Getting onto the water couldn’t be simpler: you just hire a boat. But what sort of boat? How do you handle and maintain it and how do you manoeuvre it through locks, tunnels and swing bridges? If you get really keen, how should you go about buying your own boat? “Canal and river cruising” answers all these questions and more. Written by an expert and produced on collaboration with The Inland Waterways Association, it is a concise authoritative guide to the practical aspects of cruising canals and navigable rivers. It gives you all the information you need to ensure that you and your crew have a great time, wherever you go on the waterway network.