About us and our boat

We, Brian & Jane, live in Worcestershire and finally retired in 2011 after a combined 74 years(!) working in local government.

Having had a few hire-boat holidays and spent 4 years enjoying the canals on a shared ownership narrowboat, we wanted to spend more of our new-found free time boating. After much research, and touring many marinas and brokers, we decided to commission a brand new narrowboat of our own.

Bonjour is a 60ft semi-trad narrowboat built by Nigel Moore (NSM Narrowboats) in Worcestershire using a Colecraft shell built in Warwickshire - we like to support local business!

Bonjour was launched on 30 May 2011.

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Maiden Voyage: 6 - 16 June 2011

We planned to take Bonjour from the builder's at Dunhampstead on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal to our mooring at Calcutt Marina on the Grand Union by way of Birmingham and the Coventry and Oxford Canals, taking a detour up the Ashby on our way.

However, plans are made to be broken, and we ended up re-emerging from Birmingham to go down the Stratford Canal and thence onto the Grand Union at Kingswood Junction.

Thereafter we experienced the delights of the Hatton and Stockton flights and arrived tired but happy at Calcutt on 16 June.



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