September 2023 issue
On the cover of the September issue... Frampton-on-Severn on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
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A Modern Take on Tradition
Boat Review
With its trad stern, boatman’s cabin and exterior styling, Siochánta certainly evokes working boats of yesteryear. Yet, it has electric propulsion. Mark Langley finds out more…
Introduction to Inland Boating
On the Waterways
The WW team share their accounts of first experiencing canal cruising
Marooned on the Thames
Hire-Boating Holiday
In spite of an enjoyable week’s cruising, Peter Hills’ hire holiday on the Upper Thames will likely be remembered for one incident – getting stuck on a sandbank
Convalescence on the Canals
Reader's Boat
After a serious injury left her paralysed, Maisie Wood was drawn to a slower pace of life on the waterways. She tells Amelia Hamson how renovating a narrowboat helped her recovery
The River Severn
Cruising Guide
Historic cathedral cities, tempting riverside towns and very few locks make this perhaps the most relaxing waterway journey you’ll ever make. And there’s the added interest of the 16-mile Gloucester & Sharpness Canal too. Steve Elliott explores
A Boat City
Explore Bristol
Seagoing and inland craft form the primary focus of Bristol’s Floating Harbour. Andrew Denny spends time with its characters and attractions
The First Electric Boating Craze
Looking Back
Inland electric boating is nothing new. Alison Cannon explores the Victorians’ love of voltaic propulsion on the Thames
24 Hours in Market Bosworth
Explore Market Bosworth
For Ashby Canal explorers, Market Bosworth is a must-visit. So says Tony Jones, who recently moored there
Building the Dream
Reader's Boat
Londoners Gabby Heneghan and Calum Henderson went from canal newcomers to running their own boat-fitting company in just three years. Amelia Hamson shares their story
Hiring 75 Years Ago
Looking Back
Karen Wyatt explores a Canal Cruising Co handbook of 1948 and marvels at how much hire-boating has changed
Water, Water, Everywhere...
Product Focus
Tony Jones explores a game-changing new product that could mark the end of many boaters’ water issues
A Year Cruising France
Overseas Boating
In 2020, photographer and film-maker Steve Payne bought a boat to escape Britain. In conversation with James Francis Fox, he recalls a 12-month cruise from the Lower Thames, across the Channel and through the waterways of France
Second-Hand Residential Boats
Second-Hand Boats
Using the BoatSearch service on the WW website, Tony Jones looks at three craft for sale that are well suited to living aboard
Writing the Canals
Last Word
The southern Grand Union and Slough Arm may not be the prettiest canals. But for best-selling author John King they’re an important part of his formative years and a continued influence on his work
