abandoned boats

  • Focus on reliability as trust steps up support for boaters

    Focus on reliability as trust steps up support for boaters

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    With more boats taking to the waterways as the better weather arrives, the Canal & River Trust is renewing its pledge to do more to tackle the issues most important to boaters. THE trust is encouraging people out on the cut to report faulty paddles, spots that need more dredging, places with overgrown vegetation and…

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  • Biggest boat clean-up in a decade underway on Upper Thames

    Biggest boat clean-up in a decade underway on Upper Thames

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    ‘Sunk, wrecked, abandoned – they’ve got to go,’ says Environment Agency as Thames boat crackdown continues “Sunk, wrecked, abandoned – they’ve got to go.” That is the message from the Environment Agency’s deputy director of navigation as 53 boats have already been removed in an ongoing crackdown on the non-tidal Thames. The agency is on…

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