West Midlands
This summer, our 250-mile cruise between June and October has been entirely within the CRT West Midlands Region. When we arrived in Birmingham, we moored on a finger mooring in Cambrian Basin. We are Waterside Mooring customers who notified CRT of our intention to be away from the mooring for more than 30 days and […]
Calor gas suppliers
You are all aware of the shortage of refills for Calor gas bottles, particularly in the last year. Calor has put the shortage down to record demand for cylinders due to lockdowns, warm weather, the boom in staycations, and the associated shortage of cylinders. Yet we also see that waterside Calor dealers have a stock […]
Changes at Boat Safety
David Fletcher explains the new Examination Check Procedures. The BSS team members are on a campaign at the moment to improve the consistency and quality of the examinations. We are all familiar with the discussions about how my boat passed last time, so why has it failed now? These events do nothing to improve the […]
Better by Water?
This has been a bumper couple of months for CRT’s finances. By quietly auctioning off four more listed properties, including two in London, they have another £4m in the coffers to spend, who knows on what? I do hope it’s for more of those tacky blue and white signs. I wonder how the sale of […]
GU Water Transfer Project
The project’s aim is to divert water from Minworth Waste Water Treatment Facility, which normally flows into the River Tame and on to the Trent/Humber and out to sea, and transfer it to the South East where water is in short supply. Using the Grand Union Canal as a conduit for this is one of […]
Another fascinating year in the life of NABO
Mike Rodd’s 2020-21 Annual Report to the AGM This has been a particularly interesting year and especially a real joy to be working with so many new members of your Council, even if the bulk of meetings have had to be via the internet. It has also been encouraging to see a small increase in […]
New Year, new Council roles
Editor, Peter Fellows, has a varied selection of articles for the last issue of the year. At the last Council meeting of the year, councillors thanked Mark Tizard for all his efforts to promote NABO over many years and welcomed Anne Husar as the new Vice-Chair and John Devonald the new General Secretary. New Council […]
Another change to CRT private boat terms
This week our hard working NABO team noticed that the private boat Terms and Conditions document from CRT has been changed in November 2021. You would be hard put to notice the changes because: CRT haven’t announced anything or notified licence holders. The changes are not identified in the new document. The pdf document title […]
NABO pleased with changes to EA’s proposals on boat registration charges
The Environment Agency has today published its final decisions on boat registration charges on its waterways for the next 3 years: These have resulted from the 8 week consultation launched in July relating to its initial proposals. Following feedback from boater representative organisations (including NABO) and individual boaters regarding the changes which included a proposed […]
Wales & South West User Forum
I attended the virtual meeting of the above on Thursday 4th November, which concentrated on the Kennet and Avon Canal. I have to say that this was one of the very best CRT Forum meetings I have attended and the Director responsible, Mark Evans, needs to be congratulated on developing a format which really works. […]
