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The Sumpners Afloat

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

Technical

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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Cruising

Golden Year(s) – a 2021 retrospective

December 8, 2021

As 2021 comes to an end and we celebrate a whole year aboard, we thought we’d take time to look […]

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Cruising

I Want to Break Free

June 6, 2021

Sunday 30th May Well considering we only intended to stay at Droitwich Spa Marina for 10 days after launch, thanks […]

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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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General

Bits and Pieces

November 30, 2020

With just a couple of weeks left of the build, we thought it might be nice to give you an […]

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