NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOAT OWNERSBSS Boat Owners’ Survey – Invitation to Take Part
The Boat Safety Scheme Boat Owners’ Survey has launched today and is now live. This is your chance to give your views and we hope that you will take the time to participate in the survey. It should take about 5-10 minutes to complete. You can complete this on any device, but our recommendation is […]
Boat Owners’ BSS Survey – starts next week
The Boat Safety Scheme Boat Owners’ survey supported by NABO is due to launch next week on Monday March 15th. The BSS is keen to understand more about your opinions on some important issues related to boat ownership, safety and also collect ideas for what could be improved. The survey will be available for around […]
How the upcoming Boat Owners’ BSS Survey will work
We sent you a message recently announcing that the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) has decided to carry out a survey amongst all Boat Owners, and this is strongly supported by NABO. There have been a few questions, so I thought I’d share some information about how the survey will work.
National Inland Navigation Forum (NINF) AGM & Meeting: 20th February 2021
A Zoom-based meeting of this valuable forum brought together representatives of NABO, RBOA, CBOA, DBA, TBA, HNBC, IWA, AWCC and the General Secretary, Michael Stimpson. The meeting agreed to reappoint Michael and thanked him for his valuable work over the past year. The finances were also reported on and with little expenditure on meetings, the […]
Boat Owners’ BSS Survey in March 2021
The Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) has decided to carry out an online survey of all boat owners. The survey will be live during March 2021. The purpose of the survey is to understand more about boat owners opinions on some important issues related to boat ownership, safety and also collect ideas for what could be […]
NABO News 2022
NABO News – Issue 6 of 2022: 4 Editorial 5 In the Chair 8 Fly on the Wall 10 Around the Regions: Anglian waterways. , East Midlands, Wales and the South West. 11 NABO News: NABO’s new Council 12 Meeting of APPGW 13 News: Anderton update 14 Winter work update, CRT exhibition to MPs 15 […]
NABO News 2020
Nabo News – Issue 6 of 2020: 4 Editorial 5 In the Chair : Chairman’s report to the AGM 9 Fly on the wall 11 New NABO Council members 12 News: Boating in lockdown 13 User Groups: Thames User Forum, APPWG: Alternative power sources for boats 14 CRT licence terms and conditions. 16 Boater reputation […]
NABO response to CRT’s consultation on congestion in London
In this paper, NABO is responding to CRT’s recent consultation and Zoom meetings, seeking suggestions from boaters to further address congestion, principally in the London area. For several years, CRT sought views via the Boater Relationship Group and subsequently, when this collapsed, it facilitated meetings that resulted in the publication of its London Strategy document […]
Management of Thames Moorings by Third Party Contractors
Thames Recreational Powered Boating Organisations, including the Association of Thames Yacht Clubs, the Dutch Barge Association, the Residential Boat Owners’ Association, the Thames Motor Boaters Association and NABO, have expressed their deep concern about the proposed management of Thames moorings by third party contractors and have now found it necessary to issue the following advisory […]
Canals and transatlantic slavery
In spring 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement spurred CRT into commissioning Dr Jodie Matthews, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, to undertake literature research into people who had made their wealth through the slave trade and invested the profits in canal building. She also investigated canals that were built specifically to carry […]
