NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOAT OWNERS
2016/17 Winter Moorings
2016/17 Winter Moorings Winter moorings permits for between one and five months will go on sale from 3rd October. They will be available at fixed locations from 1st November to 31st March 2017. There are four price bands: Band 1 – £15 per metre per month – mooring rings or bollards, within walking distance […]
Membership Team Issues
Membership Team Issues Most of our members pay by standing order or other electronic means. If you do not, please consider it. It saves on our administration processes, reduces delays, and means less work for the admin team who can then spend more time boating. We send details with your renewal. Most new members these […]
Chairman’s column, NABO News #4
Focus on the Thames and K&A Chairman Mike Rodd has some good, and less good, news of these adjoining waterways. I hope that you have all enjoyed some wonderful summer cruising days and probably now starting your pre-wintering work, getting your boat ready for the colder days ahead. We spent last week replacing the coach-lines […]
NABO News Editorial
Lock failures, too much vegetation or too little water? Editor Peter Fellows offers some choices for NABO to focus on
Report on CRT National Users Forum September 7th 2016
As usual this was held at The Bond in Birmingham, and followed the usual structure of a series of presentations by various CRT officers. Whist this information is of interest, and the people-networking is valuable, one can’t help feeling that the approach does not make full use of the large numbers of representatives of the […]
Thames lock closures for winter 2016
EA has updated their web site with the plans for this winter. You can see the details here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/river-thames-conditions-closures-restrictions-and-lock-closures
CRT Winter Stoppages 2016-17
CRT has published the list of winter stoppages for the coming period. Members are urged to take a look to see how it may affect their cruising plans over the season. The details can be found here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/winter
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Waterways Ombudsman issues Annual Report
The Waterways Ombudsman, Andrew Walker, and the Waterways Ombudsman Committee, have issued their combined Annual Reports for 2015/16. The Ombudsman’s Report shows that the number of complaints entering the Canal & River Trust’s complaint process rose from 185 to 222, although this was still fewer than the 232 in 2013/14. During the year the Ombudsman […]
If you can smell exhaust fumes in your boat, don’t ignore them!!!
Boaters need to pay attention to exhaust gases, particularly petrol engine exhaust fumes if they can smell them in the boat’s cabins because they can contain carbon monoxide (CO) in quantities that will harm or kill warns UK Parliamentarians and the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS).
