Barrow Boat Company

The Barrow Boat company is part of Greenway Marine Ltd. A family Run business with over 25 years experience. They specialise in restorations of traditional wooden boats and also provide moorings winter storage, lifting up to 12 tons and repairs. some 20 GRP hulls (27 to 43 feet) have been fited out to a high standard. The Barrow Boats are only traditional in appearance. Traditional methods of building produce a fine , strong but heavy boat. The Barrow Boat company use modern materials to create a light, easily maintained wooden craft that suits family sailors who have to do everything by themselves. The Barrow Boats are a unique range of clinker sailing and rowing tenders.

They take their name form the fixed wheel beneath the bow and the holes in transform through which the oars go , enabling them to be wheeled on land thus dispensing with the need for a trolley. There are both stem and prem dighies in the range. Besides being classically pretty they are very light and easy to manoeuvre. They can be towed hung on davits , or stowed on deck. They are car – topable , the rig rolls up and it stowed inside the boat and they can take a small outboard engine. The materials with which they are built Wooden boat to ‘take up’-just put her in the water and away you go. The straight forward rig means she can be ready to sail in minutes.

For more information, please visit http://www.barrowboats.co.uk

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