What's New?

January 30, 2012

Added to the Hotel Boats and Barges page:

• Sonafho France - cruises on the Burgundy Canal, on La Reine Pedauque or MS Niagara
• The Barge Company - France, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Scotland, Ireland
• Shannon Princess - R. Shannon, Ireland; 10 passengers

January 28, 2012

Added to the appropriate categories on the Boat Ownership, Construction, Maintenance, and Services page:

• Narrowboats Ltd - boat brokerage (Northwich, Cheshire)
• John's Boat Works - repair/restore/build wooden hull boats; custom made traditional wooden joinery and fittings for canal boats, and other steel and grp hulled boats (R. Thames between Kew Gardens and Brentford)
• Crick Wharf moorings - (Crick, Northants., on GU)
• Marine Power Services - "parts supply and restoration of vintage marine diesel engines" (near Poole, Dorset)
• Nabru Boat Sofas

September 28, 2011

Added to the River Cruise Ships (on the Continent) page:

• Grand Circle Travel - numerous countries
• AMA Waterways - USA-based

September 25, 2011

Added to the Webcams page:

• River Avon Webcam - Evesham - [Thanks again to Geoffrey Hammond for pointing out this one.]

Added to the Trip Reports and Blogs page, under "Active Blogs":

• Jameisons Afloat - April 2008 to the present
• Al On The Canal - Life aboard Buggerlugs - July 2008 to the present
• Narrowboat Dreckley's Meanderings - March 2010 to the present
• NB Triskaideka - Sep 2010 to the present; includes boat build
• NB The Puzzler - liveaboard; March 2011 to the present; now cruising in Ireland
• Narrowboat Briar Rose - Apr 2011 to the present
• Narrowboat DELILAH - July 2011 to the present
• Narrowboat Annie - liveaboard; July 2011 to the present
• Narrowboat Tacet - liveaboard; Jan 2011 to the present

Added to the appropriate categories on the Boat Ownership, Construction, Maintenance, and Services page:

• Anthony M - boatbuilding, fit-outs, furniture, timber (Sheffield)
• Barby Moorings - marina moorings; Barby (nr. Hillmorton) on Oxford Canal
• Pat Buckle Narrowboats - boatbuilding (Stibbington, Cambs. PE8 6LP, on R. Nene)
• Standard Narrow Boats Ltd - boat builders (at Nottingham Castle Marina NG7 1TN)
• Portway Marine Stove - Multi fuel boat stove

July 2, 2011

Added to the appropriate categories on the Near the Water ... page:

• Black Horse - restaurant; Devizes (K&A)
• George's Pork & Poultry - lock 15 (i.e. bottom) of Audlem flight on SU; fruits and vegetables too [Note: a different George - not me]

May 22, 2011

Added to the appropriate categories on the Canal & Waterway Internet Resources- General page:

• ADEC Marine Ltd - boat safety equipment
• Bollington Discovery Centre - Bollington, Macclesfield
• Crofton Beam Engines - historic pumping station for K&A Canal in Marlborough; steaming days in season
• Galton Valley Canal Museum - Smethwick, W. Mids., on both the Birmingham New and Old Main Lines
• Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group - historic pumping station for Cromford Canal
• Waterways Images Photo Library
• Phil Pickin - canal-related photography
• Canal Experience - boat handling courses; Herts., on GU
• The Boat Shop - windlasses, plaques, brasses, prints, guides (Braunston, on GU)

May 19, 2011

Added to the appropriate categories on the Boat Ownership, Construction, Maintenance, and Services page:

• The Boat Listing - "Details of over 40,000 individual boats registered on British Waterways and Environment Agency Waters"
• Boroughbridge Marina - moorings, slipway, chandlery, boat brokerage, services (N. Yorks. on R. Ure)
• Evesham Marina - boat brokerage, chandlery, services, moorings, craneage, slipway, Webasto products, Barrus engines (Evesham, on R. Avon)
• realdiesels.co.uk - "Spare Parts for R A Lister and Lister-Petter Diesel Engines"
• Black Country Metalworks Ltd - "Narrowboat Accessories" (portholes, chimneys, signs, tiller pins, etc.; also painted and unpainted canalware)
• Kinver Canopies - (Kinver, S. Staffs.)

May 18, 2011

Added to the Hiring Boats page, under "Smaller Hire Firms - England":

• Valley Cruises now has a second base, located in Stratford-upon-Avon, using the fleet of boats previously operated by Bidford Boats.

Added to the Boat Ownership, Construction, Maintenance, and Services page, under the heading "Diaries of Boat Building/Fit-outs":

• Steam Tunneltug Hasty - building of a steam narrowboat; to be launched spring 2011
• Jenal - the design and (as yet incomplete) building of a Dutch barge, and related litigation
• The Conversion of NB Worcester to Electric Drive - completed July 2010
• Kate and Corwen's Narrowboat Challenge... - rebuilding a narrowboat (2007)
• Luxemotor "KEI" - building of a 22m Dutch barge in Holland; Jan 2004 - July 2005

September 6, 1995 thru April 30, 2011

This "What's New" material has been removed to reduce the size of this page.

September 5, 1995

Everything! In addition to the web pages, there is an email mailing list.