You may well have seen reports of the many Save Our Waterways protests that happened over the weekend. We were unable to get out to our nea...

This is a picture of Olive, a converted Humber Keel that resides at Cowley on the Grand Union. We pass her every time we go North from our ...

Despite the short days and variable temperatures, the canals are looking lovely at the moment with all their autumn colours. last Friday and...

Herbie was retested today by the Boat Safety Examiner and we passed:-). Not without some difficulty I might add. The inspector's manom...

I couldn't resist taking this photo yesterday when I was at the boatyard. What a fantastic patchwork hull. More interesting than a lot o...

Curses. I got a phone call to say I still had a small gas leak on the boat when they retested following my fitting of a new regulator and ho...

Boat Safety inspection this morning and Herbie almost passed. Electrics good, fuel lines / engine good, extinguishers etc good, gas applianc...

We've been away at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire for the annual bash of the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club . As well as meeting up with old fri...

I'm just back from my weekend course on Boat Electrics, complete with my certificate to prove it. Of course the certificate doesn't ...

Just back from a few days on Herbie with friends Jan and Stephen. The weather forecast was for rain, but luckily it didn't, so we had a ...

Over the weekend we walked the canal rather than boated it. Visting friends Rick and Marylin in Long Buckby we went for a walk in Braunston,...

I had an hour to kill near Guildford today, so I popped down to the River Wey near Shalford to have a look. This is one river we might take ...