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Winter moorings
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- Category: Canal and River Trust
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A report by CRT on last year’s sales of winter moorings shows the following numbers of permits sold in each price bracket:
Price per metre No sold
£6.70 262
£10.30 151
£13.90 150
£16.00 75
£18.00 80
Total 718
The total number of months booked was 2305, raising a total income of £314,149.40.
Don't be shy! – NABO needs YOU
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- Category: NN Editorials
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Editor, Peter Fellows, describes some current threats to boating and why you can help NABO.
CRT’s Annual Report, published in July, makes for mixed reading: income and expenditure on the waterways were up in all areas over the year, but boater satisfaction declined significantly. CRT attributes this to ‘disruption due to summer water shortages, changes to licence fees, concerns about network maintenance, and concerns about the Trust’s repositioning.’ Correspondence in this issue and social media posts by NABO members and other boaters suggests that failing or leaking locks, overgrown vegetation and CRT’s inability to control speeding towpath cyclists are more likely causes of boaters’ dissatisfaction. I have devoted a significant section of this issue to problems caused by towpath lycra-louts and possible ways that CRT could address them.
New NABO News on line
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- Category: NABO
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The latest colour edition of NABO News is now available online to NABO members who have registered on the website. Members can log in and then open the pdf file on the Members/NABO News latest edition menu link. That gives NABO members advance access to our flagship publication, even before it drops through the letterbox. If you are not a member, you can peruse the contents here and see what you are missing.
NABO response to Consultation for Diesel Fuel Used in Private Leisure Craft
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- Category: Current Consultations
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The National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) is a voluntary membership organisation, principally consisting of private boat owners based on the inland waterways of England and Wales. NABO exists to represent the interests of its members with navigation authorities and government organisations and to promote responsible ownership and use of inland boats. I am writing in response to the current HMRC Consultation for Diesel Fuel used in Private Leisure Craft.