Do many NB's have a sun roof.

[loner]

I noticed an ad for sun roofs. Do many narrowboats have them. What are the pros and cons? I haven't noticed any here in the states but many of our boats have a large outside area where we can spend time.

Edited September 28, 2009 by DHutch

[Boatgypsy]

I noticed an ad for sun roofs. Do many narrowboats have them. What are the pros and cons? I haven't noticed any here in the states but many of our boats have a large outside area where we can spend time.

 

 

Condensation! It drips all over the floor from sun rooves.

[MoominPapa]

I noticed an ad for sun roofs. Do many narrowboats have them. What are the pros and cons? I haven't noticed any here in the states but many of our boats have a large outside area where we can spend time.

 

Melaleuca does. They are about 4' by 18", wooden framed and double glazed, the top layer of glass is laminated. No problems with drips or condensation. There's one about the eating/sitting area and one above the galley and they give a wonderfully light boat even though we have small portholes.

 

You can see them (just) here. There's a pole rack and stuff resting on the front of the rear skylight and the back of the front one.

 

MP.

 

[Guest User]

I noticed an ad for sun roofs. Do many narrowboats have them. What are the pros and cons? I haven't noticed any here in the states but many of our boats have a large outside area where we can spend time.

.... do you mean using the roof as a sun deck ? There was a fairly radical design on a NB ... Whitfield ... which wasn't to many people's tastes but IIRC had a sundeck. Part of of the problem is climbing up onto the roof to get to it, and on a NB, there's not a lot of room once you're up there.

Edited September 27, 2009 by Graham!

[Phil Ambrose]

Melaleuca does. They are about 4' by 18", wooden framed and double glazed, the top layer of glass is laminated. No problems with drips or condensation. There's one about the eating/sitting area and one above the galley and they give a wonderfully light boat even though we have small portholes.

 

You can see them (just) here. There's a pole rack and stuff resting on the front of the rear skylight and the back of the front one.

 

MP.

 

 

And what looks like two huge chimneys. LOL

[Proper Job]

And what looks like two huge chimneys. LOL

Its the big bore exhaust kit for an FR2. The chav stripes go on on the next repaint

[Athy]

Quite a few '70s and '80s narrowboats were built with sliding sunroofs. I think that soem Jannel hire boats had them, and maybe those made by a builder called Sentinel.

[MoominPapa]

Its the big bore exhaust kit for an FR2.

 

I get vertigo fixing the bean-cans on the ends.

 

MP.

[Guest User]

Quite a few '70s and '80s narrowboats were built with sliding sunroofs. I think that soem Jannel hire boats had them, and maybe those made by a builder called Sentinel.

 

... see this thread ? CWDF Frobishers CLICKY

[Athy]

... see this thread ? CWDF Frobishers CLICKY

Yes, thanks, those are the ones I meant. I'm not sure where I got the name "Sentinel" from; there was one of these boats in a hire fleet in the '90s and perhaps it was called 'Sentinel'.

[Pete of Ebor]

Quite a few '70s and '80s narrowboats were built with sliding sunroofs. I think that soem Jannel hire boats had them, and maybe those made by a builder called Sentinel.

 

We hired this in 1994 from Napton Narrowboats I think ?? She was called Gloucester Grebe. We did the Warwick Ring, and this was the only day it didn't actually rain... we had a sort of foggy drizzle instead. We never actually got to open it until the saturday morning on the way back to the boatyard. It leaked rainwater all over one of the beds and you wonder why there aren't many on the canals..

Edited September 28, 2009 by Pete of Ebor

[Pete of Ebor]

We hired this in 1994 from Napton Narrowboats I think ?? She was called Gloucester Grebe. We did the Warwick Ring, and this was the only day it didn't actually rain... we had a sort of foggy drizzle instead. We never actually got to open it until the saturday morning on the way back to the boatyard. It leaked rainwater all over one of the beds and you wonder why there aren't many on the canals..

 

Sorry - don't know why the link doesn't seem to work properly: seems only to work when it feels like it !