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Tragedy highlights need for marina safety ladders
A coroner has called for better safety ladders in marinas, after a boater fell in at a Thames marina in the dark in March 2023…
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Fenny Marina joins Cruise Moor
The five independent inland marinas that launched the Cruise Moor scheme in 2023 have welcomed a sixth – Fenny Marina –into the fold.
Cruise Moor…
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Call for compulsory purchase of Oxford boatyard
The 30-year campaign for development of Oxford’s derelict Jericho Wharf has reached a new stage.
The Jericho Wharf Trust, a pressure group founded in 2012…
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Changes to prebookable moorings in London
Last year, the Canal & River Trust introduced additional, chargeable moorings at five locations on London’s most popular stretches of canal, to guarantee that boaters…
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Profiles
The Rothen Group
With a fleet of 200 craft and contracts for a host of canal-related work, the Rothen Group is a household name in the inland boating industry. Yet, the company is barely a decade old. Andrew Denny finds out more…
The dark green workboats of the Rothen Group have now become almost as familiar a sight around the waterways as the bright blue maintenance craft of the Canal & River Trust. What is especially remarkable is that this young company has grown – from a standing start – to become the UK’s main supplier of all types of floating plant equipment on the canals in little more than a decade. …
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Product News
Molabo Aries i50 electric inboard motor
A new design of marine electric motor from Germany is promising to shake up the market for electric propulsion for…
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Floating windlass
The new Lock Otter is a tough steel windlass that floats, should you be careless enough to drop it in…
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New business at Shobnall
A new boatyard business has opened at Burton-on-Trent’s Shobnall Marina.
Working from the covered dry dock that was once the…
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Liquid Transfer Pump
A handy device if you're toting jerrycans or other large liquid containers is a liquid transfer pump. Pouring 20 litres…
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