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We were very lucky to get to the opening night of James Martins Leeds Kitchen in Clarence Dock Leeds.  A great addition to Clarence dock and a good night. Certainly will point our guests in his direction.

We have new storage box for the roof courtesy of Heritage Sheds in Nelson. We will post a photo shortly but we are really pleased with it. They listened to what we wanted and did it at a good price, and on top of that they are such lovely people, a pleasure to buy something from. Be so good to store some more stuff away from inside the boat.

A centre page spread in the Craven Herald. Some great pictures. We hope to be able to get some of them to put them on the web site.

Hot on the heals of all the other coverage we have appeared twice on television recently, BBC Look North

onboard today and hopefully got the TV coming aboard tomorrow, all go!

In the Yorkshire Evening Post Today. Nice article and pleased with the pictures

Much activity at the Outdoor show. Lots of great people and the boat show is there too and that is amazing. Ben Fogle selling a great range of socks and walking shoes opposite us.

We had an interesting evening meal cruise with the Daily Mail on board, looking forward to the article coming out.

“It’s about time”, lots of people keep saying when I tell them. Gina and I are engaged and are planning to get married at the end of next years season, trying to keep Gina concentrated on planning for next season, not just the wedding!

We are pleased to announce our 2011 routes. We have some interesting additions this year with river trips up to York as well as this years favourites through the dales and the amazing Bingley 5 rise of locks and Foulridge tunnel.

We had a brilliant visit from the Yorkshire post and are very pleased with the lovely article they did on us, 4 page spread that was a surprise.

We will soon be posting our 2011 schedule, book early to get the route you would like and to get an earlybird incentive!!

Due to severe water shortages the western section of the canal, from Wigan to Gargrave is to be closed from the 2nd of August.

This is a huge dissapointment to us but we still have the wonderful eastern end of the canal to operate on. That is Skipton, Saltaire, The Bingley 5 and 3 and Leeds itself. A quick re-jig of our routes and we will press on. An interesting first season.

What would life be without a few challenges thrown in.

No change to the great boat and Gina’s superb food, and the drink will not dry up!

Nick & Gina

Lady Teal has now run a number of cruises and we are pleased to say that all our guests have been very positive about the experience. It is always a worry starting something new so to have such positive feedback has been great for us.

We are really looking forward to our summer on the L&L it is such a great canal

Nick & Gina

June 5th at around 8 in the morning Lady Teal took to the water for the first time at Reedley Marina Pendle.

It was lovely to see her settle down into her natural environment.

To see the launch on YouTube go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTBIv5L9G3o

July 2– We have now undertaken some trial cruises and she goes through all the bridges and the Foulridge tunnel, never doubted she would!

All the trial guests seem to think she is great and that Gina’s cooking is outstanding!