Leading the news this month: Richard Parry, Chief Executive of the CRT, is to stand down. This month’s Boat Test features Flow Down by Aintree Boats. Next we have three articles to help you choose your holiday cruise for this year. The first gives us some excellent ideas for a 2025 holiday cruise, followed by a report of holidays on some of Cheshire’s quieter canals and rivers, and then a Cruise Guide to an ever-popular holiday route, the Stratford-upon- Avon Canal. And then, we’ve got a fabulous FREE competition with a week’s holiday to be won. Our ongoing boat restoration this month is all about constructing a bed. We then have a feature on the Royal Military Canal, then one on a fabulous Christmas needle artwork and the other asking the question: Eddie Stobart and Samuel Barlow Coal Carriers – was there a canal connection?

Leading the news this month: Richard Parry, Chief Executive of the CRT, is to stand down. This month’s Boat Test features Flow Down by Aintree Boats. Next we have three articles to help you choose your holiday cruise for this year. The first gives us some excellent ideas for a 2025 holiday cruise, followed by a report of holidays on some of ....