A quick visit today to Hanbury Wharf for a boat test.  For some reason there’s a lighthouse there.  My route took me up the M5 over the R...

A quick dash up to Northamptonshire today.  I first went to the marina to pick up a couple of things from the boat and drop off a couple of ...

Here are some stats for our trip. 290 miles and 303 locks, of which 138 were narrow locks and 165 were wide.  67 of the miles were on r...

The November issue of Canal Boat is out, and includes my boat test on a spec boat built by Yelvertoft Marina.  The front cover is one of ...

It was raining again this morning, but at least it was fairly gentle and it was very calm.  I set off at 8.30 and found Cosgrove Lock was em...

This was another day when we expected to get very wet, because the forecast was was rain pretty much all day.  And there was rain last night...

We had a very nice evening with Catherine, Nigel, and the kids — with good fish and chips delivered by them to our door.  They needed an esc...