July 2024 issue
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On the cover of the July issue…Boating past the Clock Warehouse at Shardlow on the Trent & Mersey Canal.
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Built for Solo Cruising
Boat Review
Mac is a 45ft bespoke narrowboat designed with single-handed operation in mind. What’s more, it’s from a fairly new builder. Mark Langley finds more….
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Back to Reality
Waterways TV
Narrow Escapes is Channel 4's latest foray into canal-centric television. Amelia Saxena meets some of its liveaboard stars
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Current Event
Event Report
In early May Rupert Smedley attended Electrika, a brand-new show dedicated to electric boating
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Cruising in the Shadow of War
Looking Back
May marked the 50th anniversary of the death of canal campaigner and author Tom Rolt. In this extract from a new biography, The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature, we relive his 1939 honeymoon cruise
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Rolt's Ireland Adventure
Looking Back
Andy Tidy looks at the author’s 1946 trip on the waterways of the Emerald Isle
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WW Guide to the Leicester Ring
Cruising Guide
Peaceful and rural in parts, lively and urban in others, this blend of canal and river navigations boasts a full array of Midlands cities, towns and attractions. Steve Elliott takes us on a round trip
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Fifty at 50
Boat-Builder Profile
After half a century of boat-building, Dave Harris is about to retire having just completed his 50th narrowboat. Andrew Denny tells his story…
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Polishing Paintwork
Boat-Ownership
Shiny new boats are fabulous to behold but what happens when the gloss starts to fade? Here’s how Tony Jones restored a tired paint job to its former glory
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Catching up with Robbie Cumming
Profile
Robbie Cumming is about to return to our TV screens with a much-extended fifth series of Canal Boat Diaries. He’s also been touring a live show, as he discusses with Bobby Cowling
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All Aboard
Accessible Boating
In the final part of our series on accessible boating, Alison Cannon looks at some of the specially designed trip-boats operating around the network
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Stratford-Upon-Avon
Waterways Hotspot
James Francis Fox explains why the Warwickshire town can be considered the cradle of waterways restoration
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Discovering the Newport Pagnell Canal
Looking Back
Roger Butler tells the story of this lost Buckinghamshire canal and explores its remains
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Affordable 'Fat Narrowboats'
Buying Used
James Francis Fox looks at some of the narrowboat-style wide-beams available to secondhand buyers on a budget
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Mum's the Word
Reader's Boat
Photographer and single parent Hannah Bodsworth describes how renovating a 42ft narrowboat to live on with her son has changed her work/life balance for the better
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What would Tom Rolt think?
Last Word
David Cheetham ponders what the celebrated waterways writer and campaigner would make of the contemporary canal and river scene
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