December 2022 issue
On the cover of the December issue... A wide-beam boat leaving Boulters Lock on the lower River Thames.
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Apartment Living
Boat Review
The Richmond wide-beam is part of new range of boats from New & Used designed specifically for residential moorers. At East London’s Poplar Marina, Mark Langley hopped aboard the first example
A Challenging Honeymoon
Hire-boating Scotland's canals
After a long hiatus, newly married Polly and Hope Talbot Waller continue their quest for an IWA Silver Propeller award – on a hire-boat honeymoon trip on Scotland’s Lowland Canals
Welcome to the club
Boat Ownership
Boat-club membership has more to offer than just cheap moorings, says Tony Jones
Lower Thames
WW Guide
Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle make the Thames a truly Royal River. James Francis Fox follows it from Marlow to London…
Canoeing in long skirts
Looking Back
As a woman keen to explore the waterways by canoe, Hester Butson was ahead of her time in Victorian England. Alison Cannon retraces her 1889 journey along the Kennet & Avon
Radio Waves
Reader's Story
With his end-of-garden narrowboat hemmed in by stoppages, Steve Jenner discovered a different boating experience in September – broadcasting live on an original Radio Caroline vessel
Committed cruising in France
Cruising in France
As part of a two-man crew, Rosy Frost boated 73 miles and 54 locks of the Canal du Midi in a week-long holiday in August – and it was her first time afloat
Re-establishing Stafford's Canal Link
Waterways Restoration
Andy Tidy explores the history of a lost branch of the Staffs & Worcs and efforts to reinstate it
Running dry
Around the waterways
Tony Jones finds out why so many parts of the network were closed or restricted this season, and asks what CRT is doing about it
Cruising to Sheffield
Explore South Yorkshire
On a whim, David Irving boated the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation, to moor at Victoria Quays in the heart of the city of steel
The flow beneath your feet
Last Word
Former BW telecommunications manager Robert Hall reveals the story of the network of fibre optic cables running below our towpaths
