NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOAT OWNERS
NABO Press Release on the Boaters’ Manifesto
At its most recent meeting at the end of November, NABO Council agreed to formally endorse the Key Points in the Boaters Manifesto. NABO Vice Chair, Simon Robbins said: “We are pleased to see that an independent group of boaters shares broadly the same concerns as we identified in our formal submission to DEFRA during […]
Cost cutting threatens residency of Thames lock keepers
The Environment Agency (EA) are intending to go back on their 2008 agreement to keep resident lock keepers at all 45 Thames locks.
Ribble Link draughts 2012
BW have recently decided that they ought to be enforcing their draught limits on the Ribble Link from 2012 onwards. Up to the present, the published limit has been 2 foot, but this has not been checked.
Launch of Thames Tunnel Now!
The tidal reaches of the Thames are regularly polluted by sewage discharges from the combined sewer overflows after rainfall.
NABO responds to second NWC consultation
NABO has responded to DEFRA's second consultation on the NWC.
BW publishes new guidance for boats without a home mooring
British Waterways (BW) is today publishing updated, more concise mooring guidance for boats without a home mooring.
More info on Olympic/Paralympic navigation restrictions
Further details of planned restrictions to navigation in London were released by British Waterways last week, (Waterscape press release here). In effect a zone from Little Venice to the Lea Bridge Road at Hackney Marshes will become a closed area between 03 July and 10 September 2012, with boat transits and movements in that zone […]
“British Waterways couldn’t even organise …… “
Bob Naylor, a freelance reporter from Devizes went to a meeting in Devizes about the transfer of BW to the New Waterways Charity addressed by David Bruce, President of the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust and came away with a startling report.
Chair people sought for Waterways Partnerships
NABO Chairman, David Fletcher, says that it is vital that the right people are recruited to chair the new Waterways Partnerships being floated by the new waterways charity's transitional trustees.
RCR provide information on the Diesel Bug
RCR have provided an article on the all important issue of bio diesel and the dreaded bug. All boaters with diesel engines should read this and take note!
