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Narrow boat and barge difference. As verbs the difference between barge and boat is that barge is to intrude or break through particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner while boat is to travel by boat. It is not a barge a big beamy cargo-carrying tub. Narrowboats are so called as they have to navigate the narrow canals which can only take boats up to 6 10 wide in their locks and these canals make up the majority of the UK waterways particularly in the Midlands.

There is the semi trad and and now a new style which we call a semi cruiser the cruiser the tug style and the narrow beam Dutch barge. We were moored behind a dutch barge styled narrowboat over the weekend and we really could not figure out the reasoning behind one. Widebeams are wider than narrowboats and dutch barges are larger still.

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. Many have a vee-section hull can be suitable for cruising estuarys or even crossing the North Sea to France in calm weathers but they are designed for the inland waterways and are not sea-going vessels. As nouns the difference between barge and narrowboat is that barge is a large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo while narrowboat is a barge used on the narrow canals of england.

Narrowboats Widebeams and Barges All narrowboats are 6 feet 10 inches wide. Boats with inverters or AC landlinesgenerators can utilise electric plug-in heating. Narrow boats are generally Cat D and although a few have done the crossing its a very risky business.

However most people would say a canal boat and narrow boat is the same thing and a barge is slightly different. Choose a narrowboat holiday on the Thames in one of our comfy fully-refurbished barges and get the holiday of a lifetime on a budget of as little as 30 per person per night. Generally they are all made entirely of steel although some older boats have wooden and sometimes even glass reinforced plastic GRP cabins.

Heating systems on a narrow boat are typically fueled by oil in our case commonly diesel but more on that later gas or solid fuel such as wood andor coal. And it is not a houseboat a lump of floating residential real estate often with no capacity to operate under its own steam. As nouns the difference between barge and narrowboat is that barge is a large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo while narrowboat is a barge used on the narrow canals of england.