I've been reading up on the restoration of the Cotswold canals, which when completed would link the upper Thames to Gloucester and the S...

We haven't been to the canal this week, but we did pop down to Portsmouth on Friday. An interesting contrast in boating scenes. How abou...

The Slough arm is straight, narrow and five miles long, and there always seems to be something interesting to see. Take this week for exampl...

Insurance renewals remind us that it’s now a year since we took over Herbie (well 9 Feb actually). As a final trip we took out Steve, my bes...

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...