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It’s 50 years since the 1968 Transport Act officially recognised Britain’s canals as a leisure resource and canal boat holidays have become increasingly popular ever since. To celebrate, we (my husband, 10-year son and three-year-old Fox Terrier) booked a weekend away aboard Kate Boats’ brand new luxury narrowboat ‘Harry Hudson’, setting off from their canal…

“We have rented from Kate boats several times now and each time have had excellent service and a fully equipped and very comfortable boat. It is a great family holiday, the first time I took my 19 year old daughter she thought she would get bored but there’s always something to be doing, seeing, or…

We’d just spent an hour with John from the boatyard learning how to handle our hired narrowboat and, crucially, the locks. When he asked “Do you feel ready to go off on your own?” we confidently dismissed him. However, when he added: “Where are you going?” and I replied cheerfully “Banbury”, he smiled a wry…

4th May- 18th May Not so much a log as an end of journey report. Yesterday morning, as we worked our way back to the yard was to prove one of the coldest May days for years. It also rained heavily, apart from that we only needed to don wet weather gear for 3 hours…