In February 2014:

Review of innovative 9ft wide-beam from Narrowboats Ltd

Guide to gas safety afloat

Installing a range of self-designed features in a bespoke narrowboat

Waterway Profile: The Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal - a new series of profiles begins with this lovely South Wales canal

A multi-national band of volunteers get busy cleaning up on the Grand Union Canal

Oxford to Cambridge - conclusion of the cruise between the nation's premier university cities

History: cruising with Heron to Llangollen and the Avon in the late 1940s

Plus: recalling days gone by at Stoke-on-Trent, essential advice for would-be purchasers, unexpected difficulties on the Lancaster Canal, and four pages of debate and opinion