A hotelier has built a canal lock – complete with a narrowboat converted into a swimming ... he says he has to drain the lock before swimming in the barge in case it “sinks”.

One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town but a canal. Early Indians, explorers, and settlers called the ...

Barely looking back, he reversed the boat into the main channel, an act of bravura that said, This is my canal as much as anyone’s. He turned the bow upstream as other barges bore down.

The barges could remove 23,000 lorries from the roads, claims Port Liner, the firm making the boats. While retrofitting canal boats with electric engines and batteries is a time-consuming and ...

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Narrowboat owners in Staffordshire have said budget cuts to the Canal and River Trust will mean higher costs for them which may "price boats off the water". The trust said it was facing a funding ...

The Land of Smiles is dealing with the challenges of pollution, climate change, and the millions of annual tourists. Creative ...