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The Experience Winsome is our new 17 foot, pedal powered launch. This unique boat offers a fun, relaxing and eco-friendly way to explore rivers, canals, city docklands and estuaries. The crew sit opposite one another with their hands free so they can chat, sip their champagne (or flask of soup in winter), take photographs or simply watch the world glide by. Because of her sleek design, Winsome cruises effortlessly at a leisurely 4mph leaving only minimal wake but she can achieve 6-7mph if her crew are more energetically inclined! Our small, but growing, fleet of Winsomes have now been cruised several hundred miles – exploring the Welsh canals, Thames, Severn, Lake Windermere, and the Norfolk Broads. Boaters and non-boaters alike tell us they find the experience compelling – enjoying either an afternoon’s leisurely pedalling in the sun, a short evening trip to the local pub or a longer cruise staying overnight in a riverside B&B.
Performance The boat is moulded in double-skinned glass fibre for optimum strength, stiffness and weight. The crew sit facing each other and pedal the boat via a central gearbox where patent nylon gears drive a 12” propeller at about 300 rpm. The boat is steered using a finger tip tiller connected to a balanced rudder. She turns happily in a river, reverses well and, with a bit of practice, can execute neat 3 point turns in narrow canals. Winsome’s sleek (17 ft by 3”) hull is flat bottomed for stability and minimal wake and cuts effortlessly through the water with minimal disturbance. A reasonably active crew can easily cover 10 to 20 miles in a day with considerable less effort than walking the same distance. She has substantial buoyancy chambers fore and aft as well as a forward water ballast tank to trim the boat for one-person operation or significantly uneven crew weight. Customers can choose from a range of colours for the hull and canvas seats and a final drive ratio to suit their preferred pedalling rate.; "Winsome Pedal Boat") Everyone wanted a go at the Electric Boat Show in Norfolk
Portability The boat is designed to be stripped quickly and easily of seats, gearbox, pedals, rudder and propeller and she can then be manhandled by two people onto a trailer or side loading roofrack on an estate car. Fully laden, she can be launched down a slipway, shelving beach or over a canal bank with the aid of a fold-up dolly which can be carried inside the boat. ; "Winsome pedalling") The view from the steering position
Press coverage Winsome featured in Watercraft Magazine (Sept/Oct 2005), Canal Boat (November 2006) and Fluvial – a French magazine for Inland Waterways (December 2006). Try Winsome out If you would like to try Winsome out for yourself or learn more about her, then give us a call (Tel. 01874 665401) or email us at:
. We’d be delighted to answer any questions you might have. Over the summer, we will be travelling around the country demonstrating Winsome at various locations or, in some cases, simply exploring new waterways. If you are interested in trying Winsome out, email us and we might be able to accomodate you on our travels. We also hope to be at the IWA Festival at St Ives (August25th/26th) and will be at the Green Boat Show in Norfolk (8th Sept). Download a Winsome brochure You can download our 2-page colour brochure giving further details here Short video clip
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