Narrowboat gifts for him.
Personalised gifts for the narrowboat owner, hire-boater, or canal-bound son/dad/granddad/partner in your life. We do one thing well: a typographic print of his boat's name, the canal he cruises, and a date that mattered. Editorial paper, posted from the UK in five working days.
The boat-name print.
Boat name in editorial serif, route in small caps, the date in italic. Three sizes (A4 / A3 / A2), 200gsm semi-glossy paper, framed or unframed. Made to order so it's never been printed for anyone else.
A gift for any of these.
Forty, fifty, sixty, seventy. The age someone reads the Nicholson's end-to-end and starts saying things like "you know, the South Oxford is underrated".
When the working life ends and the slow life begins. The day they hand back the keys to the office and pick up the boat hook for the season.
Because the boat's name probably already commemorates one. Ten years on the cut, twenty-five together, a print to mark them both.
For the dad who can describe every lock on the Llangollen by name and depth — and who pretends not to mind when his children get them wrong.
A few that come up.
- I don't know his boat's name. Help.
- Half the gift is the right name. We'd suggest asking — most boaters will name it without knowing why you're asking. Failing that: check his Facebook, his bookshelf, or his number plate. If you genuinely can't find out without giving it away, order anyway and email us within 24 hours with the correction; we'll wait.
- Will it arrive in time for the birthday?
- Standard delivery is 5–9 working days from order. If the date's tight, email us first and we'll see what we can do.
- Is the route mandatory?
- No. Some boaters cruise everywhere — type "the cut, anywhere" or the canal he loves most. We've also had "Llangollen and back twice" and "Manchester to anywhere with a pub" through the customiser.
