Learn how to enjoy Eco-Friendly Narrowboat life cruising the UK canals with #PartTimeBoater founder Marianne Cook.
The Green Boater connects with Marianne Cook, who together with her partner, cruise the vast network of canals in 🇬🇧 aboard their narrowboat.
Despite the popularity of the canals by tourists, liveaboards, working narrowboats and recreational boaters, the canals have a set of eco-friendly practices to help keep the waterways clean and healthy for all to enjoy.
There are now 38,000 narrowboats – one quarter of them are homes – on 3,000 miles of navigable waterways, and the number of people enjoying barge holidays has doubled in recent years. Membership of the Friends of the Canal and River Trust (CRT), the waterways' version of the National Trust, hit 28,000 this year.*
Canals
There are now about 4,700 miles (7,600 km) of navigable canals and rivers throughout the United Kingdom; 2,700 miles (4,345 km) of these are part of the connected system*