Carefree Cruising is run and staffed by boating enthusiasts who are committed to giving canal lovers exactly what they want from their narrowboats and their narrowboat holidays.

Owning a share in one of our luxurious narrowboats will give you holidays every year for life at a fraction of the cost of hiring. In actual fact, it is near impossible to find hire boats that are equivalent to what we offer, as our boats include a bow thruster, a 240v electricity generator and a washing machine / tumble drier as standard. Not to mention the superb quality hull that attracts admiring looks and comments at every lock!

And when you consider that if you ever decide to hang up your windlass for good, you can sell your share and get a substantial amount of your purchase monies back, this is by far the most sensible and economical way to get afloat!

To ensure that you get the best, we build our own boats, using only the best quality materials. This means that we are able to ensure quality workmanship at every stage of the build – especially important when you consider that we meet each of our owners personally at the beginning and the end of each and every cruise they take. And cutting out the boat builder’s profit means we can sell superb quality boats at value prices our competitors find difficult to match.

We hope that find our site both useful and informative.

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Read all about the advantages of shared ownership and why you should choose one of Carefree Cruising's shared ownership schemes to help you realise your dream of owning your own narrowboat

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