Aerbabe,
Cheers. I have checked out the BCU page. It seems every UK canoe page on the net spends most of it's bandwidth talking about the lack of a general right to navigate on English Rivers. Negotiating deals with each and every landowner seems to be not a whole lot of fun.
I'm trying to get my Brother interested as well so that we can go halves on a canoe. He's richer than me as he chose a more lucrative discipline of Engineering than me!
Cheers
DeepC