Quality, Innovation and Style
Ortomarine’s goal is to build environmentally friendly boats that both significantly reduce the vessel’s “carbon foot print” and create a quieter, cleaner and more natural boating experience. We want to give our customers, the “greenest” narrowboat that current technologies allow, without compromising on quality or cost.
Imagine cruising in near silence, with zero emissions, at one with nature - that is the Ortomarine experience. As one of the UK’s leading electric hybrid narrowboat builders, we can offer you a number of systems from different electric engine manufacturers, backed up with real-life data collected from all of our boats.
We will guide you through the design process, balancing your bespoke requirements with cost effective, proven solutions, ensuring your dreams are realised, on time and within budget.
When you commission an Ortomarine boat, you can be sure that every aspect of the external, internal and technical design is completed to a single high standard. For this reason, we only accept orders for "Fully Fitted" designs and not for "Hull Only" or "Sail Away" builds.
As of January 2024 our next available build slot is for boat completion in the Spring of 2026, but things do change occasionally so if you are interested in a new build please contact us on +441299 489424. Please see our Pricing page under “Our Boats” for more information about guideline prices for our new boats.
Great Boat Review in Canal Boat Magazine
We are very proud to say that we have had a very complimentary boat review published in the March edition of Canal Boat Magazine. We are hoping that this independent review will help to get our name out there – and inspire any potential customers to contact us! The reviewed…
New Boats for Scotland
We are pleased to announce that we have secured orders for the supply of 4 more narrowboats to be used for hire on the Scottish Canal network in 2017. The demand for hire boats in Scotland has seen a steady increase in the past couple of years and there seems…
