When I made a box to keep windlasses, mooring chains and stakes etc last time, I should have learned the lesson from my first roof box - do...

 Quite a number of my readers will have met my (very) old pal Rick and some of them know that he is officially a brilliant engineer.  What t...

It was fun watching that ship stuck in the Suez canal wasn't it?  I expect that other canal boaters were like me and Kath shouting ...

Looking into Herbie's crystal ball, what do I see for the coming season? Yay verily, I see hordes of stay-cation boaters merrily chuggin...

 Tomorrow we take our first look at Herbie since November.  Will the engine 'ole be full of rainwater? Will the stern gland have leaked?...

If you're quick and take a look at the bottom of  today's BBC News site, there's an interesting set of photos of CRT volunteers ...

 We boaters know all about light at the end of tunnels.  It's often further away than it looks.  However CRT's latest update talks n...

 How are you off for cardboard boxes?  We've been collecting them at an alarming rate since lockdown has driven us to buying loads of st...

 "Hauling by horses is still the system most used on the general body of the inland waterways, and in it must be including hauling by m...

 A bit more cheery this week don't you think?  For a start, Kath and I have had our first jabs now.   Less than five minutes from home i...

How ya doin'? Despite the cold and the isolation and the wait for the jab and poor old Herbie left alone in the cold and all that, there...

Do you read your insurance policy details?  I thought I ought perhaps skim through them this time as I came to renew Herbie's insurance,...