Electric Narrowboats

ELECTRIC BOATING on the inland waterways

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October 15, 2025

Bowman Bradley, chair of the Inland Waterways Association’s Sustainable Boating Group, discusses what’s probably the greatest technological change on the inland waterways since the introduction of the motorboat about 100 years ago. THE IWA Sustainable Boating Group has been monitoring the development of electric drive for narrowboats since the group’s inception in 2019. We recognise…
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IWA Calls on Government to Back Green Future for Britain’s Leisure Boaters

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September 23, 2025

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA), through its Sustainable Boating Group, has made a Submission to the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) Call for Evidence on Decarbonising Smaller Vessels. It has looked at propulsion and the use of domestic energy on leisure boats. The Group has a clear strategy to decarbonise this sector, so a submission has…
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SAVING ENERGY on boat heating

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July 15, 2025

IT IS usually said that a typical narrowboat needs about 2kW to keep it comfortable in cold weather, although more is obviously needed to heat it initially. Energy (and therefore cost) can be saved by reducing losses, utilising waste heat and/or installing a more efficient system. Malcolm Bridge, IWA Sustainable Boating Group, gives us more…
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ABC BOAT HIRE: New electric day boat

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September 27, 2024

ABC Boat Hire has launched another electrically powered day boat, this time at Alvechurch Marina on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal near Bromsgrove. The 36ft Fun Day narrowboat accommodates up to 10 people. Haley Hadley, ABC Leisure Group’s marketing and sales director, says: “Britain’s beautiful network of inland waterways is important for biodiversity, and the…
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Clearwater Boats trial new all-electric Wilderness Beaver on River Trent

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October 25, 2023

I MET Laurie Lavender of Clearwater Boats at Farndon Marina where he was trialling the all-electric, 23ft long Wilderness Beaver, writes Alison Alderton. Now fabricated in Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire, the latest Beaver is assembled from three constituent parts: the roof, body and modified hull, now increased to 10mm thick glass fibre, to cope with the ‘rough…
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A fitting final boat

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Phil Pickin

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October 24, 2023

I’M NOT about to drop the bombshell news that Electric Dragon is the last boat from Ortomarine. Far from it; the company has an order book that takes it well into 2025. No, Electric Dragon was the last shell to be built by the renowned boat builder Jim Sparks, who for many decades traded as…
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