CRT Council Elections 2023
CRT have now published the list of candidates for the 4 private boater representative vacancies on their Council. The election is open until 10th January 2024, and we encourage you to vote. CRT will have sent an email or a paper letter to the contact details linked to the boat licence. The voting response has […]
Guide for Electrical Safety for Small Craft.
The IET has announced the release of the “On-Board Guide for Electrical Safety for Small Craft”, which was initiated by NABO and the production undertaken in consultation with representatives from many boating and related organisations. Small craft have an ever-increasing amount of electrical equipment, systems, and associated power requirements. As a result, significantly more risks […]
Chair’s Report to AGM November 2023
After too many years as your Chair, and with an excellent Council team in place, I felt this was the time not to stand for re-election as your chair, although – if approved – I am happy to continue as a Council member, especially given the situation with EA and my role on the Boat […]
In the Chair September 2023
As we highlighted in the last edition of Nabo News, a major part of our Council’s work is currently dedicated to supporting the vital and ongoing “Fund Britain’s Waterways” campaign. At NABO’s instigation, and with over 70 organisations now on board, this initiative is being led by a small steering group with membership from NABO, […]
NN Editorial October 2023
Editorial I have now finished my summer cruise and am pleased to say back at my home mooring. It’s hard not to sink into a depression, Autumn on its way, lack of funds, increasing structural failures, lack of dredging, looming canal closures…… I started to think about the reasons behind the current canal network demise. […]
NABO writes to CRT on licence costs
In October CRT annouced their intention to increase licence costs by an unprecidented 5% above inflation. They have also decided to apply increasing levels of surcharge to wide beam boats and continuous cruisers. NABO Has witten to Richard Parry to make our views knows, and we have a reply. The text is proved below. We […]
Campaign cruise to the Palace of Westminster
Update on Fund Britain’s Waterways (FBW) including the public petition and the Westminster Campaign Cruise Tuesday 14th November FBW continues to bring all those interested in our inland waterways together and is attracting wide public support for its campaign to safeguard the future of Britain’s unique network of inland waterways. This email is to remind […]
Unprecedented numbers joining NABO
We are seeing an unprecedented rate of boaters signing up to NABO. You are all very welcome. If you are experiencing difficulty during the joining process, or you have questions please do ask admin@nabo.org.uk We will do our very best to respond quickly!
CRT announce the structure of future boat licence costs
Following the announcement on 19 September about changes to future boat licensing, the Canal & River Trust is today giving further details about the increases in licence fees to be applied from 1 April 2024 for boats without a home mooring and for wide beam boats. Licences for all boats on the Trust’s waterways will […]
Boater energy grant latest
This week we have seen a response from the gov. dept. It is the same generic letter as everyone else, basically saying hard luck, if you are down as having a ‘home mooring’ you won’t get the money. We will follow up again. The MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger is still trying to find a […]
