For those of you who would love to own an Ortomarine narrowboat but don’t quite have the budget for one of our brand-new electric boats, we may have an opportunity for you! The owners of “Count for Nothing” have reluctantly (due to ill-health) decided that it is the right time…
Those of you who follow us and our boats may know that the very first narrowboat we built with any form of electric propulsion was “Stray Not Far” which was our first Hybrid Marine parallel hybrid and was launched in November 2017. When the opportunity arose for us to buy…
Since March 2021, we have been enjoying driving our Citroen eDispatch electric van. We recently reached the milestone of 50,000 miles driven in the van and we can honestly say we don’t have any regrets at all about going electric. In our previous van these 50,000 miles would have burnt…
September saw the launch of our 13th serial hybrid narrowboat “Amastra”. There is a lot of superstition around the number 13, both good and bad, however we are hoping that new owners, Steve and Eileen Brown have nothing but good luck and happy adventures aboard their new home! The name…
We are happy to report that ‘Minerva’ has now sold! Our new owners were one of the first couples to hire serial hybrid ‘Ollie Owl’ from Cafwin Cruises (https://www.cafwincruises.com/). After that experience they knew they couldn’t go back to a diesel boat, so when they found out Minerva was for…
We have some good news for anyone who would like to own one of our top-spec serial hybrid narrowboats but can’t wait for a new one! “Minerva” which is just over a year old is reluctantly being sold by the owners as they have now made the decision to move…
Kate and Colin Newman are the proud owners of our latest serial hybrid narrowboat “Bears Afloat” which was launched in June. Kate is a talented stained glass artist and high on her priority list for their boat was a studio/work room so that she can work producing her beautiful products…
We are pleased to report that the feedback from the recent Electrika Boat Show has been incredibly positive, with lots of questions about whether it will become an annual event in the future … watch this space! We would like to extend a MASSIVE thank-you to Paul & Kay Sumpner…
We launched our latest serial electric narrowboat in March, and despite the name of the boat, it was expected! “Unexpected” is our 11th serial hybrid and is quite different to any of our previous boats. The American owner had specific design requirements, based predominantly on ease of use for times…
As many of you know, we are extremely keen to encourage and enable other boat builders to build reliable and efficient electrically-propelled narrowboats so that is why we are pleased to announce that we will be working with Justin and Jane from Aqua Narrowboats (UK) Ltd on their first ever…
