Narrowboat

Silhouette is a shared boat managed by Ownerships, and whilst we’ve survived the floods okay, unfortunately Oasis Too haven’t fared as well. Luckily no one was on board, and the boats now been on national TV.

Warwickshire Ring Day 5 (16th May 2007) Grand Union Canal The final section of my cruise around the Warwickshire Ring has been uploaded, for your perusal. This involved going through the wide locks all the way down to Calcutt, to where the boat is based for this year. We did the initial ones alone, including [...]

Those of you in the UK probably have seen the images on the News about the flooding on the Stratford Canal and the Severn and Avon areas. For those outside, I’ve uploaded a couple of clips that you may not have seen. Peter Jackson phoned in to tell of his boat having risen in the [...]

Plans to re-route the Wilts & Berks canal through the centre of Melksham are to be shown at an exhibition. (Headline from BBC News) Just read a piece on the new route for the Wilts & Berks Canal on BBC News “Much of the original canal was lost to housing, and redirecting it around the [...]

British Waterways have closed down their freight arm because it was slightly loss making with costs of £1M against £0.7M back in revenue. When you consider they also made close to £70M profit on property, is this £0.3M really crucial? At a time when concerns over global warming are high, you’d think the government would [...]