Condor – V and A Waterfront, Cape Town Yesterday I was back on the internet looking at some of my favourite boats. Shock and horror – Most of them have now been sold! I console myself with the notion that I am not quite ready to buy our dream craft yet...
Sailing in Table Bay – Cape Town The South Easter is blowing a gale here today, about 35 knots, and the forecast is much the the same for the next couple of days. Most of my friends know I would like to buy a boat in Europe, and often ask why I dont just get a...
Anderton Boat Lift Cruising the waterways is not only wonderfuly relaxing, but can be fascinating. On the Trent and Mersey canal, we found the Anderton Boat Lift. One of the ‘Seven Wonders of the Waterways’ it is one of the only 2 working boat lifts in the...
Marple – Lock 15 As I mentioned in the previous post, the Cheshire Ring has a lot of locks – 92 to be precise. And they come in batches. We collected our narrowboat near Congleton close to the SW end of Macclesfield, and headed off in an anticlockwise...
Crossing the Marple Aquaduct As promised – more delights of the Cheshire Ring. This circular waterway route is possibly one of the most scenic, covering a distance of 97 miles, through 92 locks, 5 tunnels and over many aquaducts. The first picture shows us...
Approaching Snake Bridge on Macclesfield Canal Despite the fact that bridges can set height restrictions for one’s boat, they are a beautiful and interesting facet of the waterways. In 2007 we did a 14 day trip around the Cheshire Ring, on a hired traditional...
My love of boats goes back to my early years when I went on holiday with my parents to Knysna in the Cape.
We stayed at a hotel on stilts, and I played in rowing boats and little motor boats on the lagoon.