Canal Boats

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Friday, Oct 25 2013 by

A canal boat or narrow boat is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of Great Britain.

In the context of British Inland Waterways, “narrow boat” refers to the original working boats built in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries for carrying goods on the narrow canals (where locks and bridge holes would have a maximum width of at least 7 feet (2.1 m); some locks on the Shropshire Union are even smaller). The term is extended to modern “narrowboats” used for recreation and more and more as homes, whose design is an interpretation of the old boats for modern purposes and modern materials.

Mobypicture offices in a canal boat (StreetView)
Mobypicture offices in a canal boat

Canal Boat (StreetView)
Canal Boat
Canal Boat Club (StreetView)
Canal Boat Club

Old Friends Bookends narrowboat (StreetView)
Old Friends Bookends narrowboat

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Boat - The Canal Clipper (Birds Eye)
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Boat - The Canal Clipper

Canal boat yard (Google Maps)
Canal boat yard

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