March 2022 issue
On the cover of the March 2022 issue... Review narrowboat Provincetown on the Leicester Line of the GU, by Mark Langley.
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Scotland's inland boating challenge
News Focus
The Millennium Link Challenge was devised last year to encourage boaters to explore the Lowland Canals. Ffion Llwyd-Jones speaks to winner Morag Brown
New Boat Review: A luxury retreat
Boat Review
Provincetown is a bespoke narrowboat built for holidaying afloat. Mark Langley puts it to the test on the GU Leicester Line
Explore Little Liverpool
Explore
Shardlow is Britain’s most complete surviving example of a canal village and has recently been designated o fficial Heritage Port status. We explores its rich history
Continuous Cruising with the family
Liveaboard Life
Serving as a home, business base, home-education hub and means of exploring the network, narrowboat Bluebell fulfills many functions for the MacKenzie family. Rich MacKenzie relates how an impulse decision to live afloat has brought untold freedoms
Guide to the Caldon Canal
WW Guide
Sta ffordshire’s best-kept secret, this delightful waterway o ffers welcome respite from the bustle of the Trent & Mersey. James Francis Fox explores its quiet charms
The Last of the Summer Wine
Touring the Waterways
Trevor Cherrett tours the waterways o f southern England in a wooden motor launch manned by a vintage crew
The Texan Boat
Reader's Boat
More than 4,000 miles away in Texas during the pandemic, British expats Caroline and Pete Clarke set their sights on canal life in the UK. The couple tell Amelia Hamson how they oversaw a bespoke build and became liveaboard boaters in less than a year
The Andover Canal
Looking Back
Andrew Denny explores a little-remembered waterway that had ambitions to link Southampton to the national network
Mission Accomplished
Explore the Waterways
Having completed a ten-year tour of the connected network last autumn, intrepid boater Jon Reynolds recalls the highlights of his 6,723-mile journey
Sick and tired
Liveaboard Life
Liveaboard boater Tony Jones finds out why getting to see a GP is so di fficult when you’re a boater, and offers advice on what you can do about it
Time & Tide
Explore River Trent
Tony Jones looks back on a Trent cruise that almost cost him his boat
Remote working on a remote canal
Last Word
The pandemic gave Hannah Sterritt the opportunity to work and permanently reside aboard her narrowboat on the Mon & Brec. She describes the many benefits of a floating o ffice
