#narrowboat

Hail to the Hive! Lately I have been lending a hand at the boat yard when the guys need a bit of assistance. It started a while back when the lady that does the day boat rentals broke her leg and they

Hail to the Hive! I’ve never been one to follow fashion, take the expected route in life and have always somehow gone my own way and found myself in what I think is a perfectly natural situation but to

Hail to the Hive! I have been looking at robust practical storage ideas for the boats that could lend themselves to many applications and one thing kept grabbing my attention, ammo boxes. I am a bit of

Hail to the Hive! Every two to three years your boat will feel an irresistible pull to be taken out of the water to have it's undersides pressure washed, treated and re painted....We call this..... ' THE

Hail to the Hive! Just over 5 years ago, not too far from here, we broke down on our first little narrowboat 'Badger'. Turns out it ended up being one of the best things that could have happened to us

Hail to the Hive! So we are going to be in one place for at least a year, no roaming the network...booooooo! But I have to admit ,it is actually pretty nice around here. And convenient. Working from the

Hail to the Hive! Our lives have altered considerably over the past year. Being a 2 boat floating household has significantly altered how we view life afloat and how we live it on a day to day basis. It

Hail to the Hive! I know I know, I said i would be back posting daily and then I abscond for months on end. I am starting to realise that being busy isn’t an excuse, it’s a lack of discipline. But something

Hail to the Hive! We have been trapped in a specific area for a while due to lock closures and very low water levels in the canal, due to lack of rain and poor maintenance of the locks. It’s made a few

Hail to the Hive! Well when I say crossroads it’s a junction really. A meeting of canals where the Birmingham and Fazeley canal meets the Coventry Canal at FAzeley Junction We are very familiar with this

Hail to the Hive! My wife, best mate and now fellow Captain @millycf1976 has recently stepped up and took control of the tiller on the narrowboat and learned to drive our floating home. My absence from

Hail to the Hive! Well we did it. It’s actually happening as we have signed contracts, paid for and now picked up a second boat as a big project to do up, rennovate and hopefully move onto in the 9 hopefully

Hail to the Hive! We were recently moving the boat to a new location as we only have 2 weeks in any one spot and we like to be in beautiful spots close to facilities. This little stretch between Kilby

Hail to the Hive! We have been living on Canal narrowboats now for 4 years and have coped fairly well with living on boats that many would consider too small for full time living aboard but lately we have

Hail to the Hive! Todays selection were all taken along the same 100m of canal on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal, a mere 8 miles from the city centre. It’s a location we have stayed at many

Hail to the Hive! There’s something. Special about spring. I guess thats why there are so many religious and cultural connotations to it. Nature is awakening and the days are getting longer. The sun is

Hail to the Hive! Spring has sprung, as they say, and with it are these occasional glorious days, a tease, a sneak peak, a promise of what summer may yet give us in the near future. Or so I hope as last

Hail to the Hive! The Canal is often referred to as “The Cut” as it was literally cut into the landscape by hand , well many thousands of hands actually carrying shovels and picks. If you have watched

Hail to the Hive! I find it incredible how a place you may have visited dozens of times befdore can be transformed so wildly by the weather on any given day. Tae the Watford flight of locks for instance.

Hail to the Hive! Yessss, we are back off grid. Dailyu cruising through good weather and bad. Different mooring every night, fresh views and freedom. We do appreciate being able to use our little base