Narrow boats for hire

Our narrow boats for hire

Your boating holiday is important to you. So it is important to us that your canal boat provides everything that you expect of it, and that our service is all that you require.

For details of the individual narrow boats, click the links opposite. For a more detailed description of a typical narrow boat, click here.

All our narrow boats are built and maintained by the same team which hands them over to you. All of us are focussed on keeping the boats in first-class condition, well equipped and clean, and giving you really good, personal service.

We shall do all we can to make your Pennine canal boat holiday with us the greatest success.

Short Break & Week Boats Friday or Monday start

Weeks: Sowerby Bridge Saturday start

One way Trips

Weeks: Leeds & Liverpool

Holiday information

We believe our information service, from booking to holiday, is unrivalled. We know our local waterways well and are happy to advise on routes before you book. The Information Pack we send you six weeks or so before your canal boating holiday contains the Canal & River Trust Boater's Handbook and DVD, plus our exclusive Holiday Guide and Route Companion giving detailed information on your narrow boat and its contents, routes, arrival information, and everything you need to know.

On board are a comprehensive boat manual, again written by us, with safety and timing information, and several guide books, so you can take your holiday with complete confidence.

Boat hire training is a high priority for us, so we take great care with our handover and lock instruction, which are Quality Assured by the British Marine Federation.

What's on board

We give you a wide choice of accommodation layouts. Some boats have fixed double beds. On others you can choose whether a cabin has a fixed double or two fixed singles – we set it up as you request. The beds go lengthways so there is always room to walk past. Many boats have two loos.

All boats have forward facing windows, radiator central heating, showers, fresh water flush toilets, four-burner cookers with grill and oven, electric fridges, filtered drinking water, lots of worktop and storage space, colour TVs, radio CDs, phone charger points, hair dryers - and many have microwaves and DVDs. A full inventory, bed linen and cruising guides are supplied. Bed guards can be fitted for babies.

For detailed specifications and slideshows of every boat, showing the different bed arrangements, click the links on the right.

Remember that the Tourist Board inspectors see all our narrow boats every year, and are quite capable of telling us when we’ve missed something. They are also very useful in suggesting improvements that customers have liked in other fleets. But a great many other fleets don't want to be independently inspected, and grade their own boats.