December 2022 issue
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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
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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
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Welcome to the club
Boat Ownership
Boat-club membership has more to offer than just cheap moorings, says Tony Jones
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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