Canal Nav is an MCP server with 6 tools an agent can call, among them find_place, get_closures, plan_round_trip. It answers at https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 4 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
Plan canal routes on Great Britain's waterways: lock-aware timing, live closures, boat-fit checks.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
find_place | Look up a place name on the British inland waterway network and return matching locations with coordinates (marinas, moorings, water points and other waterside facilities). Use it to disambiguate a place before calling plan_route or plan_ro Inputs: name |
get_closures | Live closure, stoppage and restriction notices for the inland waterways of Great Britain, covering every GB navigation authority: Canal & River Trust, Environment Agency, Scottish Canals, Broads Authority, Bridgewater, Middle Level, River W Inputs: place, waterway, radius_km |
plan_round_trip | Plan return-to-start cruises from a point on the inland waterways of Great Britain, sized to fit a number of days. Returns several options: circular loops where the canal network offers one (canal "rings"), plus out-and-back and fewest-lock Inputs: start, days, boat_length, boat_beam, boat_draught, boat_air_draught |
plan_route | Plan a boat journey between two points on the inland waterways of Great Britain (canals and navigable rivers). The route follows the water itself, not roads. It counts every lock and estimates cruising time from realistic boat speed plus ti Inputs: from, to, boat_length, boat_beam, boat_draught, boat_air_draught |
search_directory | Search Canal Nav's directory of waterside businesses on the British inland waterways: marinas, chandleries, boat hire, boatyards, pump-out and services, fuel, moorings, surveyors, brokerage, and canalside food and pubs. Filter by free text, Inputs: query, category, near |
will_my_boat_fit | Check boat dimensions against the published maximum craft dimensions for a named British waterway (length, beam, draught and air draught, from Canal & River Trust published figures covering the full CRT network). Returns a per-dimension ver Inputs: waterway, boat_length, boat_beam, boat_draught, boat_air_draught |
Every block below points at https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http canal-nav https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"url": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"canal-nav": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"canal-nav": {
"url": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"serverUrl": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"url": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}name: Canal Nav
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Canal Nav
type: streamable-http
url: https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"httpUrl": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"canal-nav": {
"url": "https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcp.canalnav.com%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=canal-nav&name=Canal%20Nav
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 185 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by canalnav.com and served from mcp.canalnav.com, the vendor's own domain: https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp.
6, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 10 September 2026: find_place, get_closures, plan_round_trip, plan_route, search_directory, will_my_boat_fit.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 185 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://mcp.canalnav.com/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: com.canalnav. Endpoint host: mcp.canalnav.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:com.canalnav:mcp:canal-nav.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.