September 2021 issue
On the cover of the September 2021 issue… Cruising the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire.
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Testing Patience
New Boat Review
Patience is a bespoke, go-anywhere narrowboat commissioned by a couple wanting to regularly accommodate guests aboard. Mark Langley finds out more…
Carry on Camping
Camping Boats
Sarah Henshaw meets the couple dedicated to keeping camping boat holidays alive on our canals
Brought up on a Boat
Looking Back
Nigel Lincoln recalls his bohemian upbringing on a former working narrowboat in the 1950s
Guide to the Central Grand Union Canal
WW Guide
So much more than an A-to-B waterway, the central Grand Union offers its own brand of characterful cruising. James Francis Fox boats from Napton Junction to Milton Keynes
Crick products
Products
The latest products and ideas on show at Crick
Oxford to Llangollen
Long-Distance Cruising
This summer Howard Davies completed the first leg of a 650-mile round trip from Oxford, by reaching Llangollen. He recalls highlights of his roaming route
Arteries of Commerce
Looking Back
In the early 1930s, the newly established Grand Union Canal Company published a detailed commercial guide to promote its modernised waterway. Roger Butler takes a look…
End-of-Garden Boat Build
Sailaway Project
Yardarm is a 45ft sailaway fitted out by owner Steve Hastings at the end of his garden on the Macclesfield Canal. Bobby Cowling pays a visit…
Directory Enquiries
Interview
John Pomfret, the man behind the definitive mileage of our inland waterways, tells WW how a lifetime of intrepid cruising part-inspired his research
From Backpacks to Boats
Liveaboard Life
Adam Lind and his fiancée Lauren Coley discovered freedom and community spirit on the UK’s canals after six years of international travel
A River Reawakens
Oxford Thames
Author Andy Griffee revisits the Thames setting of his latest novel to see how the boating fraternity there is recovering from a difficult pandemic year
A Step Backwards
Last Word
Serial fundraiser Stuart Kettell explains why his headline-grabbing, 100-mile Grand Union walk – backwards! – in July might be his most successful challenge to date
