8th March 2018
Cruise Guide: the Caldon Canal
No more than 20 miles long altogether, the Caldon and its arm to Leek manage to pack in as much interest as many much longer waterways - and some stunning Staffordshire scenery too
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7th February 2018
Steve Haywood: Can our centuries-old system survive the modern world?
Steve Haywood is an award-winning current affairs TV producer, journalist and author who has been a boat owner for nearly 40 years
7th February 2018
Discovering London’s lost canals
The Thames, the Lee, the Grand Union and the Regent weren’t the capital’s only waterways. A team from the London Canal Museum has been tracking down the rest of the city’s canals...
22nd January 2018
Cruise guide: Northern Oxford Canal
After the tortuous windings of the southern Oxford, the northern part comes as a contrast - a result of an 1830s shortening exercise whose traces are still visible to today’s leisure boaters
2nd January 2018
Steve Haywood: Stay positive with sound battery care
‘This time, however, I could have got the flywheel spinning like a Catherine wheel and it wouldn’t have made the slightest difference’
12th October 2017
Cruise Guide: The Macclesfield Canal
With the Cheshire Plain on one side and the Peak District hills on the other, the Macclesfield provides glorious views, splendid old mills, and a rhyme about a bear...
17th August 2017
Steve Haywood: Why the lightship affair is a mismanaged tragedy
Columnist Steve Haywood gives his two cents on the lightship affair
9th May 2017
Great Canal Walk: the Oxford Canal
Our walk begins in urban Banbury but the Oxford Canal quickly heads out to a more rural setting with a charming collection of lift-bridges
11th April 2017
Cruise guide: the Ashby Canal
A dead-end waterway with no locks and just the odd short tunnel and aqueduct, the Ashby Canal is nonetheless well worth a visit for the many miles of quiet midland scenery, and some interesting sites…
11th April 2017
Steve Haywood: it’s time to cater for the weekenders
“All weekenders are looking for is a safe place to leave their boat, and surely there are commercial possibilities for marinas to provide this facility”
29th March 2017
Great Canal Walk: Chester, Shropshire Union Canal and River Dee
Chester is well known for the popular circular walk around the ancient city walls. But we’ve combined them with the Shropshire Union Canal and River Dee to make a rather different circuit
