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SAFETY: Fire awareness

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September 28, 2024

Ben Sutcliffe-Davies reports… MANY owners, during their lifetime on waterways, may be lucky enough to never see a fire on board. However, those who have had the misfortune to be on board either a narrowboat or a GRP motor boat will know that when a fire does break out, it can become life-threatening and extremely…
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ABC BOAT HIRE: New electric day boat

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September 27, 2024

ABC Boat Hire has launched another electrically powered day boat, this time at Alvechurch Marina on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal near Bromsgrove. The 36ft Fun Day narrowboat accommodates up to 10 people. Haley Hadley, ABC Leisure Group’s marketing and sales director, says: “Britain’s beautiful network of inland waterways is important for biodiversity, and the…
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TOP SEVEN canal boat holiday destinations for October

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September 26, 2024

NARROWBOATS are like floating holiday cottages, with everything holidaymakers need on board for a self-catering adventure afloat. All are equipped with essential home comforts, including central heating, hot water, TV, showers, and flushing toilets, and most now have Wi-Fi, too. Drifters offers the choice of 550 narrowboats available to hire from 45 bases across England,…
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TOP 10 PARTS that cause boaters grief

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September 25, 2024

River Canal Rescue (RCR) responded to 3335 callouts last year to help with issues such as electrical, fuel and engine problems, flat batteries, overheating and gearbox failures. Despite RCR’s best endeavours, parts do break down. So what are the top 10 parts that cause boaters the most grief, and how much do they cost to…
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SNAP UP a waterways calendar for charity

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September 24, 2024

Thirteen images have been chosen to appear in River Canal Rescue’s 2025 calendar (front cover and one for every month), which goes on sale later this year to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. THE competition attracted more than 375 entries, which the judges – RCR managing director Stephanie Horton, Canal Boat editor Charlie Waters…
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CLOSER LINKS: IWA and LCA

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September 23, 2024

Cicely Oliver reports… THE Lowland Canals Association (LCA) is exploring corporate Inland Waterways Association membership after a decision to form an alliance with the IWA. This will benefit the LCA by giving it access to the IWA’s experience, campaigning and commercial expertise. The LCA’s Neil Kitchener will be joining IWA’s lead in Scotland, Jonathan Mosse,…
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LEEDS & LIVERPOOL CANAL: History in Felt!

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September 21, 2024

The history of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is the focus of West Yorkshire felt artist Janine Jacques’ latest exhibition. Sally Clifford finds out more. BUILT 200 years ago, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was one of the most important waterway trade routes through the region. Coal and textiles were among the important cargo carried…
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PRACTICALITY FROM PERRYDALE: Fairweather’s Folly

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September 20, 2024

Phil Pickin went to see Perrydale Narrowboats’ latest new build on the day it first entered the water and found another high-quality boat from this popular boat builder. IT ISN’T often that you get to see a business grow and thrive, especially in the waterways sector, so for me, it has been interesting to watch…
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BEST IN THE UK! For Family-run canal boat hire business

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September 19, 2024

A FAMILY-RUN canal boat hire business in the Midlands has been crowned the best in the UK – by its customers. Union Canal Carriers, based in Braunston, Northamptonshire, topped the poll after achieving more than 1000 5-star reviews of its canal boat holidays. The business, which started in 1968, is still run by the Hewitt…
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150 YEAR CELEBRATION: Sharpness New Docks

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September 18, 2024

Tony Aldridge reports… JULY saw an event based around the Dockers Club, Sharpness as part of the programme of celebrations of 150 years since the opening of the Sharpness New Docks. When the Gloucester Sharpness Canal was completed in 1827 there was a smaller entrance lock to the River Severn but as trade boomed and…
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LLANGOLEN CANAL: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

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September 17, 2024

Nicola Lisle continues her museum series with a visit to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and the local heritage centre IT WAS Sir Walter Scott who described the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct as ‘the most impressive work of art I have ever seen’, a tribute both to its structural magnificence and its harmonious relationship with the surrounding landscape. This…
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HULL, HELL & HALIFAX: Freight watch

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September 16, 2024

Jonathan Mosse takes a look at freight development on the inland waterways… JOHN Taylor, also known – appropriately, it transpires – as the ‘water poet’, once wrote: ‘From Hull, Hell and Halifax may the Good Lord deliver us’. I am not qualified to speak of Halifax, nor yet of Hell, but I have sailed aboard…
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NEW FOCUS: For old firm…

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September 14, 2024

AN ESTABLISHED boat hire company is using its years of experience to refocus on engineering and helping customers maintain their boats. Family-owned Kate Boats is known for its fleet of self-drive narrowboats, and for 24 years the firm worked out of two yards in Warwickshire. Now, having earlier this year sold its base in Warwick…
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DONATION: For Restore the Montgomery Canal! group

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September 13, 2024

Phil Pickin reports… HOT on the heels of the recent official opening of the Schoolhouse Bridge on the Montgomery Canal, the Restore the Montgomery Canal! group has announced a charity donation from the Weeping Cross Fund, which was set up in the will of David Tomlinson, a pioneer of the movement to restore neglected waterways.…
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