What we most want is for you to enjoy your Yorkshire canal boating holiday. For this, you need confidence that you can handle the boat and work the locks, so we help you quickly to learn the ropes.
Our
boats are designed to be easy to handle, with straightforward
controls. The locks may seem strange at first, but they work with
beautiful simplicity, and commonsense will get you a long way.
Plus -
by modern standards everything happens V E R Y S L O W L Y so
you have time to work it out!
So don't worry - we'll show you what to do.
Here we are, showing newcomers how to work a lock.
Locks are a very elegant way of moving your boat up or down between different levels of canal. So with your own hands you can raise or lower your boat - weighing up to 16 tons. How's that for effort?