Life on the water...

A man, no particular plan, lots of canals - Granny Buttons!

Rock UK Frontier Centre Adventures at Irthlingborough
10 Mar 2010 at 9:40pm
On the Nene last July at Irthlingborough we were about to lock down when I noticed a bunch of kids getting a canoeing lesson. There's nothing like an instructor putting his feet where his mouth is! Turns out they were...

A decade of narrowboatworld.com
8 Mar 2010 at 1:55pm
Narrowboat World says today that it's the tenth anniversary of the day it first registered the domain: Ten years ago today, the 8th March 2000, a new Web address was registered that has had quite an effect on the waterways...

My new blog profile picture
8 Mar 2010 at 12:00pm
I've changed my profile picture. Peter Allen pointed out that if I was going to talk about being 'open' with my email address, a picture of me (rather than Little Miss Chocolate Buttons) might be a better choice. Well, I...

Basingstoke Canal houseboat wreck
7 Mar 2010 at 7:55pm
In my earlier posts about the BCN narrowboats which became Basingstoke Canal houseboats, Ray Oakhill mentions one old boat which had sunk when on its way out of the canal and rumoured to headed to London. Now Ray has kindly...

Hand painting all types of boats and specialising in the restoration/replication of historical working narrowboats, the company is based at Brinklow Boat Services building and fitting yard which is an established boatyard well known for it's quality in this particular area of the industry.

Full shotblasting services available for hull and top sides at our heated facility in Leicestershire. Two component Epoxy Pitch is apllied after blasting. Bitumen blacking services also at Brinklow dry dock which envolves preparaton of the hull using hand tools and then applying single component tar based paints.

Acomplised signwriting and traditional geometric designs can be applied here at Brinklow, aswell as beautiful illustrations painted straight on to your boat.