- BCN New Main Line
- BCN Old Main Line
- BCN Titford Canal
- Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
- B&F Digbeth Branch
- Coventry Canal
- Grand Union Digbeth Branch
- Grand Union Leicester Line
- Grand Union Mainline
- Llangollen Canal
- Middlewich Arm
- Montgomery Canal
- North Oxford Canal
- Prees Arm
- Shropshire Union main line
- Trent and Mersey Canal
- Whitchurch Arm
Saturday 27 April 2024
Annual Report
Saturday 13 April 2024
Curiosity on test
The May Canal Boat is out, and includes my boat test on Curiosity, by Boating Leisure Services. This boat will also be at the Crick Boat Show at the end of May.
Thursday 4 April 2024
Rain
I came up to the boat after work yesterday. The Eberspacher took a couple of goes to get running, but everything else was fine. I was woken several times in the night by torrential rain, and this morning the marina road was more like a lake.
I had to go to Dunchurch Pools for a boat test, but I was ready early so I stopped at the little car park by the penultimate Stoke Bruerne lock and walked along to see how the Tove was doing. The overflow entry of the river was running, showing how much water there is about.
The boat test went well, and despite there being some rain, the sun struggled out for the five minutes we needed it.
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Thursday 8 February 2024
Friday 5 January 2024
Tuesday 26 December 2023
Christmas Cruise: Day 4
An alarm at 3.45am, as I had work this morning. It was a ten minute walk along the towpath to the car, which we had moved into Cosgrove on Christmas Eve. It was clear and cold, with bright moonlight.
I came back to the marina after my shift, and Adrian had walked along to meet me. We walked back to the boat, passing these characters in Cosgrove.
After lunch we set off back to the marina.
The lock needed turning, and we had an audience of walkers to watch us come up.
Unlike every other day this short trip there wasn’t a breath of wind. Even the marina was still, which sometimes means it’s harder to spin round to reverse into the berth, but actually it all went extremely well. An hour after setting off, we were all secure in our berth.
We have nothing planned for this afternoon; tomorrow we head home — me via work, and Adrian via his aunt and uncle in Kent.
1 mile, 1 lock. (3 miles, 2 locks)