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The Sumpners Afloat

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

Cruising

2024 – that was the year that was!

January 6, 2025

Wow! Another great year. We can’t quite believe that it has now been 4 years since Old Nick was launched. […]

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Cruising

A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall

September 30, 2024

23 to 30 Sep – continuing along the Oxford and exciting news Well didn’t it rain? We planned to move […]

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Cruising, General

Electric Propulsion Trials Event

June 4, 2021

Thursday 27th May A frenzy (maybe a slight exaggeration?) of cleaning and tidying was the order of the day! Finally […]

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Technical

The Future of Narrowboat Propulsion

August 2, 2020

“The times they are a changing” and this very interesting video presentation by Bowman Bradley of the IWA, gives us […]

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