Lucy's Narrowboat Adventure 2023

Narrowboat News - Edition 9

Narrowboat News - Edition 9

We’ve made it to Tarleton on schedule. Tomorrow is our Ribble Link booking, we should setting off around 0745 (2 hours before high tide) to catch the tide correctly. First...

Narrowboat News - Edition 9

We’ve made it to Tarleton on schedule. Tomorrow is our Ribble Link booking, we should setting off around 0745 (2 hours before high tide) to catch the tide correctly. First...

Narrowboat News - Edition 8

Narrowboat News - Edition 8

Whilst we were up the Llangollen we had a small structural failure. In addition to bow and stern lines, narrowboats have a mid-lines, these are attached to an eye in...

Narrowboat News - Edition 8

Whilst we were up the Llangollen we had a small structural failure. In addition to bow and stern lines, narrowboats have a mid-lines, these are attached to an eye in...

Narrowboat News - Edition 7

Narrowboat News - Edition 7

It’s been a busy couple of days since we returned to regular lock country. I was treated a beautiful blue sky, with quite a frost to start out on my...

Narrowboat News - Edition 7

It’s been a busy couple of days since we returned to regular lock country. I was treated a beautiful blue sky, with quite a frost to start out on my...

Narrowboat News - Edition 6

Narrowboat News - Edition 6

Very soggy today. Started with drizzle and then it turned into thunder showers - not too cold. The sluices, drains and spillways that keep the canal at it’s prescribed level...

Narrowboat News - Edition 6

Very soggy today. Started with drizzle and then it turned into thunder showers - not too cold. The sluices, drains and spillways that keep the canal at it’s prescribed level...

Narrowboat News - Edition 5

Narrowboat News - Edition 5

We’ve transited Nuneaton again, there are an impressively large number of allotments there, it seems like miles of them along the canal. Allotments are owned by the local authority (or...

Narrowboat News - Edition 5

We’ve transited Nuneaton again, there are an impressively large number of allotments there, it seems like miles of them along the canal. Allotments are owned by the local authority (or...

Narrowboat News - Edition 4

Narrowboat News - Edition 4

Dear Everyone,Editorial comment from my sister Pip, who knows her UK flora - May blossom is not Blackthorn but Hawthorn which does flower in May, hence ' don't cast a...

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Narrowboat News - Edition 4

Dear Everyone,Editorial comment from my sister Pip, who knows her UK flora - May blossom is not Blackthorn but Hawthorn which does flower in May, hence ' don't cast a...

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