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📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY Rosie & Jim at Lionhearts Cruising club, photo from friend of Towpath Talk, Alison Wilkerson 💙
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
Pop across to our website to see Paul’s latest canal art creations
A stunning cabin stool
A beautiful bread bin
And some pretty coasters
www.nbwakamatandoto.com/shop
#indepenenttraders #floatingtraders #canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #rovingtraders #canalart
Easter done 🐣
Now to prepare for the busy month of May
2/4 May Canal Cavalcade - Little Venice
16/17 May Batchworth Boat Rally
23/25 May Crick Boat Show
#indepenenttraders #floatingtraders #canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #boatlife #canallife #macrame #canalart #cleaning #refillstation
First duckling sighting on the canal. 14 babies!! She’s got her hands full 🐣🐥🐥🐥🦆So lovely to see 🥰
#ducks #ducklings #easter #easterweekend #canal #canalLife #canals
We’ve moved off of our paid mooring a little further down the canal to trade today
This is our new location:
W3W: Fixed.bottom.racks
#RefillStation #indepenenttraders #floatingtraders #canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #grandunioncanal #canalart #macrame #cleaning #ukcanals #london #butty
The "gusts of wind" in the weather forecast were so loud, they woke me up. Roaring.
Also, waves slapping the hull and dishes clinking as the boat moves.
I fear for my chimney and its rain hat. (I know what it's actually called, but since I assume that term has a racist derivation, so rain hat […]
A brass toilet lock with a dial that says VACANT. It's mounted on an oak door that has an angled edge. This angled door, when it swings open, will clear the angled cabin wall. (The walls on a narrowboat typically angle inward. This is called the "tumble".)
There's an old-fashioned Vacant/Occupied dial on the boat's toilet door. It's angled. When it swings open, it clears the tumble (inward slant) of the cabin wall.
The shower is in a walk-through room. Its wood doors don't lock. In an emergency, I want […]
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At the stern hatch of a boat, a hand and thumb push a brass sliding bolt into its slot chiselled into an oak block. The block is attached to the overhead hatch. Most of the boat interior is oak wood, and the metal parts are brass. Along the upper-left edge of the hatch there's a door sweep, mounted upside down to keep out spiders.
For the stern hatch, I bought much larger, sturdier, brass sliding bolts.
Oak is hard wood, so it took a chisel and mallet, drill, hacksaw, and screwdriver to mount them. But it wasn't difficult.
Opening the hatch takes only 2 seconds—faster than I […]
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Definitely a work in progress but we’re set up alongside Warwick Avenue
W3W: decks.bounty.luck
For our fist weekend of trading with The Waka Butty
#canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #floatingtraders #indepenenttraders #refillststation #cleaning #canalart #macrame #ukcanals #boatlife
I've been thinking about security. I need some bigger, stronger latches.
I think the culprit must have been interrupted by a passer-by.
Nothing was stolen but I can't think of another reason why I found the current latches broken.
#CanalLife #canal #UK #boating #boat #security #PropertyCrime #CRT
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY Gorgeous garden on board! Thank you Lee & Gwen (and Harvey the dog), for the photo.
What are you growing on board? 💐
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY
The visitors centre at Caen Hill locks on Saturday, taken by Towpath Talk follower Viv Horne. Love that reflection on the water!
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
A canal lined with trees on both sides. Alongside the canal, some trees are greening, some not yet. My train is crossing a bridge with a low, white railing; it is blurred, due to the train's speed. To the left, a high-speed train entering the frame in a blur. On the right is a green field and some distant trees. The lower half of the photo is filled by train tracks. Some catenary wiring is visible against the sky, which is partly cloudy, partly blue.
In England, canal companies preceded railway companies. Canals were dug along a level route. Later tracks were often laid alongside and overtop of canals.
I managed to get a photo of the Oxford North canal near Hillmorton, just as an oncoming train […]
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I'm scheduling people to join the boat next week. We'll fare well along a stretch of tree-lined canal that has a few locks to operate.
They'll be relaxing days of enjoying the sights, the waterway, and the wildlife (ducks, coots, moor hens, geese, and swans). Oh, and there will be stimulating […]
It is time to prepare the boat for boating. After all, it's not only a home and a (slow) mode of transportation, it's also a boat—a source of entertainment.
#canal #CanalLife #boating #narrowboat #boat #UK
What are you growing on board? We love this upcycling and inventive idea from Towpath Talk follower Steven Brown! 💐
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
Whose coming to the IWA canal cavalcade in Little Venice this year?
#narrowboatlife #canallife #boatlife #iwa #canalcavalcade #london #thingstodo #grandunioncanal #littlevenice #ukcanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - From Paul Wells of tenfiftythree images. Superb!
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
We thought a downside of The Butty would be lock sharing days to meet lovely new people and do our bit to conserve water were over
Yesterday paired up with a 37ft boat which fitted in the locks perfectly with us
#narrowboatlife #boatlife #canallife #grandunioncanal #canallocks #ukcanals
Slowly heading south down the Grand Union with The Waka Butty, currently at Cowroast, aiming for Apsley tomorrow
#ukcanals #independenttraders #canallife #Sustainable #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #rovingtraders #cleaning #RefillStation #BoatLife #canalart #macrame #floatingtraders #macrame
Now the Marsworth flight has reopened we can get our trip underway to Little Venice
Message if you like some of Paul’s canal art, my macrame or refills of Miniml eco/canal friendly cleaning products en route
#boatlife #canallife #grandunioncanal #independenttraders #canaltraders #canalart #macrame
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - from Towpath Talk follower Robert Yelland : CRT work barge moored at Top Lock on the Rufford branch... 🫶
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
After walking up Marsworth flight this morning we weren’t particularly hopeful it would open this weekend but we spoke to the workies and they’re confident it will 🤞🏻
#boatlife #canallife #grandunioncanal #ukcanals #maintenance
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - Liverpool, snapped by Towpath Talk follower Lisa Lacking 🫶
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁 🐕🐾🐈 Thank you to Towpath Talk follower 'Kat on Board' for this lovely photo of Lulu!
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁 🐕🐾🐈 The lovley Albie, courtesy of Lesley Pearson 🫶
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 ‘𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗴𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹
Read the IWA's thoughts at towpathtalk.co.uk
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY from Towpath Talk follower Steve Brown. A bridge a little on the low side! It’s bridge 103 on the Mon & Brec canal... 😳
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
𝗣𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁 🐕🐾🐈 Here's Towpath Talk follower Mandy Muselle's mog! We're not sure of the name of this on-the-cut cat, but he/she is enjoying life.
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals #petsonthecut
Really appropriate area to be moored as it’s currently the Paralympics in Italy 🇮🇹
##ukcanals #canallife #NarrowboatLife #boatlife #grandunioncanal
