August 2021 issue
On the August 2021 cover … hybrid narrowboat Falcon on the Great Ouse near Ely, by Mark Langley.
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Solar-powered Cruising
New Boat Review
Falcon is a hybrid boat from Mothership Marine that’s primarily designed to be run by the sun. Mark Langley puts it to the test…
What Yorkshire can teach Lancashire
After cruising the Rochdale Canal’s lonely Lancashire section last year, Andrew Denny recently found a very different scene on the other side of the Pennines…
Crick Boat Show 2021 Preview
Our guide to Britain's premier canal boat event
River Soar & Erewash Canal
WW Cruising Guide
Perfect for summer boating is this delightful river route through quiet Leicestershire countryside. James Francis Fox cruises its length, and also takes in the Erewash Canal
Committed Hire-Boating in ’66
Looking back
In an era when there were still working boats on the cut, John Burman cruised the Four Counties Ring and the Llangollen Canal on a two-week hire holiday. Using notes from his original log, he recalls the experience
The Picnic Papers
Waterways Picnics
Eyeing a bankside buffet this summer? Sarah Henshaw digs out useful dining do’s and don’ts from favourite waterways books
Restoring the First ‘Modern’ Narrowboat - Part 1
Historic-boat Restoration
Charles R.W. Lyne describes his restoration of 1926 leisure narrowboat Malaya – including the fitting of a new electric propulsion system
A Grand Return
Hire Holiday
A recent week-long hire-holiday on the central Grand Union helped reignite Kathryn Price’s passion for boating
Caught by the River
Looking Back
Sarah Henshaw tells how a bargeman’s gruesome discovery in the Thames led to the arrest of one of Victorian England’s worst serial killers.
Power Shift
Electric Boating
Rupert Smedley takes a look at a diesel narrowboat that’s been converted to electric propulsion
A Lock Keeper's Son
Last Word
Frank Smith recalls a childhood spent in a canalside cottage on the Kennet & Avon
