A quick dash up to Yelvertoft Marina today for a boat test.  It was snowing quite heavily when we arrived -- that's snow on Crack Hil...

I had a boat test to do in Stoke on Trent today, so we made a weekend of it.  Yesterday we drove up to Cheshire to see my sister and her fam...

The February edition of Canal Boat  is out, and includes my boat test of the Braidbar boat, Mirabilis.

Actually, not so much of a cruise, as we didn't actually go anywhere.  This morning, all the ice had gone, but it was a miserable day --...

Another clear night and another very frosty morning. With no prospect of going anywhere, we drove down to Cow Roast, and visited L...

We woke to another hard frost, and another very sunny day.  The ice on the marina was still thick -- it was even a job to break it by bashin...

It was a very cold night, but the fire stayed in so it wasn't too bad on board.  It takes a while for the fabric of the boat to feel war...