We have not been able to start our spring cruise as we have been waiting for some important documents which finally arrived last Saturday. We had been kicking our heels all the time except for a few days out. One of them was to the Dover Museum to see a very very old boat. We had to do something boaty. The 3500 year old boat was discovered in 1982 when they were building a new road in the centre of Dover. It has been protected all this time in the mud of the River Dove. This museum is excellent and if you are ever in the area its worth a visit. The workmanship in the boat is very impressive especially when you think it was around the time when Stonehenge was being built.
Frederick on test, and the C&O canal
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The January edition of *Canal Boat* is out and includes my boat test on
*Frederick* by Braidbar boats. There’s also a piece I wrote about the
Chesapeake...
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