Letters
Star letter: Traffic wardens for the waterways?
31 May 2013
CALLING all continuous cruisers – do you know your way of life is under threat?
Star Letter: Will Birchills grant extend to maintenance programme?
25 April 2013.
IT IS a tragedy that the wooden day boat Birchills has been allowed to degenerate to a point where such a massive amount of money is now to be spent on restoration (News, Issue 90, April).
All early canals were designed for wide boats
25 April 2013.
PLEASE can I put Ken Cummings straight on his version of canal history (Talkback, Issue 90, April). All early waterways in Britain were designed for wide boats, and it was only during the construction of the Grand Trunk Canal, now known as the Trent & Mersey Canal, that narrowboats and narrow locks were introduced.
Star Letter: Pearls of wisdom... and all while watching paint dry
26 March 2013.
A COLLEAGUE and I recently attended one of Phil Speight’s boat painting courses at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port; not sure what I expected, but it just wasn’t what I thought it would be.
From nature reserve to linear park
26 March 2013.
REFERRING to the letters page (Talkback, Issue 88, February) regarding vegetation cutting by the Canal & River Trust, the reply from the East Midlands waterway manager contains a lot of pseudo scientific reasons for the removal of perfectly good trees from the towpath in order to placate the writer of the complaining letter.
Swan poaching may be more widespread
28 February 2013.
WE ARE writing in response to the report Swans killed for food (News, Issue 88, February). My husband and I were narrowboating near March in Cambridgeshire last year when we were nearly rammed by a small boat with three men on board who were coming down the wrong side of the river.
Star Letter: Help boaters trying to find a mooring to call home
28 February 2013.
WITH reference to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Canal & River Trust and the Residential Boat Owners’ Association collaboration projects: Develop opportunities for new residential moorings solutions on CRT’s waterways (RBOA Soundings, January/February 2013).
Is the industry reaching saturation point?
24 January 2013.
YOU asked for readers’ views on this subject (Talkback, Issue 87, January). In the Braunston area this has already gone past saturation point and is going to get worse and I blame the Canal & River Trust for the problem.
Navigating the Rochdale 9 flight
20 December 2012.
I READ with interest Alan Clare’s contrasting experiences on the Bosley and Rochdale 9 lock flights (Talkback, Issue 86, December) and can understand his comments, but must point out that it would be difficult to find two more different flights of locks.
Marinas trying to provide service to boaters
22 November 2012.
I HAVE to ask myself whether R Stewart actually boats on the River Soar (Talkback, Issue 85, November). Between Leicester and Redhill there are some nine small to large marinas most of which have a proportion of empty berths.
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