfare
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
There will be a boaters’ meeting to discuss the CRT surcharges for boats without a home mooring; lack of facilities; lack of waterway maintenance and other issues that affect the community of liveaboard boaters on the K&A, and what we can do to protect our way of life.
The meeting will take place at 5pm on Sunday 15th October 2023 at the Wallington Hall, Church St, Bradford on Avon BA15 1LN. Church St is opposite the Dandy Lion pub; the hall used to be called the Masonic Hall or the Church Hall.
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Tags: boat licence fees, Bradford-on-Avon, continuous cruising, facilities, licence surcharge, liveaboards, maintenance, meeting, smoke control
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
Following the CRT consultation on licence fees in March this year, CRT announced on 5th October 2023 that it would impose a surcharge on licences without a home mooring, making these licences more expensive than licences for boats with a home mooring. We oppose this discriminatory and unfair move, which is the biggest attack on the community of liveaboard boaters without a home mooring since CRT’s 2015 enforcement policy for boats without a home mooring.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, boat licence fees, continuous cruising, inflation, liveaboards, meeting, Protest, widebeams
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