Changes afoot

Our current boat, Caxton, is a 68' semi-trad based on a Graham Reeves hull and fitted out by Barnowl Narrowboats.  Caxton is contemporary boat, chrome fittings, no brass, reverse layout, 5' cross-bed in our cabin, ash fitout, portholed and well equipped with white goods, including a dishwasher!    We had originally opted for a semi-trad because we have two labradors and we imagined that all four of us would be happily encounced on the semi-trad deck while we cruised the canals each day. 

Our new boat, Nb Yarwood, is going to be very different and much more 'traditional'.  Yarwood will be a 66' tug; a 'TUG' because we find the lines of a tug so attractive and we want one!   We have worked out that every critical item we carry on Caxton can be accommodated in the layout of a tug style boat, walking from stem to stern and checking off every bit of kit and identifying where it will 'live' on a new boat.  That done any reservations that Joe had about a tug simply faded away.....

The new boat will have:

• a traditional, Trad, stern rather than a semi-trad.
• a boatman's cabin
• an engine room
• cross shower room, cassette toilet
• smaller galley
• larger saloon
• large hold under the tug deck
• diesel generator in hold.

In the next post I will explain what the rationale is for the changes we are planning.