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The DBA Knowledgebase contains  articles written by members or composed from comments by members in the Forum.   

Some articles give hard fact - like those about Regulations.    Other subjects have no single answers, so the article may be a selection of comments from the Forum that would be hard to find otherwise.  With boats, there are often many 'right' answers to a question.

Browsing and searching the Knowledgebase is reserved for DBA members except for the section on 'Buying a Barge'. Prospective barge buyers will also find answers to many questions in our Barge Buyers Handbook, on sale in the DBA shop.

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