Boat painters at show for first time

We're delighted to be able to welcome Willow Boats and Vimart Signwriting as exhibitors at the National Boat Share Show at Braunston on 23rd & 24th April.

Castleber is one of the shared ownership narrowboats
repainted by Willow Boats  Ltd.

The two companies - headed respectively by Sally Tooze and Martyn King - work closely together and in recent years have done complete repaints on a number of shared ownership narrowboats including Castleber, Cheddington, Compton, Ellen, Farndon, Sorceress, Venture (in which a share is currently on offer) and Vulcan.

Signwriting by Vimart for Cheddington
including a reminder of the village's notoriety
as the site of the 'Great Train Robbery'.

Boat count now up to 16

The number of boats booked in to the National Boat Share Show at Braunston on 23rd & 24th April has now risen to 16.

Amongst the latest entries is First Dawn - the first boat that BCBM built specifically for shared ownership.  

First Dawn, a 61ft semi-trad narrowboat, launched in 2010

Two brand new boats will be launched at the show, one from Carefree Cruising - awaiting the decision of owners on a name - and one from BCBM, Breaking Dawn.

The list of entries so far is:

Alcedonia
Annabelle II
Black Watch
Breaking Dawn (to be launched at the show)
Champion
Firefly
First Dawn
Happy Days (to be launched at the show) 
Heartsease
Oakmere Symphony
Tess 
Viceroy
Water Lily
Willow
Winding Down

Visitors will be able to view the boats, get on board and talk to owners and to management companies.  All the boats in the show have shares on offer.

If you have a share for sale, why not bring your boat to Braunston for the weekend of 23rd & 24th?  Full details are here.