In the Chair February 2017
Home comforts NABO Chair Stella Ridgway offers some tips for liveaboards I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. We certainly did, as my eldest daughter surprised me by arriving from New Zealand for an extended visit on Christmas Eve. As you can imagine when you are surprised like that, there were many tears, hugs and […]
Editorial February 2017
Consultation and funding – a lack of both for some Editor Peter Fellows compares navigation authorities Following the complaints throughout last year over lack of vegetation management on the South Oxford Canal, it is good to see that CRT is spending the winter putting the situation right. And it is also good that CRT is […]
River Thames and connecting waterways: cruising guide
The EA has just published the latest version of this guide for boaters and other users of the River Thames, includes maps plotting boating facilities, distance and headways and navigation information. See: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/river-thames-and-connecting-waterways-cruising-guide For any questions about this publication, please email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Editorial December 2016
Editorial Another successful AGM at Wolverhampton Boat Club (many thanks for the excellent food and hospitality), with Stella taking over the reins from Mike and farewells to longstanding Council members Geoffrey Rogerson and Stephen Peters and London rep, Simon Robbins. It was good to meet Ken Hylins, who has a special interest in assisting boaters […]
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something? As a fairly recent member of NABO, I fail to understand the objection to CRT stating that all boaters should obey the same rules when cruising whether they have a home mooring or not. Am I missing something here? Rodney Hardwick Mark Tizard, NABO Vice Chair, replied: The reason why NABO objects […]
NABO’s new Assistant for the Disabled
NABO’s new Assistant for the Disabled Ken Hylins writes: “I have lived on a narrowboat some five years as a continual cruiser … five minutes as some would say. Then two years ago my partner became very ill and was in hospital for a total of three months, which, when living on a narrowboat, is a […]
In the Chair – Stella Ridgway looks forward
We are all ‘customers’ now Stella Ridgway looks forward to a better service As this is my first column as Chair of NABO, I’ll begin with a short background: I live on a narrowboat on the Upper Peak Forest Canal with my husband Chris and two Labradors. My disability prevents us moving at present and […]
EA’s National Navigation Users Forum (NNUF) meeting: 2nd December 2016.
Mike Rodd represented NABO at this biannual meeting which was well attended by most of the boating organisations which cover the EA navigations. As is usual with these EA User Forums, the preparatory work was excellent and the meeting was very well chaired by EA Board member Peter Ainsworth, with a focus of making sure […]
Middle Level Navigation Reform
The Middle level Commssioner have issued this statement Following our consultation on proposals to amend the Commissioners’ Navigation legislation in the first half of this year, consideration of the responses and subsequent discussions with Parliamentary Counsel, the Commissioners have now presented a private Bill to Parliament seeking the necessary legislative amendments.
Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Boats are built to keep water out, but this also makes them good containers for gases and fumes – especially carbon monoxide. ‘Black-spot’ colour-changing CO indicator cards are not good enough: they do not give an instant warning of dangerous CO levels and have no alarm to wake you up. CO alarms are designed to […]
