There are many reasons why people find spending time on canals attractive. The solitude and easy pace of life aboard traditional canal boats, a desire to live independently, an alternative more relaxed and flexible lifestyle or maybe just a great way to spend your leisure time-usually with great emphasis on the word leisure!

The beautiful intercoastal waterways of the UK and France are many and varied and whether your preference is for wide beam canal boats or canal narrow boats you will no doubt be influenced by their capacity to accept either.

Broad beam or narrow boat is certainly an issue to be considered; once that decision is taken it's a question of deciding on the specification which is right for you. As award winning designers and builders of the original Peniche we are immensely proud of our ability to provide you with a canal boat built to your desired specification rather than exclusively ours.

Second home, investment, new lifestyle there are many reasons why people love canal boats. For us, it's the way it looks on the water, the difference that discreet change we made to the cabin angle has made, the knowledge that we invested in that boat the skills we have accumulated over the years and the love and care that went into the building of it.

But above all what we really appreciate is... the delight on your face as you sail it away.