The February Canal Boat is out, and has my boat test on a stock boat by Russell Narrowboats. 

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 Day, and the wind had finally dropped.  We treated ourselves to a cooked breakfast, then as it wasn’t raining, set off.  We were v...

The forecast for today was for 40mph winds, so we were always unlikely to be going anywhere.  We also had a visit planned, from my second co...

Adrian wasn’t working yesterday, so came up to the marina first thing.  He did a stock take and then went shopping at a packed Tesco in Wolv...

The January Canal Boat is out, and includes my boat test on Stargazer , by Knights Narrowboats.

Up to Mercia Marina today for a boat test — in fact we did two. Sunny, but rather breezy and pretty cold!  At least there are always good to...