Aquavista extends mooring exchange to 100 nights
Aquavista, the UK’s largest marina group, has extended one of its most popular benefits. The Explore34 scheme, launched a couple of years ago, originally gave…
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Aqua shared ownership
Aqua Narrowboats has gone into the shared-ownership narrowboat market.
The Staffordshire company, which started as a hire fleet by building a single boat in 2004…
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5-in-1 pliers
Laser Tools continues to innovate its manual tool range, with a new set of 5-in-1 pliers (part number 8763). These have five interchangeable heads that can…
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Letter and number punch set
Tool retailer Sealey is offering a set of high carbon steel punches. The set has 36 alphanumeric characters that allow you to hammer letters and…
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Synthetic teak decking
Teak is unparalleled as a decking for boats, but with the teak forests of south east Asia forecast to disappear in ten years, and imports…
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Heavy-duty anti-fouling
Coppercoat epoxy anti-foul isn't brand new – it was introduced over 30 years ago and has been used on over 80,000 boats – but it's…
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BBQ briefcase
If you want a sleek and portable towpath barbecue for your boat, you might consider the new BBQ Briefcase.
As the name suggests, this is…
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Vircru boat security
Boat monitoring is a growing market, and as narrowboats get more sophisticated and more expensive, the security demands get ever more demanding.
The latest entrant…
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Catscape cat ladder
Karen Flockhart, of specialist ropemaker Tradline Fenders, told us a boater at their Braunston Marina base recently came into the shop distressed. His cat had…
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Porthole lace hangers from Hooked Afloat
In the March 2024 issue of Waterways World Dawn Hales described how she started her Hooked Afloat business, creating all sorts of useful crochets and…
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Nitehawk Grappling Anchor Hook
The grappling hook is a familiar device in canal cleanups, where it’s used for fishing out junk like trolleys and bikes that otherwise obstruct navigation.…
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