Cruise the canals around London moor in historic Bath Oxford or Chester.

Barge and narrowboat. Hiring a narrowboat or barge sets you loose to explore over 2000 wonderful miles of rivers canals weaving their way through our countryside and heritage. This means narrowboats can navigate both the wide and narrow locked canals found in the UK. Generally they are all made entirely of steel although some older boats have wooden and sometimes even glass reinforced plastic GRP cabins.

On 28032012 at 0043 Phylis said. ABC Leisure Group Limited has been building boats and providing full marina services to canal users for over 40 years with long experience of. The right narrowboat can fulfill a boaters dream to cruise the UK network whilst offering home comforts and comfortable living space.

Posted March 28 2012. We are proud of our reputation for quality boat sales and excellent after sales service meaning that many customers who buy a narrowboat from us return to us year after year as well as recommending us to their friends. However there are some craft which are used for leisure that are a few inches wider than the maximum 7 feet beam of a narrowboat and are generally referred to as Widebeams.

A narrowboat is the most common choice for the explorer as their beam width is restricted to 610 or 21m. We offer the widest range of canal narrow boats in the UK. A beautifully equipped contemporary narrowboat with the space and flexibility to.

So having looked at what a narrowboat is lets turn our attention to barges. We were moored behind a dutch barge styled narrowboat over the weekend and we really could not figure out the reasoning behind one. Narrowboats Widebeams and Barges All narrowboats are 6 feet 10 inches wide.

Varying in length from 40-120 ft with a beam of 10 - 16ft. If you want a dutch barge at least get one that vaugley resembles a dutch barge and if you want a narrowboat get a narrowboat. Black Prince have been selling narrowboats for over 25 years from their head office at Stoke Wharf in Stoke Prior near Bromsgrove Worcestershire.