Yesterday, I went over to Worcester for a day of boating with Ortomarine — who’d organised a day of trials comparing diesel and hybrid elect...

Our long stay at Aylesbury Basin last month gave me plenty of time to update Paul Balmer of Waterway Routes on some changes to the mooring t...

A quick trip to Banbury today for a boat test — and the building work both sides of the canal is much advanced from when we were here in Sep...

The May issue of Canal Boat is out and includes my boat test on Whitsuntide No2 by Trinity Boats .

With bad weather forecast, especially strong winds this afternoon, we made another early start at 7.30 — or we would have if it hadn’t taken...

Finally free to leave, we slipped away from Aylesbury Basin at 7.30 — making our way steadily up the Arm. At the staircase locks at the top,...

I had to go to work today, and fortunately Aylesbury Station is just a few minutes walk from the basin.  Adrian had a visit from a former co...