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Traditional narrowboat engine room.
It was where the family cooked eat slept and stored all their possessions.
It would often be painted with roses and castles.
I feel like the engine room is a bit of a waste of valuable space.
I have a traditional stern narrowboat with an engine room.
I rarely have more than two guests on the boat.
Especially if you generously give your engine a room of.
Engine room painted castle roses the boatman s cabin was traditionally the living accommodation area of the working boat.
Internally trads may have an engine room forward of a traditional boatman s cabin or an enclosed engine tucked away out of sight and the increased living space this brings.
However the shorter the cabin the less living space you have at your disposal.
Most of my visitors are out with me for my discovery days.
A traditional or trad stern narrowboat has a limited amount of space for guests to stand with the helmsman but the engine is enclosed within the main cabin.
This leads to reduced head room at the back of the boat the rear trad area usually has a head room of 5ft 4in as opposed to a typical head room of 6ft 4in in the rest of the boat.
A slow revving reliable vintage engine is very popular with some boat owners today provided there s space in your boat for an engine room room beneath the boat for a large propeller and a fairly roomy wallet.
Capturing the detail and fine lines of these traditional craft we ve created a truly elegant and award winning boat.
2 pack epoxy jotomastic paint to all.
A shorter boat costs less to maintain and moor and allows access to more of the inland waterways network.
Cruiser stern edit cruiser stern narrowboat at tardebigge.
Roof hatch for centre engine room fit 390 00.
I ve got a 48ft traditional narrowboat.
Narrowboat ownership is all about compromise.
Our traditional style narrowboats draw inspiration from the working boats that once graced our british waterways.
Click the engines above to hear the sounds of some traditional engines at work.
Poor sleeping arrangements courtesy of the engine room.
When i bought the boat the previous owner had built a wooden surround for the engine but as he made this out of chipboard and the boat was sitting in a moist environment for a long time before the sale the wood lost its structural integrity and fell apart when i tried to climb out of the back hatch.
This type of stern is perfect for me.
