Wincham Boat Sales

No, the majority of our builds are standard ranges which we accept deposit on and only require final balance 1 week prior to the boat being delivered to your destination. These funds are all held in a client’s account which means your money is safe. Unless your vessel is a bespoke build only then would we consider stage payments.

Every build comes with 12 Months warranty with the fabricator upon receipt of the boat, in case there are any initial problems when you first receive your vessel. Narrowboats ltd personally offer several care packages upon completion, which feature tuition of cruising your brand-new craft, ‘water nav’ the ‘sat nav’ of the waterways and canals plus lots of handy useful tips to help you get the best of your after sales experience.

If something does go wrong with your new boat, do not panic. Of course, with anything new there can be problems that come to fruition after the first few days/months after purchase, we have a system in place to deal with your enquiry. After filling out one of our in-house warranty request forms and sending it back in to our Northwich office we will the do the rest. In no circumstance do you need to bring your boat back to us, we will send a man with a van out to you to address the warranty on average within 1 week approximately, depending on the time year. Narrowboats Ltd recommend RCR break down cover when insuring your vessel to prevent you from being stranded on the canal at any point, for a quicker and direct response.

We believe at Narrowboats Ltd Wincham Boat Sales that it’s what you’re willing to compromise with rather than what you are not willing to compromise with that helps you narrow down your initial search for a boat. Once you have found the size, layout, style and of course budget to suit you we suggest you get out there on the inland waterways and view as many canal boats as possible.

Although there is not a set scale or percentage to depreciation it all varies on the maintenance, the time of year you intend to sell, the market in general and popularity of your style of boat at the time etc. We have of course seen a lot of boats that fit the liveaboard market appreciate in value rather than depreciate.

Everything in our industry is opinion based, see example, our General Manager Liam Furby is in favour of hydraulic wheel steering as opposed to the traditional tiller steering where as another colleague of ours Scott Vickers is more used to and prefers the tiller style, A simple test cruise will help solve this debate for yourself/yourselves but in true fashion only time on the waterways will help form your own opinions. In the meantime, its best to ask for as many as possible to find what best suits you.

Yes. A valuation is strongly recommended, this way we can talk you through the several different brokerage packages available to our vendors and it is also an opportunity for us to show you what we can offer to you as your broker.

We average selling over 100 canal boats, widebeam vessels, narrowboats and vessels every year. We pride ourselves in giving exceptional customer service, which is easy when you are passionate about what you do, we boast the highest amount of customer feedback and testimonials online, please see our testimonials page for further information.

Yes of course! We only ever do accompanied viewings, searching for a boat is hard enough without trying to figure out the industry on your own, we simplify this with a firm company policy of sitting you down before hand to help find exactly what you are looking for and then taking you down to the boat rather than just giving you the keys.

Depending on what brokerage package you choose to go for, you then have an allocated number of days free of charge storage which of course our aim is to sell your boat in. The reason we do charge a storage rate is to safeguard us from people using our facilities for the benefit of free moorings. On average it takes approximately 60 days for a boat to sell on brokerage, however depending on the market, the price and the presentation there can be sometimes a longer or shorter sale time.

Yes. Upon your boat arriving here at Wincham Wharf, you yourself will designated with a Narrowboats Ltd representative who will be giving you constant feedback from the viewings carried out by all the staff at the Wharf, as well as areas we could possibly improve on in presentation, marketing or general observations. Your representative is appointed to you to help in any way they can so if you have any queries do not hesitate in asking them.