Welcome...

Welcome to the Young Working Boaters website, we are a new group of historic narrowboat enthusiasts who have decided to join together to create a society to try and promote not only the UK canals but also encourage the younger generation to use historic narrowboats.

Historic Narrowboats Sickle and Cedar

In time we hope to have our own society working boat to take to narrowboat rallies to promote the use of canals. All members are huge working boat enthusiasts who are keen to teach others the use of traditional techniques when navigating the UK inland waterways.

Our aims are to:

  1. Promote the UK canals to target the younger generation
  2. Encourage the use of historic narrowboats
  3. Create a social network of young working boat enthusiasts
  4. Teach members traditional boating techniques