Narrowboat

I’ve been on the Avon, the Severn, and the Thames, but all are inland where the main danger is to try and not go after heavy rain when the current gets strong. Unlike the crew of Indigo Dream, who went out into the Severn Estuary, with a pilot of course, but in heavy fog.

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In recent times there’s been news in a slowdown in new developments, so it looked like the continuous change in the waterfront in Leeds to be on pause, though the YEP, reported on a £48million project to change the Leeds Tower Works.

It looks like a large development incorporating old with the new in a “hi-tech [...]

It’s been reported on the Derbyshire BBC News site that the police are launching a scheme to target canal crime. This seems to mainly be circulating an information pack, which I can assume will be similar to one I received at home a while ago when the police were targeting crime in my locality, with [...]

It seems Andrew Denny and myself have been following each other’s posts over domain names. Now I suppose http://nboat.tk isn’t too memorable and if someone’s trying to remember it after being told in a pub/lock/etc may just remember it as nboat-dot-something-or-other. However it is probably better than some random short URL redirection service (they are [...]

I’ve mostly been on boats in the UK, though occasionally been on pleasure boats abroad, such as cruise to Egypt, channel ferry, and a passenger pleasure boat through Paris. I wasn’t set up with time lapse equipment at those times, so sadly no footage. However, Kevin a fellow time lapse boater, sent me a [...]