Harry Stoker

Thanks everyone. This is all great info!

Will do... I have been looking at canal dimensions for the last 3 days. Lots to get my head around but found some good routes and long stretches of that would suit my boat. ?

Thanks Lampini

Thanks Bengo I will contact those people. And thanks Frangar for your friendly advice even though not the question I was asking. The boat has been cruising the canal system up north for the last five years with no problems, just a few limitations. The draft is less than a narrow boat if I am not mistaken.

I am planning to take my new river cruiser from "up north" to "down south" but as it's beam is 11ft I cannot take canals the entire way. I plan to lift her out around Leicester or Northampton way and have her taken down to the wider part of the Grand Union or even the Kennett. My question is... has anyone here down anything similar and if so where did they get lifted in and out? It doesn't have to be these precise locations but it does have to be from one side of the narrow canals to the other. Also she is quite tall at 7'9" or so. H :)