The National Inland Navigation Forum, NINF, met at the St Pancras Cruising Club on Saturday 12th September 2018. 6 of its member bodies (AWCC, NABO, RBOA, DBA, IWA & CBOA) were represented, together with the General Secretary, Michael Stimpson. This Forum is a useful meeting point bringing together navigational bodies involved in CRT, EA and other waterways. The following summarises some of the major items discussed.
Now is the time for you to join the dedicated souls that make up NABO Council and stand for election for 2018–2019.
The NABO AGM will be held on Sunday 11th November at the Tamworth CC Club, Kettlebrook Wharf, Kettlebrook Rd Tamworth B77 1AG (by boat it is on the Coventry Canal, just up from Fazeley Junction).
We will start at 10.30 am with the AGM formal business, followed by a presentation and discussion. After a light lunch, there will be a meeting of the new Council, to which NABO members are welcome. Nominations for Council are required and should be sent to the general Secretary
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Please let us know if you are coming so that we can plan the catering.
Despite the excellent boating weather, for much of the summer, CRT had emergency navigation closures in force. This was the situation in July, when there were seventeen:
Locks 1 – 12, Macclesfield Canal
Lock 7, Actons Lock, Regents Canal
Lock 2, Belan Lock, Montgomery Canal
Teeces Bridge, Wyrley & Essington Canal
Lock 4, Aston, Birmingham & Fazeley CanalLock 62, Pavilion Lock and Lock 67, Booth Lane Top Lock, Trent & Mersey Canal
Camp Hill Top Lock to Knowle Top Lock, Grand Union Canal
Glasson Flight, Lancaster Canal
Bridge 46, Bevans Lane Bridge, Mon & Brec Canal
Bridge 10, Holmes Swing Bridge to Stanley Lock Flight/ Eldonian Village, Leeds & Liverpool Canal
Marsh Lock, Weaver Navigation/Manchester Ship Canal
Lock 11, Marple, Peak Forest Canal
Stanthorne Lock to Wardle Lock, Middlewich Branch, Shropshire Union Canal
Three Mills Lock, River Lee Navigation
Middlewood Locks, Manchester, Bury & Bolton Canal
Stainton Aqueduct, Lancaster
Lock 9, Huddersfield Narrow Canal
The third survey of a third of CRT boat licence holders was carried out by an independent research consultant in March and April 2018. The survey has now covered all boaters who have held a boat licence in the last three years. In June, CRT published a summary of the last survey results, which included every new boat licence holder who had not been surveyed in 2016 or 2017. For comparison, the results included the average over the three-year survey cycle (3YA).
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