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Why not start at the beginning?

WITH so many canals closed and under restrictions we took to the rivers for our long cruise this year, writes Helen Cripps.

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Published: 04 October 2018

A blinkered view of the Llangollen Canal

IN REPLY to Geoff Hardy's uneventful, fully maintenance free, enjoyable cruise on the Llangollen Canal, writes Wayne Abbott. 

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Published: 04 October 2018

Two speeding hire boats sink narrowboat

TWO hire boats manned by drunks speeding against each other swamped and sank a resident's boat leaving him homeless.

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Published: 04 October 2018

No maintenance problems

WHEN considering a canal holiday I read your site and was worried about the many complaints about the canals state of lack of maintenance, writes Geoff Hardy.

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Published: 03 October 2018

What does it mean?

WHAT does it mean? 'An elusive motor'—plus innumerable other examples of CaRT's incompetent stoppage communications, asks John Coxon.

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Published: 03 October 2018

What does it mean?

Way back in August, overnight closures were put on various London waterways locks.

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Published: 03 October 2018

An elusive motor

IT WAS on Tuesday of last week that once again the Ivy Lift Bridge on the Caldon Canal gave up the ghost.

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Published: 03 October 2018

Further canal sections reopen

THE Canal & River Trust has announced that further lock flights and sections of canal in the North of England are able to reopen following recent rainfall.

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Published: 01 October 2018

Canal & River Trust caused sale

AFTER 10 years of narrowboating Canal & River Trust has caused me to give it up, writes Brian Hawkins.

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Published: 01 October 2018

Twenty-odd years later...

I FIRST rented a narrowboat in 1986, from Braunston Boats, myself, wife and two teenage daughters, who were less than enthusiastic! Writes Geoff Low.

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Published: 01 October 2018

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