How much will it cost?

This depends on how much work we do and the level of fit-out you ask for. BUT once you have decided and we have agreed a final price, there are no hidden extras.

Everything you ask for will be listed in the overall specification for your barge.
Should you decide on something extra once we have started building, we will
cost and charge it separately.

For a 19.5m barge with 3.8m beam, machinery and hull built to the following specification:

Shot blasted and primed in epoxy, ex works. Completed hull and superstructure with two 500Ldiesel fuel tanks and two 750L stainless steel water tanks. Rudder with stainless-steel shaft with three bearings. Emergency tiller. Perkins 6 cylinder main engine fitted with indirect heating and water cooling. Single lever control.. Exhaust and water trap fitted. Aqua-drive (anti-vibration coupling for the propeller shaft), PRM gearbox with 2.5:1 reduction ratio and bronze propeller. Vetus electric bow-thruster with joystick control.
Northern lights 1500rpm, 4.8kVA generator installed ready for use. Vetus hydraulic steering. 600AH of batteries for domestic use, 24V engine and bow thruster batteries. All wiring completed in the engine-room and wheelhouse ready for connection to the rest of the vessel. D.C. and a.c. electrical panels, and distribution boxes fitted, Battery isolation switches and master fuses in engine room. Hull isolation transformer. Shore power socket. 3kVA inverter/charger fitted. 240V fresh water pump fitted and connected to water tanks.

Price £122,000 ex VAT

Internal fit-out:

With such a wide variety of possibilities available for the internal accommodation, materials used, and the nature of the appliances required, we would need to discuss with you in order to produce a specification and then the final cost. For budget purposes we can advise you that this cost will probably be in the range of £60,000 to £80,000

A note on VAT: At present it is possible to re-claim a large part of the VAT paid or to obtain an exemption certificate for the build and not pay VAT in the first place.

The full specification is too big to put on this web-site but can be supplied