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INFORMATION TO SUPPORT YOUR CANAL CRUISING HOLIDAY
 
Waterways for All Boat Handling  and  Safety General Canal Related Website Links Places and Events
 Along the Canal Network		 Fitting Out  a  Narrowboat
Mooring up for a while allows time for a little fishing. WATERWAYS FOR ALL

Whether boating, fishing, walking or just sitting by the side of the canal watching the world go by, the waterways and canals of the UK are a resource that should be cherished and shared by all with courtesy.
You can call it a canal boat, a narrow boat or a barge, but whatever name you choose it will give you access to hundreds of miles of canals, rivers and waterways.

BOAT HANDLING AND SAFETY

It is important that you undertake you boating holiday in a safe manner, and if you decide to take a canal narrowboat holiday or short break with the Ashby Boat Company you will receive instruction on the operation and handling of the narrowboat. 
There will also be a copy of the,
Boater's Handbook - Basic Boat Handling and Safety, 
provided on all our canal boats.
If you wish to study the Boater's Handbook before taking your canal holiday you can obtain a copy in .pdf format from the downloads section of,
The Association of Inland Navigation AuthoritiesThere is much more information relating to inland waterways on this excellent website, including a comprehensive map of the waterways system, again in .pdf format and able to be downloaded.

Also available are a Boater's Video and/or a Boater's DVD. 
These run for about fourty minutes and are based on the information contained in the Boater's Handbook and the experience of two families taking a boating holiday on the canal/waterways network for the first time.
It contains very helpful visual information on how to "quickly learn how to navigate safely through locks,  bridges and tunnels while enjoying the pleasures of life in the slow lane".
Spending fourty minutes watching this informative film is time well invested. 
Copies of the video or DVD are present on all weekly and short break hire boats. 

 

It may be possible to obtain copies of the video or DVD by contacting :-
British Waterways Marketing and Communications,
Willow Grange,
Church Road,
Watford, WD17 4QA
Tel: 01923 201120 | Fax: 01923 201300 
Email: enquiries@britishwaterways.co.uk

 

 

Considerate well supervised pets travel free on Ashby Boat Company boats, please note the harness this dog is wearing while on board the boat. GENERAL CANAL RELATED WEBSITE LINKS

The Association of Pleasure Craft Operators (APCO)

Jim Shead's Waterways Information

Waterways Interactive

Canals & Rivers

The British Marine Federation

 

PLACES AND EVENTS ALONG THE CANAL NETWORK

Both dayboats were at the 2004 anniversary of the Ashby Canal giving "taster" canal boat trips to many attending the event.Shackerstone Boat Rally, Ashby Canal, 2004
This event was part of the Shackerstone Family Festival 2004, and was to celebrate the 200th. anniversary of the opening of the completed Ashby Canal.
Craning the shell of Measham into the Ashby Canal at Shackerstone.FITTING OUT A NARROWBOAT
There are three examples of fitting out a narrowboat on this website which you may find interesting to browse, to help you understand the narrowboat that you are hiring.
These are the pages, 
Fitting Out the Narrowboat Carlton 
and
Fitting Out the Narrowboat Measham

With the boat Carlton you will find the fitting out presented under individual topics, and with the boat Measham it is presented as a diary of pages as the fitting out progressed.

And currently we are fitting out the boat Hawkesbury, which will be introduced into the fleet in July 2010.
 Fitting out the Narrowboat Hawkesbury
 
Ashby Boat Company Limited,
Canal Wharf,
Stoke Golding,
NUNEATON,
Warwickshire
CV13 6EY		 Tel. 01455 212671

Email - sales@ashbyboats.co.uk
 

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