A narrowboat is a long and narrow flat-bottomed vessel that has been designed to fit into very narrow channels along the British canal system.

Type of canal boats. Get Member Rewards Club Marine App Club Marine Magazine. There are also a number of other styles which are not seen as much on the canal network including a Josher Tug wide beam and Dutch Barge. BOAT TYPES Narrowbeam widebeam dutch barge and cruisers are all types of canal boats you are likely to encounter on the UK waterways.

Restoration projects take place to restore closed canals and canal museums have opened. Cruiser-stern narrowboats allow people to congregate on deck in good weather and the summer holiday season. The three main stern types are cruiser semi-traditional or traditional.

You just need to stop and look at Venices canals for all of five minutes and you will glimpse a fabulous collection of boats which you wont be able to see anywhere else. The standard beam of a narrowboat is usually around 6ft 10ins but it is never more than seven feet. You can also read more about the other boats and crafts that youll see on our waterways.

The ability to leave the canal and navigate the lakes as well thus saving on the time and labor of unloading and reloading cargoes. Designed originally to maximise load carrying capacity on the commercial waterways little has changed in the last 200 years with respect to overall dimensions. Boats have been adapted to serve any and all purposes that cars are used for in the rest of the world.

A narrowboat is a specific type of canal boat native to Britain and a barge is usually a large commercial freight carrier though recreational barges do exist. They usually have a steel hull and come with either a traditional or cruiser stern the same as a regular narrowboat. HULL SIZE TYPE SHAPE.

Two standard 7-foot narrowboats on the Montgomery Canal. Any boat that is. In 1895 the Cleveland Steel Canal Boat Company built and sent out a fleet of steel canal boats consisting of one.