July 2022 issue
On the cover of the July issue... a trip-boat crossing the mighty Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal.
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A Show-stopping Symphony?
Boat Review
Established just last year, Symphony Boats specialises in ‘off-the-peg’ narrowboats. Mark Langley reviews its latest – a 60-footer exhibiting at Crick
Back to the Big Smoke
Explore the Grand Union Canal
Aiming to reach the Canalway Cavalcade at Little Venice, Andrew Denny cruises into London for the first time in ten years and marvels at the changes
Music on the Move
On the Waterways
Tony Jones finds out how a pair of working boats belonging to musician Stuart Miller are taking centre stage on the Oxford Canal
Guide to the Llangollen Canal
WW Guide to the Llangollen Canal
Britain’s most popular canal – and with good reason. But there’s more to the Llangollen than just that aqueduct, as James Francis Fox discovers…
WW at 50 - the early years
Looking Back
On its 50th anniversary, we look back at the formation of the magazine and its coverage of the waterways throughout the 1970s
24 hours in Braunston
Explore Braunston
For many people, Braunston is probably just a nondescript Northamptonshire village. But for boaters, it’s the centre of the universe. Tony Jones guides us around the best bits
A Timber Tradition
Around the Waterways
A. P. Boatbuilding is one of the few boatyards in Britain specialising in the conservation of historic wooden narrowboats. Kathryn Clover visit its Tamworth premises
Art afloat on the Oxford
Art Studio
Tony Jones uncovers the story of a floating art studio and gallery at Enslow Marina
The birth of the Canal & River Trust
CRT's 10th Anniversary
Simon Salem, the trust’s first communications & fundraising director, recalls the story of its creation and the launch in 2012
Two worlds collide
Last Word
What happens when a record-breaking round-the-world yachtswoman swaps the open seas for our slower-paced inland waterways? Dee Caffari explains all
