How to Captain Your Canal Barge Rental Steering a barge, whose effective speed tops out at 6mph, challenges patience and alertness. Not driving skills.

A well-known commercial operator has sold his three barges – marking the beginning of the end of a family firm that has ...

Advocates for restoring the Ocklawaha River are undeterred by a recent veto setback and are moving ahead and regrouping to ...

DeSantis slashed $500,000 to study the potential environmental and economic effects of removing the dam last year.

The whole concept of barge cruising centers on slow travel and simplicity—and that’s what L’Art de Vivre delivered in spades.

The barge floated along the canal at a leisurely four miles per hour with stops at locks every few kilometers, meaning I could hop off the boat at any time and walk alongside the towpath or take ...

The captain and his sons would walk along the path with the mules and help open the locks, because you needed three people to get through a lock, VanDreason said. Women did laundry on top and bartered ...

After nearly a century of local ownership, New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company will be acquired later this year by a ...

The Canal Barge acquisition will be structured through a newly formed holding company controlled by Redwood that will also ...