Day hire on Bridgewater....

[sinkorswim]

Well myself and my better half (alegedly) have a hankering to try out a narrow boat (Sky tv has a lot to answer for!) so I looked around the web and found Claymoore at Preston Brooke which is reasonably close to us, they seem to do a day hire which we thought would be a good idea for our first time afloat. So has anybody else here tried this? if so how did you enjoy it?

You seem to get from 9.30-5.30 on the boat for the day hire, how far along the Bridgewater canal would you get approx before you have to return? We will talk to Claymoore about this obviously but would welcome other peoples opinions, any other tips/advice would be most welcome.

Thanks.

[RichardH]

Day hire is a great way of testing the water so to speak before possibly taking a boat out for a short break or a week. From Claymoore you can have a great day's cruising.

[Jim Lae]

Well myself and my better half (alegedly) have a hankering to try out a narrow boat

 

 

You may like to have a look at Thorn Marine at Stockton Heath . The Day Hire Boats appear to be very

popular and a cruise upto Lymm and back is a good day out.

 

http://www.thornmarine.co.uk/html/boat_hire.html

[Pie Eater]

We moor in Lymm and it would take us 4 - 5 hours to get to Preston Brook but other boats can do it quicker!

 

Steve

[1066]

We moor in Lymm and it would take us 4 - 5 hours to get to Preston Brook but other boats can do it quicker!

 

Steve

 

You might get there quicker if you turned your engine on !

[sinkorswim]

You may like to have a look at Thorn Marine at Stockton Heath . The Day Hire Boats appear to be very

popular and a cruise upto Lymm and back is a good day out.

 

 

 

Thanks for that, I grew up in Lymm but haven't been back for years (too many) so that sounds like a very nice day out. I'll speak to Thorn as well. Cheers.

[Liam]

Thorn Marine has already been mentioned, which I could also recommend. They have 3 day hire boats but only operate 2 at the moment I think. You will need to book well in advance as they are very popular!

 

There is also Claymoore Navigation which operate a day hire boat (might be 2, actually?) which are right at the southern end of the Bridgewater at Preston Brook.

 

And at the other end I think Boothstown basin operate a day hire boat too.

[Troll]

If you hire one from Boothstown Marina, you can go as fast as you like.

 

Well every body else that hires there seems to anyway.

 

and they do have a boat thats like a proper narrowboat rather than a day boat type of thing so I would expect you to get a better feel of it

Edited January 3, 2009 by Troll