Want to sell your boat?
With our simple fixed Brokerage fees and the option for us to even move your boat for you, Its a smooth sailing process for you to sell your boat.
View our Fixed fees below and get in touch today for a valuation!
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Join us every Saturday throughout the summer and bank holiday weekends for an afternoon of live music from local musicians by the water!
View our lineup for the summer here! ⬇️
SATURDAY SOUNDS BY THE WATERFRONT LINEUP
Enjoy great tunes, soak up the sun, and make unforgettable memories in a vibrant, family-friendly atmosphere.
✨ Hospitality at its best! Our licensed bar is open until late, serving beers, wines, cocktails, and soft drinks, along with delicious food.
Want the best spot? Bring a chair or picnic blanket and settle in!
⛺ If you want to make a night of it, why not stay on-site? Campers, glampers, and caravans welcome! Well-behaved dogs too!
Use eco-friendly alternatives in the galley and bathroom. Avoid products containing chlorine, bleach and phosphates – they can be harmful to aquatic life.
Ensure your engine is maintained and serviced regularly to avoid unwanted leaks. Extract oil from your bilge before pumping out – install an inline bilge filter or tray.
Secure loose items such as bottles and cans to prevent them falling or blowing overboard.
Choose your site carefully, try to avoid areas where animals and birds may be resting, feeding, breeding or with young. Use designated tow-path bollards and rings.
Good use of the throttle and keeping a safe, reasonable distance from the banks will help to avoid unnecessary movement of water that can erode banks and disturb wildlife.
Aquatic invasive plant and animal species can cause damage to your boat and equipment, restrict navigation along waterways and harm our local environment. To help ensure we do not introduce or spread them around our UK waters, follow these steps:
Keep ropes, fenders and other equipment out of the water where possible to prevent invasive species attaching to them.
Check for any visible biofouling on your boat and equipment before leaving a mooring, remove and dispose of in a bin.
Clean your boat, bilge and equipment etc. as often as you can with fresh water to remove biofouling.
Dry all boating equipment and clothing for as long as possible. Species can survive several weeks in damp conditions.
For more helpful information on what you can do to contribute to the waterways visit: www.thegreenblue.org.uk
Buying or selling a boat? We can help!As we settle in to a second summer affected by COVID-19 restrictions, Robert Parton, MD of Aqueduct Marina, has been reviewing the pattern of our brokerage boat sales across the years. He took a specific look at our brokerage pipeline after the post-lockdown rush of May completions.
While the run rate is currently stable, looking forward it would appear our normal numbers of boats are now selling across the Brokerage. It is apparent that standard 58ft or less narrowboats are proving popular and are going under offer very quickly.
We are also seeing that these boats are also going from ‘offer accepted’ to ‘completion’ in less time, though thankfully nearly all boats are still having full surveys. This highlights that these buyers are very keen to be on the water this season. The side effect of this results in very few boats showing for sale at any one time on our website, giving the impression there are not many boats are available, which isn’t the case at all.
Many materials have experienced a steep pricing increase including steel, wood, and equipment. This will have a direct impact on new boat prices. We believe this will decrease the interest for new boat builds but will drive up or at least maintain the increased second-hand boat prices.
We are now back running at our standard number of boats selling a month. If we are able to carry on at this rate for the rest of this financial year it will mean, we sell around 20% less boats this year (which reflects the locked down period).
It is possible that we may make up the lost COVID months (Dec-March) with an Autumn surge, as boat owners take advantage of the higher prices, meaning we achieve nearer to our normal total number of boats sold through the brokerage. At this current time of writing, we have 3 boats for sale with many more ready to land on brokerage once the final papers have been signed.
With that being said, if you have made the decision to make this summer your last hurrah and are looking to hang up your windlass and sell in the autumn / winter, please get in touch. We know that making the decision to sell your boat has probably not been an easy one. Therefore, we will treat this decision with the utmost respect and give your boat the smooth sale it deserves.
Once we have discussed your initial requirements, we will arrange a free valuation of your boat. Our popular brokerage is never short of boat viewings, which means that your boat has the best chance of being sold here. Many of the boats that have come to us have been sold before they even make it onto the market!
Aqueduct Marina Newsletter – Summer 2021We are delighted to be able to publish our Summer 2021 newsletter.
A lot has happened since our last newsletter, we hope you are all well and keeping safe through these strange times we have been living in for the last 18 months.
There are lots of exciting things happening at Aqueduct Marina and plenty of plans in the pipeline, so keep your eyes peeled!
Click on the document below to view your copy of the Summer 2021 Newsletter.
COVID-19 Update 12/03/21
• Can visit your boat as normal from the 29th March but (No holidays)
• From 12th April you can stay overnight (a group of 6 or two households).
• May 17th, international travel (subject to review).
• June 21st the new normal.
Has been open right through. We ask you to continue to keep physical visits and approaches to all staff to an absolute minimum and continue to wear a mask.
Once all our staff have been vaccinated, we will be happy to return to a more normal pre-COVID-19 approach.
The latest government advice is that toilets and associated equipment can remain open. Our showers will remain open. Our showers are non-communal and a contained space. This will be a facility for users to change, shower, dry and redress.
• The laundry will also remain available, we ask that you do not stay in the laundry area while your laundry is in the machines, and to wipe down all contact points before and after use.
• Please wear a mask at all times in the washrooms, laundry and linked corridor.
• We will re-open providing a takeaway service only 22nd March.
• From 12th April 6 people can sit outside only.
• From 17th May 6 people can sit indoors. Max 30 outside.
• This has continued operating throughout the lockdowns.
• To avoid mixing and contact we will continue to ask owners to not be present on their boat while an engineer is working on board.
• To contact our staff, please do not enter the operations office, but telephone or email reception@aqueductmarina.co.uk
• This will continue as a call and collect service until 15th March So please call ahead as the door will be locked.
• From the 15th of March the chandlery will be staffed 7 days a week, in preparation for customers returning to the marina from the 29th of March, please continue to wear a mask when entering, with no more than 3 customers at a time in the chandlery.
• Now until 12th April, Virtual viewings only, (exception if buying a boat to be your primary residence). We can value and list boats for sale. We can collect boats for sale at Aqueduct Marina under trade conditions. We can sell boats without in-person physical visits, using video viewings.
• After 12th April, we can carry out viewings in person. We intend to continue viewings by appointment only and retain a COVID-19 secure process, such as using the electronic signing of contracts and contactless payments.
• We are accepting bookings from 12th April.
We can’t wait to welcome you all back to the marina!
COVID 19 Update 22/02/21 Covid-19 Update 05/01/2021 Covid-19 Update 04/01/2021 CHRISTMAS OPENING HOURSThis year our Christmas opening times will be slightly different from previous years due to reduced staffing as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic but rest assured our staff will still be here to answer questions and help during the festive period.
• Wednesday 23rd December – 8am till 5pm (Last day of normal opening hours / Cafe closed until New Year)
• Thursday 24th December – 8am till 12 noon (Christmas Eve)
• Friday 25th December – Closed (Christmas Day)
• Saturday 26th December – Closed
• Sunday 27th December – Closed
• Monday 28th December – 10am till 4pm
• Tuesday 29th December – 10am till 4pm
• Wednesday 30th December – 10am till 4pm
• Thursday 31st December – Closed (New Years Eve)
• Friday 1st January – Closed (New Years Day)
• Saturday 2nd January – 8am till 5pm (Normal opening hours resume / Cafe open again)
When lockdown ends Aqueduct Marina is charted to enter “Tier 2” as per the governments published list for England.
The rules are currently as found here:
In summary, this all means that you’ll be able to visit your boat and almost all of our site will be operating just as it was prior to lockdown; this is only with the exception of the café which will be offering take away hot & cold drinks.
Don’t forget that you may be in a different tier or area and should check the details published by the Governments here before you travel:
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Aqueduct Marina November Newsletter
Covid, awards and new toys… its been a strange but busy few months at the marina. Inside this issue we look at what has happened over the past few months as well as looking ahead to what 2021 has in store. Click the link below to view your copy.
COVID-19 UPDATE – 05/11/2020
Were glad to announce that the marina will be continuing to operate and all of our general services will be available to meet you’re boating needs whilst your away; to help everyone understand how we can do this, here is a guide to accessing our services from the 5th of November until 2nd of December.
Reception
Our reception will continue to be manned 7 days a week during normal office hours, although the doors will be closed and access will not be possible in person. All of your enquiries will be taken at our reception as normal by phoning 01270 525 040 or e-mailing info@aqueductmarina.co.uk
Engineering
All our workshops will be continuing to work through our pre-booked workload and new requests.
This includes: servicing, winterising, fabrication, blacking, painting and any other general work. We will contact you directly with updates regarding existing work and you can contact reception as normal to request new work. Due to the lockdown all new work enquiries will be responded to in the first instance by phone and thereafter handled at distance with the aid of reports, pictures and videos as work progresses to completion.
Brokerage
Our brokerage will continue to be available through many mediums; we will be advertising online, speaking by phone and using online chat facilities to keep in touch with both buyers and sellers.
But unfortunately, we do not expect boat viewings to be allowed in person; to make up for this we’ll be filming individual videos, taking personal pictures and taking bookings for post lockdown visits.
For more info contact reception and speak with our brokerage team.
Chandlery
Will remain open throughout lockdown to supply our workshops with parts and to provide essential items for those who require them; this include diesel, coal and pump-out services in addition to items which can be purchased via a call and collect system.
Moorings & Storage
Although you will not be able to visit your boat in person for none-essential activities; access can be made available should you have an essential need to do so. You will need to inform us prior to visiting the site.
Electric Meters
As you are unable to visit, we would like to offer you the opportunity to register for a free meter checking service. Once registered we will start checking periodically from 9th of November until further notice; to be added to the checklist please contact reception. Charges for the electrical credit will then be charged to your account and payment requested by invoice.
Toilets, Showers & Laundry
Will remain open throughout lockdown and will continue to be cleaned on a daily basis. Access to washing machine tokens for those who require them will be available using a call and collect service.
As ever we will be monitoring the latest Government announcements and advice from trade organisations bodies such as British Marina so that we can update you with the most accurate information.
Thank you for your support and understanding during these challenging times; we will look forward to seeing you again here soon and in the meantime please feel free to contact our office.
All the best,
The Aqueduct Team
2020 Boating Event – UpdateWe have waited as long as possible to see what may happen, but due to the restriction being placed on large social gathering and the continued concerns around Covid-19 we will unfortunately not be able to go ahead…
But don’t worry!
We will be continuing with our Boating Event later in the year and we will update everyone as soon as we can set the day. The new Boating Event will include both physical displays here at the marina and online virtual ones too…
If you would like to speak with our event organiser in the meantime, please e-mail:
nick.beech@aqueductmarina.co.uk
Thank you for your support during this difficult time.
All the best from,
The Aqueduct Team
The Marina is open:
Mon - Sat: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Cafe is open:
Mon - Fri: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Sat - Sun: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
The Chandlery is open:
Mon - Sat: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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