As part of our longer term retirement plans, my wife and I are looking to travel the canal and river network in the UK.
To this end we sold our canal cruiser last summer (plastic boat) and committed to building our own narrowboat. It will be for holidays initially and then for us to live aboard and travel into retirement.
It took a long while to find just the right builder to build the steel shell, But we ended up with a fantastic builder with a very high quality standard and a moderate price (Read not cheap, here). It will be a 47 foot Tug style narrowboat and she will be named "Tatton".
The Builder is called X R and D Boatbuilders from Newark in Nottinghamshire, Check out their website to see what they do. https://www.xrandd.co.uk/
They have now started and the steel is due to be finished around the beginning of May.
It will then go to a boatyard hard standing where the rest of the fitout is up to us.
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If you would like to follow along and check in on progress then we have a Facebook page called "Tatton Tug", Say hi if you want to, I'm happy to talk about the boat to those that are interested. https://www.facebook.com/tatton.tug?com ... 3NjA4OTEy
Thank you.
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