“I was brought up in Kings Langley, two minutes walk from the canal. I played and fished there and had a general interest in boats,” she said.
In 2010 Katie enjoyed a canal boating holiday so much that the following year she and her partner bought a 57ft Liverpool Trad (“bright purple with hot-wheels flames on the bows”).
This was used to cruise the Oxford and Thames Ring from a permanent mooring on the Grand Union.
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