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EA Newsletter Navigation update: What’s the latest? March 2024 Creating a better place for people and wildlife (BOATS?) Dear...

This is the current status of the downstream navigation arch at Cookham. A tree is wedged into the bridge guards. It arrived during the...

DVL and Ben Woolacott call up VTS every morning to announce the start of service and if it is one Boat or two. They also call at the end...

Limehouse seem to need a CRT licence. I don't think they are doing visitor moorings. The way to get around this is by having a 30 day...

I pootled the canals, rivers and almost made it to Hannington Bridge above Lechlade in Parglena. 60ft x 11ft6 ;) That picture is...

PSPO is an interesting tool. I could see a few Boats being abandoned and ending up on Sunbury weir. Its already got 2 or 3 on there...

Indeed. I started 38 years ago when I was 12. A lot of the intervening years were spent on canals but have always lived afloat since...

It will be 30,000kg. I had an English barge which was 57x12ft and 29 tons and a 90hp engine was just right for inland use. A bit more...

Parglena is 60ft 35ton and has a 120hp Ford, which was ample. Personally I wouldn't go below 90hp as a decent amount of power gives you...