narrowboatworld
  • Home
  • Information
  • Contact Us
  • Hire Guide

Grounded on the Trent

A BOAT was grounded on the Trent at Gunthorpe earlier this week, with all attempts at getting off the bottom in vain.

Details
Published: 31 October 2012

Teaching boating

Having read both articles from Victor and Orph regarding the pro's and con's of teaching people boating, then issuing certificates to show abilities of competence.  I tend to disagree with both articles, writes Peter Ponting.

Details
Published: 29 October 2012

Time and money for wildlfe

THERE is a move to get people to give their time and make donations towards improving wildlife on and around the Chesterfield Canal.

Details
Published: 29 October 2012

Mystery over canal death

THE family of Jack Sykes who was found dead in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal near Milsbridge are desperate to discover how he came to be drowned in the reeds of the waterway.

Details
Published: 29 October 2012

Logs from straw

BOATERS with stoves are often on the look-out for something to burn, and so a product from Mathew Bremner should be of great interest.

Details
Published: 29 October 2012

New bridge over Thames

THE two temporary crossings of the Thames at Walton are at last in the process of being replaced, by a new bridge.

Details
Published: 29 October 2012

Major cultural change needed

THE note by Chris Love on the apparent shortage of volunteers reminds me of a couple of events during my recent run through the West Midlands and down to the Severn, writes David Lyneham-Brown.

Details
Published: 29 October 2012

Email: Boaters' Handbook

I must thank Mike Spick for pointing out my 'ignorance' and pointing me to the already existing Boaters Handbook. I have only been boating for nine years and bow to his superior knowledge.

Details
Published: 27 October 2012

Mon & Brec to close

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) will close the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal near Llangattock until the middle of March next year amid safety fears of a breach, writes Allan Richards.

Details
Published: 27 October 2012

Trent boats upset anglers

ANGLERS have been complaining of the speeds of boats on the Trent, but wrongly, as they have been told the wrong speed limit.

Details
Published: 26 October 2012

Page 1120 of 1398

  • 1115
  • 1116
  • 1117
  • 1118
  • 1119
  • 1120
  • 1121
  • 1122
  • 1123
  • 1124

Latest

  • Victor tells the trust could have saved millions of gallons of water every day
  • Broken paddle at Watford Locks
  • Water returns to Montgomery Canal at Llanymynech
  • Breakages close waterways
  • Leicester Section closure extended
  • Who are they kidding?
  • Restoration boosts the Montgomery Canal for visitors and boating
  • Environment Agency steps in to maintain Severn levels
  • Massive length of Leicester Section closed and locked off
  • Possibility of Lancaster Canal closing
  • Hopes to have Bridgewater Canal breach repaired by December
  • Foating market this weekend at Market Drayton
  • Lack of water closes Caldon Canal
  • Four flights closed on Old Main Line
  • Boaters and businesses complain about continous closure of Erewash Canal
  • Various problems close navigations
  • Navigations reopened
  • Eleven stoppages through various reasons
  • Weevils used to kill invasive weed
  • Swans injured on Chesterfield Canal

Search