Wide beam restoration

[MyWayMatt]

Hello there!! 
 

Can you travel from Lancashire to Heartfordshire on a wide beam boat?  Not sure if the whole way is wide enough in regards to locks. 
 

thanks 

matt 

[mrsmelly]

Not Inland.

[David Mack]

Only by sea or on the back of a truck.

[MtB]

37 minutes ago, MyWayMatt said:

Hello there!! 
 

Can you travel from Lancashire to Heartfordshire on a wide beam boat?  Not sure if the whole way is wide enough in regards to locks. 
 

thanks 

matt 

 

No reason not to do it with a lorry. (The locks are only 7ft wide at the chicane.)

 

Prolly cost you about £2k, including the crane lifts at each end.

[Stroudwater1]

If you are looking to restore and need work doing by anyone else you will find it a lot cheaper generally to get the work done in the North, so might be best to factor that bit in too? 

[blackrose]

15 hours ago, MtB said:

 

No reason not to do it with a lorry. (The locks are only 7ft wide at the chicane.)

 

Prolly cost you about £2k, including the crane lifts at each end.

 

Probably more like £4K these days. I had my widebeam lifted out, transported by road and put back in 6 years ago and that was more than £3K in total. That was the absolute cheapest price I could get from a transport broker. I had other quotes of over £5K direct including one from Tuckeys.

 

This assumes you have to hire a 100T crane at either end as most boatyard cranes won't be able to lift more than about 20 tonnes.  

Edited January 28, 2022 by blackrose