A modern traditional narrowboat negotiating a swing bridge on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
On most narrowboats steering is by a tiller, as it was on all working narrow boats, with the steerer standing at the stern of the boat, aft of where a person emerges from the hatchway and rear doors at the top of the steps up from the cabin. Many of today's modern canal narrowboats have the traditional layout of a small open, unguarded "counter" or deck behind the rear doors from which the crew can step onto land. Also from where the narrowboat can be steered, but not the safest with the propeller churning away just below.
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Location: Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, Gloucestershire, England,
Photo credit: © Adrian Page / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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