Survey of boat owners’ views
Latest survey of boat owners’ views The survey, carried out in March and April this year, was sent to a third of CRT’s boat licence holders and received 1,163 responses. The headline results show a decline in boaters’ satisfaction: (%) 2019 (%) 2018 Boaters satisfied with their experience of cruising the waterways 61 70 […]
New boater surveys
New boater surveys CRT’s annual Boaters’ Survey has been shortened and renamed the ‘Perceptions of the Trust’ survey, which was sent out to a third of the Trust’s leisure boat licence holders at the start of April. It has also introduced a monthly ‘Waterway Experience’ survey of boaters to gather up-to-date feedback on the […]
Loss of facilities
Loss of facilities The boaters’ facilities at Newbold on Avon on the North Oxford canal have closed and all ex-BWML marinas have now stopped offering free facilities to passing boaters. A statement from BWML Sawley Marina read: ‘Since BWML’s affiliation with The Trust is no longer, we aren’t obliged to provide facilities to passing boaters. […]
Boater’s own boater survey published
Boaters John Sloane and Lucy Holmes have published the results of a web based survey on boater's views on moorings, completed this summer. The survey was designed and circulated by John in the late summer of 2013.
Headlines from the NABO 2011 Cost of Boating Survey
£ Maximum Minimum Average 40′ wide boat 57′ narrowboat 70′ narrowboat‘ Licence 1417 50 555 360 687 774 Boat Insurance 700 50 213 510 289 174 Mooring £ per foot 5269 127 11 0.19 1675 36 2040 51 2200 39 2756 39 BSS Certificate 436 175 64 0 135 0 Diesel/Petrol 2500 10 452 400 […]
BW Review of NABO Waterways Condition Survey Urgent issues
Jeff Whyatt, British Waterways SE Waterways Unit Manager, has produced a summary of the waterways units’ responses to urgent issues highlighted by NABO’s Waterways Condition Survey.
BW says “Survey and NABO dialogue are invaluable”
British Waterways’ Boaters’ Update May 2010 praises NABO.
BW Response to WCS
Caroline Killeavey, Head of BW Customer Relations, wrote: “The NABO Condition Survey provides good information and our Waterway Managers will use the data as they plan for next years works. The key benefit of customer feedback like this is that it helps us prioritise the works we do in line with customer needs.
OA Waterways Condition Survey
Two surveys initiated by the National Association of Boaters (NABO) have concluded that boaters are generally inclined to be positive about the state of inland waterways managed by Agencies other than British Waterways (BW), but feel negative about the canals and rivers run by BW.
Cost of Boating Survey 2009
A big thank you to those of you who completed our Cost of Boating Survey 2009. Clearly not everyone keeps records of how much running a boat costs, or wants to know how true “Bring On Another Thousand” is! Those costs were the “must haves”, so we ended up with 44 very useful sets of […]
