Salutary lesson of 'life afloat' on inland waterways
JONATHAN C Purton’s experience of living aboard is a salutary lesson for everyone 'taken in' by the idyll that is life afloat on our beautiful, sunny and warm inland waterways.
Naïve narrowboat buyers
JUST read yet another article from a naïve narrowboat buyer, writes John Howard.
Three men in a boat
INSPIRED by Jerome K Jerome’s 1889 novel, Three Men In A Boat, three men are to row from Oxford to London in a fundraising challenge.
Man in canal was murdered
THE police have revealed that a man discovered in a canal had been murdered.
Another non reason mysterious closure!
THE navigation closure notices nowadays from Canal & River Trust are completely devoid of information.
Victor: And the rains came...
THE rains came indeed with one storm piling on another flooding the rivers.
Winter living on a narrowboat
AS A REGULAR reader of your site I have an idea you have done something like this before, but would like to tell of my own experience of narrowboat living, writes Jonathan C Purton.
Will CaRT now sort its own 'inappropriate' mooring?
BOATERS are asking that now Canal & River Trust is introducing 'inappropriate' mooring will it now moor its own 'appropriately'?
Weather prevents Foxton Flight public viewing
THE proposed Open Day this week-end at Foxton Flight as been cancelled.
Northern river floods close navigations
SUCH as been the amount of rain that the rivers—and so the river navigations—in the north are flooded.