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British Waterways are about to close the Tring Summit from Lock 39 Startops to 49 Northchurch. This area is not river fed and is suffering from the worst water shortage in many years.

On Valentine’s day last year my husband and I were in a pub talking about getting a bigger boat. I said that my perfect boat would be a 70 foot narrowboat, green, with side hatches and a ‘boatman’s cabin’. I’ve always fancied having the ...

After achieving her place in exploration history by being the first ever craft to be rowed to the Magnetic North Pole, the Christchurch 'Ice Boat' lived up to all expectations last Summer and more.

At the recent European Boatshed.com Conference held in London the excellence awards for the Boatshed group were announced.

As the only British crew member on-board, Brian Thompson, today clocked up two major records as the maxi trimaran, Banque Populaire V, crossed the Jules Verne Trophy finish line near Brest, France this evening.

Whether you’re looking to do some serious cruising, day sailing or use your motor boat as a live-a-board weekend retreat, the Sealine F43 ticks all the boxes, and then some.

So you crossed the Atlantic nearly 18 months ago and soon the tax vultures will start circling for their pound of your hard earned flesh. The time is fast approaching when you will have to pay VAT and if in Spain, Matriculation Tax. 

During the Industrial Revolution as the Irish navigators or “navvies” continued to build the waterways network, steerers were needed for the boats and lock keepers were required for a variety of maintenance tasks.

Looking for a live-aboard in London? Check out this super-duper 20m Dutch Barge with a superb West London mooring.

Why not take a canal boat down the Thames and get a fantastic view of the New Year’s Eve fireworks on the London Eye? Sadly, bravely cruising into the night without a place to moor is not as safe as it sounds. Moorings are usually passenger pier...

Now the yachties amongst us might be used to mud berths and water dissapearing down the beach and rolling back again with predictable if somewhat inconvenient regularity but we canal boaters find this kind of behaviour rather unusual and low tides...

Southsea Marina to see the arrival of a new pump out and waste disposal facility

Check out these quality boats in the next BoatBid.com boat auction.
The Auction ends in less than 22 days from today.

About once a month I take our boat to a marina to top up on diesel and empty the toilet. For her own safety my toddler daughter is sat on the hatch cover and secured to the roof with a safety harness while we cruise.
As we pass under a bridge...

HO! HO! HO! Santa’s elves thought of everything on this 2000 Rinker 340 fiesta vee!

- stern thruster
- generator
- inverter Chartplotter/Fishfinder
- 32’ Flatscreen TV
- cockpit refrigerator
- elec...

Ah Christmas time. Time to winterise your canal boat and lock yourself safely into a warm house. Or is it? There are lots of festive events planned on the waterways this December.

Courage

New website backs Government’s encouragement for living on boats
THE world’s number one online yacht brokerage system is about to launch a brand new website which could boost the government’s campaign to have more people living on the wa...

We have a wide choice of barges for sale in France and if you are serious about buying one you should be reading this.

How does the old song go? You say potato, I say tomato? A narrow boat was traditionally a cargo carrying boat found on the British inland waterways from the 18th century onwards. On the UK navigable waterways locks and bridge holes are a minimum o...