Local knowledge, written down.
Every river has things the guidebooks don't quite tell you — which key opens what, when the Denver window actually opens, what the gauge is really saying. Our members have spent decades finding out the hard way. Here it is, saved for you.
A guide for visitors to the East
Coming over from the canals? Here's everything we wish someone had told us.
The kit worth carrying, the licences you'll actually need, and reach-by-reach notes for the Nene, the Middle Level, the Great Ouse and the Cam — written by members who've made every mistake so you don't have to.
Read the guideThe Denver Crossing
Twenty tidal minutes between Denver Sluice and Salters Lode — and everything hangs on the tide at King's Lynn.
When the window opens on neaps and springs, why some days there's no crossing at all, and the one phone call that makes the whole thing easy. The lock keepers' own tide guidance, explained.
Read the guideReading the river gauges
The EA's telemetry tells you what the river is doing right now — once you know how to read it.
How to use the Environment Agency's live gauges like a local: which reading matters, why every gauge has its own zero, how to spot a stuck sensor, and how to have rising-water warnings find you first.
Read the guideRather see the river than read about it?
Live levels and a member-set green, amber or red for every reach — the gauges guide, already done for you.