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Living aboard
Waterway signs, made personal.

Most "waterway signs" are generic: a printed silhouette, a rented mooring number, a rule board. This is a sign for one boat: your boat's actual name, hand-set in the bottle-green and oxblood palette of the cut,…
Making her yours
What are the best narrowboat names?

The best narrowboat names are short enough to call out across a lock and tied to something real about the boat or its owner, rather than the cleverest pun on the cut.
Buying her
What does a narrowboat licence cost?

The licence is charged by the length and width of the boat, then adjusted by two surcharges that are both rising on a published schedule to 2028. CRT does not publish a price table, so here is exactly what driv…
Making her yours
What does narrowboat signwriting cost?

Hand signwriting is a skilled craft, priced like one. No one publishes a rate, so you get a quote - but the price climbs with length and decoration (cheap self-apply vinyl is a different, far-lower-cost thing):…
Thinking about it
What is a canal boat called?

Short answer: a narrowboat. Longer answer: "canal boat" is the umbrella, "narrowboat" is the specific type you'll see most, and "barge" and "longboat" mean particular things that will get you politely corrected…
Thinking about it
What is a narrowboat?

A narrowboat is a long, slim steel boat built to fit the narrow locks of Britain's canals: no wider than 6 ft 10 in, and anywhere from about 30 to 72 ft long. Here's what that means in practice: how they're bui…
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What is narrowboat signwriting?

Narrowboat signwriting is the hand-lettering of a boat’s name, number and other cabin-side details in enamel paint, traditionally in a shaded serif that reads cleanly from the towpath.
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What is roses and castles canal art?

Roses and castles is the traditional folk-art style painted on Britain’s working narrowboats: tight bunches of bright roses and small, romantic castle scenes over a dark ground.
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What is the average price of a narrowboat?

There's no single average price for a narrowboat: second-hand boats needing work start in the low thousands, while a new-build shell-and-fit-out can run into six figures, with everything in between depending on…
Living aboard
What is the fine for not having a waterways licence?

There's no single fixed fine: the Canal & River Trust can take enforcement action against unlicensed boats and the cost varies by case, so check current guidance directly rather than relying on a quoted figure.
Buying her
What is the lifespan of a narrowboat?

A well-built, well-maintained steel narrowboat can last for decades: there is no fixed expiry point, provided the hull is blacked regularly and looked after as it ages.
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What to buy someone who lives on a narrowboat.

Liveaboards are short on space, big on opinions, and have spent years optimising the things they actually use. The best gifts either earn their square inch or tie back to a moment.
Thinking about it
What to take on a canal boat holiday.

The packing list people actually forget, the tips that change how the week goes, and the three things worth asking at the handover.
Product or collection
Boat gifts that aren't tat.

For canal boats, narrowboats, wide-beam barges, river cruisers. One thing done well: a typographic print of the boat's name, the waterway it lives on, and a date that mattered. Editorial paper, posted from the …
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Canal boat & narrowboat gifts. Four miles an hour.

For canal boat owners, hire-boat regulars and anyone whose holidays happen at four miles an hour. Every piece made to order with the boat's name, the waterway it travels, and a date worth keeping.
Product or collection
Canal boat art prints.

Personalised canal boat art prints, typographic posters of the things every boater knows by heart. Your boat's name in editorial serif, the canal you cruise, a date that mattered. Set live in the customiser, pr…
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Canal boat gifts for her.

Personalised gifts for the narrowboat owner, liveaboard, or canal-bound woman in your life: mum, partner, sister, daughter, friend. One product, done well: an editorial typographic print of her boat's name, her…
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Canal boat 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 tha…
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Continuous cruiser gifts.

Continuous cruisers live on the move. No permanent berth, no fixed address: just the boat's name and the next stretch of waterway. Gifts that work with that: light enough to carry, meaningful enough to keep. A …
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First year afloat gifts.

Year one is when everything changes: the heating, the tankage maths, the question of whether four miles an hour is genuinely a better pace to live at. A personalised print of the boat's name, the canal, and the…
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Liveaboard gifts.

Liveaboards are small-space professionals. Every object on the boat competes for a square inch; most gifts don't survive the audition. A typographic print of the boat's name, the canal she's moored on, and the …
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Narrowboat holiday gifts.

You hired a boat for a week, learned to work a lock by the third one, slept like the dead, came home brown and slightly sunburnt. A personalised print of the hire-boat name, the canal you cruised, and the week …
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Print Your Boat Photo

Your favourite shot of her, printed exactly as it is — checked honestly against every size we sell before you pay.
Product or collection
Send us her photograph. We paint her.

One clear photo of the boat is all it takes. Pick watercolour, ink line, oil, vintage poster or painterly, see her painted before you spend anything, then choose how she is printed — paper, canvas, metal, wood,…
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Ten cards. Your boat. Anything inside.

Ten folded A5 cards with the same editorial typography as the prints: boat name in display serif, canal route, the day that mattered. Blank inside, so you can write whatever the moment is. Envelopes included.
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The Boat Portrait

A photo of the boat — painted in one of five distinct styles, from watercolour to 1930s travel poster, and printed gallery-grade in the UK.
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The Narrowboat Name Print

Her name set in bottle green and oxblood — the canal, the year, the mooring — with an optional lock-gate, kingfisher or swans illustration behind the type. No photo needed.
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Your boat. Framed in solid wood.

The same editorial typographic poster (boat name, canal route, the day that mattered) set inside a solid wood frame with shatter-resistant plexiglass. Hangs ready out of the box.
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Your boat. Wrapped on canvas.

The same editorial typographic poster, printed on canvas and gallery-wrapped around an FSC-certified slim wood stretcher. Hangs straight out of the box, no frame needed.
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Your boat. Your morning brew.

Eleven-ounce white ceramic, wrapped with your boat's name in editorial serif, the canal you cruise, and a date that mattered. Dishwasher and microwave safe. Posted in five working days.