August 2023 issue
On the cover of the August issue... A scene from this year’s sunny Crick Boat Show, which took place at the end of May.
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Wall-to-wall sunshine for Crick
Crick in Pictures
Remember when the Crick Boat Show was practically synonymous with rain? Well, there was not a single drop of the wet stuff at this year’s event.
Born and brought up on board
Looking Back
A 1975 interview with Benjamin Franks provides fascinating insights into working boats in the horse-drawn and motorised eras
Remote Cruising in Portugal
Hire-Boating Overseas
Portugal’s Alqueva Lake is a large and thoroughly modern inland cruising ground with sandy beaches and untouched villages. Bobby Cowling spent a week on its waters in May
Discussing funding the waterways
Funding the Waterways
The most serious issue facing our waterways – their funding – was the focus of a special seminar at this year’s Crick. Show director Peter Johns and CRT chief exec Richard Parry had a lively discussion with audience members
The Eastern Trent and Mersey Canal
Cruising Guide
This section of the ‘Grand Trunk’ comprises lovely villages, rolling forests and classic canal architecture. James Francis Fox boats from the River Trent to Great Haywood…
Product Review
Crick Products
The latest products and ideas from this year’s show
Boats at Crick
Boat review
The WW team review the craft that caught their eye at this year’s boat show
Keels on the Driffield Navigation
Looking Back
One of England's lesser-known waterways, the Driffield Navigation, runs for 7 miles through East Yorkshire from Driffield town centre to Struncheon Hill Lock at Hempholme, where it once formed a navigable link with the tidal River Hull.
April on the Avon
Explore the River Avon
A spring narrowboat trip between Bristol and Bath was beset with problems. Tina Hallett describes an eventful there-and-back journey
Cornwall's Lost Canal
Explore Bude Canal
Two centuries ago the Bude Canal welcomed its first trains of tub boats. Although now long abandoned, many of its historic features remain, as Roger Butler discovers…
An Ambitious Inaugural Cruise - part 2
Reader's Boat
Janet Gascoigne continues her 200-mile journey from Worcestershire to Wiltshire aboard a newly acquired, second-hand narrowboat
Navigating the System
Last Word
How challenging is accessing healthcare for London’s continuous-cruisers? Liveaboard boater Joseph Cook, alongside PhD student Nura Ali, has done the research
