Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding


Latest News: March 2009

New Boat For Sale. Sold!!

Our newly built 48ft cruiser has just been sold. But we are in the process of building another boat! Keep checking back for details, or call us on 01785 282227 for more information.
48ft Cruiser


Styles of Boats

Day Boat
Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding - Boats Built to your specification
Purposely built for single day use for hire companies, or for people wishing to hire from their own base. Read more

Week/ Weekend Boat
Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding - Boats Built to your specification
Built as a hire boat, and as an affordable narrowboat for cruising as this has the cabin space for sleeping. Read more

 Extended Cruising
Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding - Boats Built to your specification
Ideal for holidays, weeks at a time, long getaways to see more of Britain's canal heritage.
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dot Live Aboard
Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding - Boats Built to your specification
Intended for people who want to live the narrowboat life, upon the water. Read more

Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding - Narrowboat Specialists based in Staffordshire

Our Boats

Our boats are usually of a traditional bow with variable front deck size and height (well deck or tug style), built to your requirements.
All boats are finished in 2 coats of 2 pack black epoxy bitumastic and a sprayed coat of zinc phosphate red oxide primer.

 

No cost steelwork options include:
Integral handrail on the edge of the cabin, or inboard cruiser style handrail
Well deck / tug deck
All rubbing strakes welded top and bottom - cabin and rubbing strake's tops are arc welded
Side doors either 2 or 3 ft width
Windows or portholes or combination of the two
Steel back doors / hatch 2ft or 2ft 6"
Cruiser type stern or traditional type stern (semi traditional is available at extra cost)

All boats come complete with 1.5" stern tube, weed hatch access and lift up back deck access on traditional boats.

All steering gear, utilising the best quality Warstock hardware.

Engine beds, keel cooler and diesel tank installed as standard.

T-stud, rear dollies and fender eyes installed as standard bow and stern.

Optional Extras

Front panel steel doors for half glazing
Steel pump out tank
steel extra fuel tank
Bow thruster
Bow/stern lockers
Pigeon boxes
Houdini hatches
Semi-traditional sterns: single or double skinned
Boatman's roll
Extra wide/long rear back hatches
Side hatches
Extra side rubbing strake


Nick Thorpe Boatbuilding
Units 22-23
Ladfordfields Industrial Park
Seighford
Stafford
ST18 9QE
Tel: 01785 282227
Fax: 01785 282223
email: enquiries@nickthorpeboatbuilding.com

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