Personal websites

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Aardvarks & Maffi's Boat- Maffi's views and tales.

A boater's wedding- A web site celebrating the wedding of Joe and Jackie Jones when they were married on the canal.

Angie Howard's website- Various pictures of canals and worth a look!

Allan and Debbie's home page - The Travels of the Jones Family, and Narrow Boat "Keeping Up"

Anonymoss- Alan Moss has details of the town of Stone, his boat and cruises.

British Inland Waterways- A website by by Gerry Cork with lots of the UK waterways.

Canal Walks - About various canal walks

Canals@rigdenage - A site with descriptions of the designers adventures with pictures of some of the places they have been and the people they have met.

Cat's Whiskers Narrowboat- A tale of the construction of their narrowboat.

Cath and Nigel Bromley- Their pages that include a Canals section with trip logs which include interesting notes and pictures.

Chris & Dot's canal trip- Assorted tales from their summer (2003) afloat on the English canals

Chris, Kate & James Brown's Website- Including pictures anf informations about canals and their boat which has been recently extended.

Cutworks- All about a narrowboat at Measham Boats being stretched from 51' to 70' - a very interesting website with lots of nice pictures for all to see!

David Kitching's pages- History of the Ashton, Macclesfield and Peak Forest Canals

Diarama- The Website, which is by Cyril J Wood, is an informative site dedicated to Wirral's Local History, Photography, Audio/Visual, Cine & Video, Multi-Media and the Canals & Inland Waterways of Great Britain

Double Dutch- Tales of a dutch couple who have their own narrowboat.

Extreme Boating- Bristol to Bath in flood - 26-29 May 2000

Floating down the river- Ian and Dot Hart's pages on Thames boating

Glas y Dorlan- Glas y Dorlan which is Welsh for Kingfisher is the boat of Ian and Josephine Jeremiah

Granny Buttons - A great website dedicated to the inland waterways by Andrew Denny. If you want to see what a boaters life is like, with canal news, gossip, links, articles and so much more visit Granny Buttons now.

Gypsy Rover- A middle aged couple from Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand who have built a narrowboat to live and cruise on the canals throughout the UK during their retirement. Gypsy Rover was launched in Mirfield, Yorkshire on Friday 5th March 2004.

Hazel's Photos- Some nice photos including some interesting ones of the Falkirk Wheel.

I'd Rather be Narrow Boating- Life aboard a narrowboat called Skylark which was bought in 2001.

Ian and Josephine Jeremiah's Website- The personal website of the waterways writer, who has written books such as 'Along the Avon from Stratford to Tewkesbury', and her husband. The website also includes interesting pages on the Glamorganshire Canal.

Canal navigation photography- Life aboard a newly owned Narrow Boat.

Inland Waterways photographs- A great online gallery displaying John Law's canal photographs.

IWA 1996 rally- Trip on the Canals by narrowboat to the IWA's National Rally at Windmill End in 1996.

James's Canal Pages- A good site about the Scottish Lowland canals (the website has not been updated recently)

Jannock homepage- A family of canal enthusiasts who have owned their own boat for over 4 years. They try and relate theirexperiences, sharing any information that they gather, through the pages of their site.

Jemima II- Alan and Moira's accounts of their voyages.

Jill and Rob Pendleton's voyage- A 5 month voyage on NB Naiad.

John Bennett's Canal pages- A selection of waterway pictures.

John Widdall canal photographs- Restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in Saddleworth — the story in pictures.

Kevin and Ann Warrington's website - A little bit about narrowboats.

Khayamanzi - Khayamanzi is my 55 foot narrowboat, built by Liverpool Boats/The New Boat Company and launched in June 2003.

Living the Dream - Follow the Travels of Rob and Marlane aboard their Boat Oo-La-La

Michael Clarke's home page - Full details, photographs, history, construction, fit out etc. of narrow boat Sika, based on a 62' Northwich Trader Class shell from R. W. Davis, plus more about traditional narrowboat diesel engines.

Mike Clarke's Home Page - A canal historian and restoration engineer with articles on his field.

Mike Stevens' UK Inland Waterways pages - About the canals and navigable rivers of the UK, with a special focus on London.

Moore 2 Life -The blog of Chas and Ann

Myk Askin's Pictures -Photos, cruising logs and also a webcam.

N.B. Apple Queen - The story of Apple Queen, a gas free narrowboat built to a contemporary design by Reading Marine, from design, through construction, decoration to the owners enjoyment of an exceptional boat.

N.B. Elektra - A gas free boat, powered by a 30bhp Beta Marine PropGen diesel engine.

N.B. Emily Anne - EmilyAnne is a distinctive coal fired steam narrowboat with a dutch barge shape, large funnel, and her steam engine!

N.B. Epiphany - A narrowboat to holiday on and then to retire on to.

N.B. Fulbourne - History, restoration and cruising.

N.B. Gamebrid - Gamebird is a 26-foot Sea Otter narrow boat built in 1998.

N.B. Havana - Simon Marshall's personal website.

N.B. Isabella -The fit out of a 35 foot boat with some information about the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.

N.B. Liberty Belle - The story of the building and travels of the narrowboat.

N.B. Lord Toulouse - The building of narrowboat Lord Toulouse and what has happened to her since.

N.B. Polly Anna - The history of the boat and a log book of her cruises.

N.B. Ramyshome - Roger and Maureen Yorke's website about their two year journey around the canals of England & Wales.

N.B. Rodbaston - Trip reports, photos and links.

N.B. Rufford's - This boat was built in the Autumn of 2004 and was actually launched on 14th January 2005.

N.B. Sojourne - Sojourn, is a part-owned by Andrew and Pippa Cooley.

N.B. Somerton - Launched in August 2001, Somerton is 58 ft long and is of a "semi-traditional" design.

N.B. Swallow - Photographs of this part-owned boat.

NB Whisper - Information on the design of Whisper with photos of Whisper and waterside events.

Penelope's World of Water - Features the Cotswold Canals.

Pete’s Montgomery Canal web-site - News, Information and Photo-site for the Montgomery Canal.

Retirement with No Problem - The log of the narrowboat 'No Problem' the home of a retired couple.

Snecklifter : A Journey - A couple sell their house to buy a narrowboat. Planning a four-year continuous cruise of Britain's inland waterways system

Steev's Canal Pages - An introduction to canal boating.

Tafelberg - A UK Narrow Boating Site....written by a live aboard boater for boaters (and updated regularly)

N.B. Tambourine - Web pages are about the designing and construction of 'Tambourine', a 50-foot narrowboat built for us by Associated Cruisers in 1998.

Tam Lin - A narrowboat based at Middlewich.

The Antidote- Photos of Alastair Wiles's narrowboat together with layout drawings and other information about the boat.

The Build of 'Taranaki'- The web page dedicated to the build of 'Taranaki' a 60ft narrowboat.

The Building & Journeys of NB Harnser- The site includes the building of the boat and where they have been on her since she was launched.

The Official Bill Davies Web Site - Includes sections about buying a second-hand narrowboat and then taking her to Europe, living aboard abroad, there is also information on the canals in wartime.

Tony Clayton's Home Page - Journeys on the BCN and links to the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals and other canal pages.

Travelling the Inland Waterways - Good accounts, with photographs, of the trips of the narrowboat Bluebell.

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