We had a lovely evening with Catherine, Nigel, Grace, and Matthew last night.  During the evening, the three Gayton hire boats which had app...

Dry this morning, and we set off about 9.30.  Two hire boats from Gayton had already come down and there was a third at the bottom lock, wit...

I worked a night shift last night, so Adrian dropped me at the station to go to work, and carried on up to the boat.  This morning, by the t...

The July Canal Boat is out, and includes my boat test on Intentionally Blank by Narrowboats Of Distinction . 

A dash to Sheffield for a boat test today. There’s some rather spectacular new graffiti art work along the canal since we were last up here....

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...