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To make using the canals of Britain safe and enjoyable we advice you to follow the guidance that we have for you in this section.

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The majority of boats on the canals of Britain have a tiller at the back which enables you to steer the boat! Steering with a tiller is really quite simple: pushing the tiller to the right will make the boat go left and vice versa.

Your boat turns on a point roughly half way along the boat - like a pivot. This means you need to watch out for the front and the back. If you line up the front only and then try to turn into a narrow gap - a bridge or lock, for example - you risk hitting the side of the obstacle in question with the back of your boat.

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