The new electric community boat, Electra, has finally opened its online booking system after the lifting of lockdown restrictions was delayed across the country.
Commissioned by the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust, Electra will be based at Campbell Wharf.
It will be manned by Trust volunteers that will run public trips and private charter cruises along the Grand Union Canal, giving residents and visitors a different view of Milton Keynes.
The boat is planned to take its first public cruise on 3rd August.
📯 Ladies and Gentlemen!
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Special Announcement!
Our eagerly anticipated online booking page is
> NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS < *
Click here to be amongst the first official customers and be part of this historic occasion. 😄 https://t.co/Gd5RMnx64N
*Current max limit is 8 persons pic.twitter.com/txqvXg3wVr
Based on a traditional 54’ long steel narrowboat hull, Electra is powered by a single 15kW electric motor (equivalent to 5 electric kettles), with 48 batteries fitted below decks and 24 solar panels on the roof. At 54 feet, Electra is twice as long as a London double-decker bus and is twice as heavy.
Trips are planned to run later this summer up until December 2021. These will offer something for everyone – from short eye-spy family cruises to Friday night bubbles and bites, relaxing days out in nature, mindfulness trips and walkers’ one-way hops.
Eventually, it is hoped that Electra could carry up to 4,000 passengers a year.
To find out more, click here.
