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I currently have a 54ft boat and my son uses a futon in the saloon when he stays over, I was wondering what it would cost to have my boat extended upto 64ft? I really like the boat as it is so would prefer to adapt this if it's cost effective rather than selling and buying another , has any one any experience of doing this ?

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Why 64? Its a lot of cost and disruption, so why not go for 69 foot, cost just a little moor and the same amount of effort.

 

Or even 70, tiny bit of hassle on the K&A, but "70" has a nice boaty ring to it.

 

..................Dave

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We had the barge extended by 10ft by the time it was all finished not much change out of £30k. Including new water and diesel tanks, bathroom and wheelhouse sides and roof

ETA Roger F did the steel that alone was about £18k

Bear in mind this was 10 years ago

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We had our 45ft stretched to 53ft last year. I did the stripping out & refitting and painting, RW Davis did just the steelwork of the extra 8ft, £5K + Vat

 

Steve

Mine was about the same cost, albeit some years ago, for 10ft extra length. I opted to do the stripping out - meaning you have to lay bare the steelwork for one metre either side of the proposed 'chop'. Doing that myself enabled me to understand how the boat had been fitted out in the first place, so that I had a good idea of how to replicate the fit-out in the extended bit. Worked for me!

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Off the top of my head and taking a guestimate a minimum of £2,000 per foot.

 

Think of the work, stripping out, extending all the electrics, water etc. etc. fitting out and that does not even cover the metal work involved, cutting boat in two dragging apart, lining it all up so you do not get a banana boat, welding and all the others bits I may have missed.

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I currently have a 54ft boat and my son uses a futon in the saloon when he stays over, I was wondering what it would cost to have my boat extended upto 64ft? I really like the boat as it is so would prefer to adapt this if it's cost effective rather than selling and buying another , has any one any experience of doing this ?

A less disruptive alternative could be to have a separate unpowered butty that's another bedroom, maybe bathroom. We met a boat like this on the K&A a couple of years ago. The butty is strapped to the bows but can de de-coupled and towed ir left on your mooring if you don't want it with you. The guy who owned the boat designed it himself, I can't think of its name but they moor the boat at Streethay Wharf.

Just remembered its Alice and Alice Too. A Google will reveal more.

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Don't know where you are but Streethay Wharf near Fradley on the Coventry are specialists in this. You can strip and refit yourself to save money or they'll do the whole job, steel, wood, paint.

Worth a call - or a visit if you're nearby as they'll probably have one on the go.

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A less disruptive alternative could be to have a separate unpowered butty that's another bedroom, maybe bathroom. We met a boat like this on the K&A a couple of years ago. The butty is strapped to the bows but can de de-coupled and towed ir left on your mooring if you don't want it with you. The guy who owned the boat designed it himself, I can't think of its name but they moor the boat at Streethay Wharf.

Just remembered its Alice and Alice Too. A Google will reveal more.

 

This is the one with the butty strapped to the bows made by streethay.

 

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Peter.

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We had ours done last summer. Will be going a post about it in the next couple of weeks. Finally finished the insides and now just need to get a chance to get the pictures of the camera and put them on canalworld.

 

It was stretched 10ft by Kedian Engeneering (http://www.kedianengineering.co.uk/). Martin has an account here so you could search for him.

 

Cost us £5800 in total including getting the boat craned to his yard. Was only up to gunwale level so saved alittle there. But if I remember rightly he said it would be another 1000 for the top half.

 

Best thing we ever did. As I say if you hang on a bit I will be doing a full post of the whole process.

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