This boat is as convenient as a small, modern city apartment. There is style, quality and comfort here in a slinky, low-profile cruising barge.
The vessel was craned-out at the end of the 2015 season She had new bottom paint, new anodes, a new,
(second), cooling water intake, (two filters / switch-over system in
case of blockage), new topside paint, new non-slip deck paint and
several interior improvements at the same time. The barge is a custom one-off design by Nick Branson, built by Oxford cruisers. Length is 16.95 Metres Beam is 4.35 metres. Draft is 1.2 metres. Although a fixed wheelhouse, air draft, at 2.20 metres, is a few inches less than that of a conventional replica-barge when the wheelhouse is down! It was designed to fit under the lowest bridge on the Thames. It fits all European waterways, including the Nivernais and similar smaller, non-standard gauge canals.
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