Hand crafted boats by quality craftsmen
The Northwich Boat Company
Our Sailaways range of narrow and wide beam canal boats are built on our own design of shells to a very high specification by our highly skilled and enthusiastic boat building team.
Boatbuilding backed by guarantee
Our Quality difference
All of the work on your Northwich Boat is carried out in our own factory by our own staff.
Buy with confidence
From your initial enquiry to the hand over of your boat, we take care to make the process easy and hassle free.
How to buy
Visit us and discuss your requirements, we love to talk about boats. Call 01270 760 160 or use the form below.
High quality and great choice
We believe that our sailaways are unsurpassed for quality and value. All of our boats conform to the Recreational Craft Directive (RCD), and come with pressure tested diesel tanks. All of our sailaways come with engines fitted and a choice of window layout.
Our sailaways range in size from 45ft to 70ft in length and can be specified in 6ft 10in, 10ft, 11ft and 12ft widths.
They are designed to provide the ideal staring point for a self fit out project for the enthusiastic DIY boater and can be adapted to suite a range of capabilities and budgets.
Sailaway Spray Foamed
The entry point to our range. This boat comes with steel front and rear doors and a set of side doors as standard. It has dense application of spray foam, is battened and has some ballast under the floor. An engine and running gear are fitted.
Sailaway Lined
Steel front and rear doors and a set of side doors as standard. It has dense application of spray foam, is battened and has some ballast under the floor. An engine and running gear are fitted. It iso lined with oak panels and solid oak trimming throughout (ash panels with ash trim and painted panels with wood trim are also available). It comes with windows and mushroom vents installed. Full 12v and 230v wiring looms are also included.
Sailaway Lined with additions
Steel front and rear doors and a set of side doors as standard. It has dense application of spray foam, is battened and has some ballast under the floor. An engine and running gear are fitted. It is lined with oak panels and solid oak trimming throughout (ash panels with ash trim and painted panels with wood trim are also available). It comes with windows and mushroom vents installed. Full 12v and 230v wiring looms are also included. It has a 2kW inverter installed and working (3kW upgrade also available), diesel fired central heating boiler installed and connected to three radiators. A calorifier and hot and cold water pipes are also installed along with a water pump.
Painted Sailaway
We can complete any of the above sailaway boats with a professionally painted finish in our purpose built facility. Includes hull blacking in two-pack epoxy primer with blacking over. Gunwales, decks and roof with anti-slip treatment. A choice of colour and coach lines above the gunwale in two-pack paint.
From Our Clients
Here at Northwich Boats we offer a professional, friendly service from a quality Canal Boat builder that you can trust. The Northwich Boat Company is part of Elton Moss Boatbuilders and was founded in 2003. Since then we’ve designed and built over 250 boats. Here are two comments that customers have said to us recently:
“The advice and guidance you’ve given me so far has been second to none. It’s really helped me make the right decisions and realise what’s important to me. I’m very excited about picking up my boat and I know I’m in safe hands”
“It is interesting to look back at previous specifications and boats that we have looked at. While many of the boats that we saw were high on gloss and glamour, the Anderton 57 has a quiet air of understated quality and uncluttered spaciousness. Knowing what we now do about what goes on under the skin, we have chosen a more honest boat, whose worth and many extras are invested where we believe they matter most.”
Get in touch to talk about sailaway boats
We are located at Kings Lock Boatyard, Booth Lane, Middlewich, Cheshire, CW10 0JJ.
If coming by car, turn off Booth Lane over the canal bridge with the Kings Lock pub in front of you. Turn right towards the pub car park and our gates are located in the right hand corner. For those who prefer to navigate by canal, we are located next to Bridge 167 on the Trent and Mersey.
Phone us on 01270 760 160