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Air Pollution from Moored Boats Let's Hear It For NABOThe Magazine of the National NewsAssociation of Boat Owners Issue 6 Winter 2017 AIR POLLUTION FROM MOORED BOATS LET’S HEAR IT FOR BUGSWORTH CAN YOU HEAR ME? 2 The NABO Council Regional Representatives Chair NW Waterways Stella Ridgway Richard Carpenter (details left) NABO News The magazine of the National Association of Boat Owners 07904 091931 North East, Yorkshire and Humber, Shared [email protected] Ownership Rep. Issue 5 October 2017 Vice Chair, NAG (Licensing and Moorings), Howard Anguish Communications Officer, Moorings 01482 669876 Contents Mark Tizard [email protected], [email protected] London Waterways and NAG (Licensing & Mooring) 0203 4639806 4 Editorial [email protected] David Williams Treasurer 07813 496208 5 In the Chair Helen Hutt [email protected] 6 Fly on the wall 07831 682092 South East 10 Around the Regions; North East and Geoff Wood [email protected] West Midlands Legal Affairs and Continuous Cruising 07968 491118 Mike Rodd [email protected] 12 News: Increased registration and 07831 860199 Southern Waterways licence fees. Cut in CRT’s winter works [email protected] Andy Colyer spend. CRT restructuring. Changes to NABO News Editor 07733 364856 RCD. Towpath time-trials by cyclists. Peter Fellows [email protected] 15 Thames mooring not in the Thames. 19 High Street, Bonsall, Derbyshire, DE4 2AS Geoffrey Rogerson 01629 825267 07768 736593 16 Report: Air pollution from moored Midlands Waterways boats. [email protected] Cover photo Webmaster, NAG (Operations) and BSS Rep. Phil Goulding (details left) 23 User Groups: EA’s User’s Forum. David S. Fletcher East Midlands Waterways 24 Boating: Let’s hear it for Bugsworth. This month’s cover photo is “Rush Hour” tak- 07719 276659 Joan Jamieson [email protected] 0115 981 2047 27 Talking points: Can you hear me? en near Bradford-on-Avon by Andrew Stevens Continuous Cruising Rep. [email protected] 30 Letters whose wonderful photography, including this Phil Goulding West Midlands image, is available to buy as prints on his website; 01271 865340 Alison Tuck Next NABO News copy date www.andrewstevensphotography.com/shop/. [email protected] [email protected] Floating Traders, Regional Reps Coordinator and Anglian Waterways Win a year’s free membership by having your pho- Boater Liaison Rep. Vacant Articles, letters, cartoons and photos are to selected for the front cover of NABO News. most welcome. Images in JPEG format please. Alison Tuck North Wales & Borders Please email photos as JPEG attachments, ideally Please email or post your contributions by 07450 108659. David Fletcher (details left) portrait format with a file size of 2MB or larger. [email protected] Welsh Waterways January 27th 2018. Our email address is Paul Howland Mike Rodd (details left) [email protected]. 07443 635587 River Severn [email protected] Vacant Minutes Secretary River Thames Vacant Graham Paterson 0118 986 3959 General Sec, Promotion and Recruitment [email protected] Richard Carpenter Mill House End Farm, Leyland, Lancashire Additional Contacts PR26 9HB, Assistant For The Disabled NABO News is published by the National Association of Boat Owners 07989 441674 or 01772 600886 Ken Hylins [email protected] PO Box 104, Leyland PR25 9AN Editor: Peter Fellows Production: Chris Pink 07852 911539 NABO Online [email protected] Whilst every care is taken to ensure that the contents of this newsletter are factually correct, we accept no liability for any direct Administration or consequential loss arising from any action taken by anyone as a result of reading anything contained in this publication. The facebook.com/master.nabo Sue Burchett views expressed are not necessarily those of the Association. The products and services advertised in this publication are not Mark Tizard [email protected] necessarily endorsed by the Association. Twitter @NABO_Official David Fletcher CRT Emergency No: 0800 4799947 EA Emergency No: 0800 807060 Contact CRT waterway managers at canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/our-regions NABO News Issue 6 Winter 2017 4 5 The Editor’s Column In the Chair s 2017 draws to a close, it is proposed increases to boat registra- s another year ends and your voice in the Canal and River clear that CRT is focussed on tion fees, it ignored the consultation Christmas approaches, the Trust, and we can only do that with its grant renewal, which will findings and went ahead with the summer boaters are busy your help. Arequire it to demonstrate to original proposals for steep hikes Awinterising their boats, livea- There are plans submitted to re- Government that it has widespread in the costs. A diligent boater has boards are eyeing places to get free move the wharf at Marple and build popular support. This means pro- also found that EA’s introduction of wood and ensuring that they have houses on it. (In Marsworth, this moting the waterways to millions charges for mooring on the Thames organised a delivery from their lo- has resulted in boaters being asked of walkers, cyclists, canoeists and is illegal. cal coal-boat. We are lucky to have not to run their engines at all. In gongoozlers as part of its wellbeing Also in November, we were sad- fortnightly coal-boat runs; please Macclesfield, the water point was or ‘green gym’ campaign. The 35,000 dened to hear of the untimely death support your coal-boats—they are moved and the visitor moorings are boaters are incidental to this. of Trevor Rogers; Mike Rodd and the lifeblood of the canals in winter. rendered useless because of the ‘No Geoffrey Rogerson have written The winter mooring season has Engine Running’ rule). NABO has of his important contribution to begun and those who don’t have a put in a robust submission oppos- NABO Council over many years. home mooring can take advantage The problem of air pollution in of these, although I have to say I Is anyone London has prompted the Mayor to haven’t noticed a big uptake in our suggest that smoke and fumes from area. Where they do seem popular, The winds of moored boats should be reduced I notice they are priced accordingly. and the Waterway Ombudsman re- My treatment has prevented listening? ported two cases of complaints on me from travelling too much and I this issue. must arrange things around it. We change Editor Peter Fellows has a little rant NABO has responded to the are still trying to get a haemodialy- Mayor’s consultation. There are sis machine on our boat; we seem also reports from our regional to be caught up in the inevitable red Stella Ridgway gets ready for winter reps, Howard Anguish in the North tape that surrounds such things, As a result, NABO is becoming East and Alison Tuck in the West but we are still hoping to get there. ing the Marple plans and I attended increasingly concerned that its voice Midlands, and Stella Ridgway sings The next round of quarterly CRT a Marple Area Planning meeting is not being listened to by senior the praises of Bugsworth Basin on meetings is not due to start until in December. We will publicise the CRT managers and directors. We the Peak Forest Canal. Developers January, but NABO has been ex- outcome when it is known. are no longer a ‘critical friend’; just are threatening the wharf at Marple amining the Annual Report. The Finally, may we take this op- critical. Members who attended Junction on this canal and Alison boating and licensing income was portunity of wishing you a Merry the AGM in November discussed reports on other proposals to de- £45m and £38m was the entire main- Christmas and Happy New Year. the long list of recent decisions by velop two canalside sites in central tenance budget (dredging comes Safe winter boating and we’ll see you CRT that have disregarded the ad- Birmingham. out of that), so boaters paid for all all on the water in 2018. vice offered by NABO (and CRT’s I was horrified to come across a the maintenance on the system—so National Advisory Groups), and Fly website used by sportspeople to re- much for boaters not paying their on the Wall recorded some of these cord their fastest times, which has way—yet they spent £22.8m on vol- for this issue. There is also an article cyclists competing to see who can unteer management and training. by Jenny Maxwell, reprinted from a ride fastest along towpaths, includ- Facebook forum, which sums up the ing the Worcs & Birmingham canal How to change things then? frustrations felt by a large number of to Edgbaston—utterly selfish behav- NABO is as good as our members: boaters and boating organisations. iour that can only result in a serious please subscribe if you have liked We will wait to see if the recent injury or worse. CRT’s decision to our Facebook page or follow us on restructuring of senior CRT staff reduce the width of Edgbaston Twitter. It costs £25 per year, and for makes any difference. But let’s not Tunnel for boaters, to accommodate this you get this excellent reference hold our breath—none has boating a wider towpath, can only help these magazine and the support of experi- experience and, with the replace- cyclists go faster. enced boaters. We are listened to by ment of Trustee, John Dodwell, this Whether you’re out on the water- the Trust and we have NABO mem- means that there are now no boaters ways or planning next year’s cruising, bers on CRT’s Council and National on the CRT Board.
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