Clipper

The boat was well maintained, serviced and looked after. Comfortable and warm!

As it was late in the season, the clipper had been well used but clean. A few mechanical issues arose, but were fixed by ream. No working horn concerned captain.

Very good boat for 4 people.

Great boat. Perfect in all the aspects. I’d chose this one for the next trip.

The Clipper is not the youngest boat in the fleet but nor is it the oldest. It is a very well built boat, coming from a well-known boatyard in Norfolk. It is very comfortably furnished and well laid-out. It has a very sociable aft deck, while access on and off is very simple. It’s not high out of the water, unlike some boats, and for access at locks and alongside it is a simple step on and off – very important to consider. It’s also a very solid boat and tracks well in the water. Very easy to steer.

Boat was a clipper, plenty big enough for two couples. Has everything needed in the kitchen apart from, some proper size wine glasses would have been nice and maybe some taller tumblers…… G&T is not good in a three inch glass !
Apart from this, it’s amazing

Lovely quite river with lots of beautiful French towns

Boat was pretty good, places to stop okay, would have liked to have been able to do the flights of locks at Fort Augustus.

Excellent boat with all the amenities that is required. Boat was easy to handle even without side thrusters. It would have been nice if we were told that the boat had a heating system at the start of our voyage.

Solid ship, all working, nothing extraordinary, neither exciting nor disappoining.

Perfect boat for our needs

Older boat but with everything you would need on it. I am an experienced boat owner and was really surprised with the amount of storage aboard which makes a week on board so much easier. The boat was easy to manoeuvre and moor with the lock keepers ready to help. Stunning scenery through both the lochs and the canal. I particularly like Fort Augustus, probably due to the pubs!

We were a couple of 2 individuals, plenty of room, would recommend this boat for up to 4. Equipment excellence, everything clean.

Easy to handle and comfortable. We just missed a suncreen on top of the boat. Apart from the technical issue with the rudder there’s not very much to be unsatisfied about. Oh yes, maybe the fridge: it had rather difficult to cool our food (I suspect that there’s not enough ventilation the way it is built in in the boat. Finally: the frifge is too smaal if you want to have cool drinks for 4 at all times. Lukily we had our own portable fridge.