If there’s one “pro-tip” I can give you, to make your boating easier and safer, that is to learn to stop your boat completely. Boat’s don’t have brakes, well, most don’t, there are some odd arrangements on some larger vessels. Instead you can use a few seconds of reverse. From moving forward, put the throttle …. Read More
In the past few months I’ve become increasingly aware of a phenomenon that I believe is going to cost the Canal & River Trust a lot of money. It’s not going to be a problem that’s easily solved. Canal wall erosion occurs whenever a boat moves close to a canal wall. The massive amounts of …. Read More
Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker Just off the Shropshire Union, close by Nantwich but with its own mooring at French Lane just above the Hack Green pair of locks. This place will take you back to the seventies and eighties and the fear of a Soviet pre-emptive nuclear strike.It’s a bit scary here and there, …. Read More
Lock 1 Belan, Montgomery, 46 lockages Lock 1 Graving, Shropshire Union, 66 lockages Lock 1A Carpenters Road Lock, Old River Lea, 78 lockages Lock 7 Glasson Basin, Lancaster, 108 lockages Lock 8 Gardham, Pocklington, 138 lockages From the 2021 Canal & River Trust Annual Lockage Report. Lock 1 Belan Top Lock, Montgomery Canal On the …. Read More
The Canal & River Trust is clearly a failure as a navigation authority.
For a few years now I’ve been recommending to the Canal & River Trust that they implement an education program for new boaters in London. Perhaps reinstating sending the Boaters Handbook and a fresh BWB key to each new licence holder. Given the rapid turnover of boaters on these very overcrowded waterways, even a simple …. Read More
After a few years of carrying different gloves around with me, these are what work best for me.
I’m a one person operation, which means I’m frequently busy, or occupied, even with things unrelated to boat moving. But I’m not the only person out there moving boats, so I offer these folk as alternatives. Other Boat Movers:Please note, I do not recommend or endorse these services – your decisions should be based on …. Read More