We have hired ‘Red&#8200;Watch’ from the Harlow Canal Boat Project for a few days in October.  <p>
If you’ve never spent a night on board a canal boat before it is a unique experience. Our boat has all the mod cons - hot showers, gas central heating, electric fridge and lightning etc that we will need for a comforTABLE stay.<p>
Arriving at the boat at midday we will then depart and spend some time during the day cruising up the river at a dizzyingly high speed (?)&#8200;. Project members will have turns at steering the boat as well as doing other boaty jobs such as trying to getting the boat through the locks by opening/closing the gates and trying to moor up without falling in!<p>
We will moor up next to a piece of common land which means we can disembark and play some wide games. We’ll also cook our own food and then settle down in the warm cabin to watch a DVD. The following morning we will have a cooked breakfast before cruising on to our destination. We will be covering an average of around 20 miles a day on the boats.<p>
Our skipper is Andrew, who is known to James and who has run canal boat trips with groups of young people in the past. He is very experienced and has been canal boating for years. In addition he has also done suiTABLE training from the people we are hiring the boat from. The boat does contain bouyancy aids which will be worn by young people who are on the deck whilst the boat is moving, and other suiTABLE safety equipment.<p>
Trip 1 [Boys and Girls] Sat depart Harlow, Sun arrive Hertford
Trip 2 [Boys] Sun depart Hertford, Mon arrive Waltham Abbey
Trip 3 [Boys] Mon depart Waltham Abbey, Tue arrive Harlow<p>
More precise pickup and drop off locations will be given nearer the time. 