We're just back from a 6 day cruise and we've had a great time. Luckily we started on Friday, so we just missed the great storm on T...

I went over to the boat today to deliver our new chair - a high backed grandad type, and a load of logs for the fire. It was a good job I h...

The one thing the previous owners of Herbie wouldn't pass on to us was a nice old high backed carver chair in the saloon. Apparently it ...

I had a nice letter today from our boatyard (High Line Yachting) , wishing me a happy new year etc and mentioning that mooring fees are goi...

We popped over to the boat the other day to check it was still floating and to measure up what Kath calls the "back" shelves, whic...

Any boater reading this will already have heard the news that the EC have refused to let HMG allow continued use of red diesel for pleasure ...

No Herbie trips to report at the moment, although we did a short canal visit last week when we went (by car) to Banbury which is on the Oxfo...

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...