Avon Calling

Hello friends, this is Eddie reporting back in from my latest adventure. What a time my fellow crew members and I have had. We've been canal boating in the Midlands and chugged our vessel round an extended version of the Avon ring. We had rather more adventure that we bargained for when we got marooned on an island, and I can hardly wait to tell you all about it, and the new friends we met as a result. However, I'm going to have to keep you in suspense for a while as I need to start my tale at the beginning.

I took command of my vessel, a 62 foot narrowboat, named Muscovy, on a sunny afternoon a week and a half ago.


Do you not agree that she's a fine craft? I was very proud to be her Master for the duration of our trip. I was also pleased that she had a respectable boat name, after all, a Muscovy is very much a water bird. This was rather unusual for a Black Prince hire boat. We hire from Black Prince as the boats are smart, modern and well maintained. The only problem is that most of the fleet names are silly girls names, which don't suit a narrow boat at all. Previously we've hired Celia and this year we also saw a Josie and, horror, a Mabel. Narrowboats really should not be called Mabel.

Enough said! One of my first tasks was to settle my crew aboard and to hoist the bear flag.


Hopefully anyone who reads our blog regularly will know the names of all my crew, but don't worry I won't test you.

Once we had cast off and were well and truly underway I couldn't help but put on my happy boating face. I know you saw it last year when I went chugging, but here is this year's version.


If you want to be as happy as I am in my picture, I thoroughly recommend a canal boating holiday.

Lots of love, Eddie and the crew of Muscovy xxx