Canal Boat – July 2018

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BOAT TEST: 66FT

BOURNE TRAD STYLE C

Designed around a classic Gardner

engine, with lots of traditional

touches

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THE BEAST HITS THE

CANALS C

The ‘Beast from the East’ may

seem a distant memory, but some

boaters are stiff suffering its

effects, as RCR report

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THEN AND NOW C

The canals of Nottingham

and Sheffield have changed since

a Chesterfield Canal boater

ventured onto them 50 years ago

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CRUISE GUIDE: REGENT’S

AND EAST LONDON C

Exploring the capital’s canal

before venturing onto the newly

opened Olympic Park waterways

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LIVEABOARD

David loves animals, but

confesses to having an irrational

paranoia when it comes to sharing

his boat with one

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RESTORATION:

COTSWOLD CANALS

Lottery funding could see boats

from the system cruise through to

Stroud as early as 2024 - we look

at what’s involved

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WHIXALL WALK

Moor your boat up and

explore a remarkable ancient

landscape just beyond the

Llangollen Canal’s towpath hedge

REGULARS

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E DITORIAL

Congratulations to the

Cotswold Canal Trust whose hard

work has paid off

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NEWS

£10m Cotswold Lottery

grant clears first hurdle; London

Boat Show gets the chop;

Daventry arm doubts; Scottish

Lowland canals in crisis?

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LETTERS

Hitting back at boating

stereotypes; springtime in

Braunston; boat hiring near

Birmingham; is CRT’s rebrand

a waste of money?

JULY 2018

20 TOP BOATS REVIEW – CRICK SHOW SPECIAL

The smart boat that made a hat-trick of Crick winsTriple champ

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nine-mile link from Little Vebut otherwise it could claim if you are among the Aspotlighted the Regent’s Candescribed it as “One of^ Kept Secrets”. This may seemrecent travel programme on tbe a fair comment on the crowds at Camden Lock, London’s Best elevision al and a dubious

East London. Camden opened in 1816, so iThe lock-free section betwnice to the Thames in een Little Venice and t has just celebrated its

200th birthday. The remainder of the canal to the Thames at Limehouse was compleworking heyday, the waterwaimportant link from Londy provided an ted in 1820. In its

main canal system. Coal, timber produce were carried in huge 1970s it’s been the preserve of particularly in recent years residential boaters.on’s docklands to the quantities. Since the leisure craft, and and agricultural

Canal meets the Paddingtotriangular shaped pool, conveto Paddington railway statWe begin our journey at Little Venice which is a ion, where the Regent’s niently situated close

Union. This is a busy boatinof the year, but it becomes early May bank holiday wheCavalcade (see our news pagesn Arm of the Grand very lively during the n it hosts the Canalway g location at most times

developments which flank the nearby Paddington Basin. A waterbus service opeoverlooked by a number of finwhich are in complete contrast to the huge modern e Regency houses ). The pool is

Venice to Camden Lock via the London Zoo.road bridge, beyond which a line of moorings brings you to Maida HThe Regent’s Canal begins beneath an elegant rates from Little

another shorter tunnel at Lisson Grove. Soil excavated in the building of these tunnels is said to ill Tunnel, soon followed by

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8-PAGE PULL-OUTRegent’s Canal and East London waterways

The Regent’s Canal begins beneath an elegant road bridge, beyond

which a line of moorings brings you to Maida Hill Tunnel, soon followed by

another shorter tunnel at Lisson Grove.

the museum tells the story of London’s canals Housed in a Victorian former ice warehouse,

and the boats, people and cargoes that they carried. Climb into a working boat cabin,

find out about the ice discover London’s lost canals, see a display of horse-boating, and

trade which was the reason for the building’s existence.

LONDON CANAL MUSEUM

MUST SEE

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and through the less well-known lengths further east to reach Limehouse, the Olympic Park, and London’s newest waterway ring

YOUR COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE WATERWAYS AROUND THE

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