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The Sumpners Afloat

Adventures on "Old Nick" – an Ortomarine-built, Vetus powered Electric Serial Hybrid Narrowboat

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Designing a Serial Hybrid

August 10, 2025

After nearly five years of living, working and cruising on “Old Nick”, managing the Electric Narrowboats FB group and organising […]

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Changing the Impeller on a Vetus Generator

June 3, 2024

This weekend I serviced our Vetus GLX6.5SIC generator again. If you are a devoted reader of my technical posts (one […]

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Time for a Service

September 16, 2021

One of the great advantages of an electric serial hybrid narrowboat is the lack of routine maintenance that needs to […]

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The Heat is On

October 7, 2020

We all like our creature comforts and after we are fed, watered, connected to the internet and sheltered from the […]

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The Other Half of a Hybrid

September 23, 2020

When people talk about hybrid engines, it is usually the nice, clean, environmentally friendly part that gets all of the […]

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