canaller

noun, canal boat | ‘canal boat’: a long narrow boat used for carrying freight on canals (COD)

“Well anyway, when the fog lifted, there was 18 or 20 of those old canallers dropped their hook out off the Head ’cause they couldn’t come on down, eh.”

“But then too you’ve got to recognize the little canallers that they were sailing on was like 300 feet long where the big ones now are like 730 feet, and they don’t roll like the old ones used to.”