Viking Canal Boats 60 x 10 Widebeam for sale (2016) in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Boat Description

Hydra is in good structural condition and generally good cosmetic standard, reflecting careful past ownership. The vessel has a fair standard of maintenance. A 2025 survey is available and can be reassigned at completion FOC. Hydra has been newly blacked, polished, and a new boat safety certificate issued. With a beam of 10', Hydra is suitable for the Great Ouse systems and easily navigated on all UK Wide Beam waterways. She features a 1 bedroom design with a reverse layout, galley forward of the saloon, and a full canopy for both the aft cockpit and forward hatch. The boat is powered by a Beta Marine diesel engine, which was recently fully serviced by T M Marine Engineering. The Morso stove was converted to diesel supply in  2024 at a cost of circa £4000, giving immediate heat when coming aboard. 

• Stern Type – Cruiser Rounded
• Builder - Viking Canal Boats
• Fit-out - Viking Canal Boats
• Plating Specification - 10/6/5/5
• Insulation – Spray Foam
• Number of Berths - 1 Double
• Number of Cabins - ONE
• Canopies – Cockpit / Pram Cover, Cratch Cover

• Boat Safety Certificate Expiry Date - Newly issued May 2025
• Last Blacking - May 2025
• Last Engine Service - May 2025
• Last Survey – March 2025
• Additional Works - Full topside polishing to exterior

• 10mm base plate / 6mm hull sides / 5mm cabin sides / 5mm roof
• Integral steel water tank – approx. 200 gallons
• Diesel tank – approx. 100 gallons
• “Wrapped” stern with Canvas dodgers
• Stern gas locker accommodates two gas bottles
• 4x 4.5kg magnesium anodes
• Chrome mushroom vents, plank and pole rack, tiller bar
• Steel rear doors with sliding hatch
• Steel double glazed front doors
• 3’ double glazed side hatch doors
• 18mm water resistant plywood base flooring
• “Styrodur” underfloor insulation throughout
• Interior fully battened and spray foam insulated
• Hull sides lined in “A” grade oak veneered plywood
• All wooden bulkheads and furniture
• All hardwood trims

• Hull with base plate sandblasted and primed using a two-pack epoxy system
• Bottom finished in a two-pack epoxy undercoat
• Hull above waterline finished in black polyurethane with anti-fading UV filter
• Slip-resistant finish surface on all decks, roof, and gunwales
• Bollards, T-stud, fender fittings fore, sides and aft, central mooring ring, pair of fairleads
• Cabin top finished in high-gloss automotive paint

• Beta Marine diesel Engine 4 cylinders keel cooled engine, 45A & 175A alternators
• Flat bottom cooler with self-bleeding system & Dry exhaust
• 3-blade propeller & Gland packing shaft seal
• Flexible coupling
• Analogue diesel tank gauge

• 75 litres twin-coil calorifier with immersion heater
• Vetus pressurized water pump with 19L accumulator tank
• Vetus pump out system with Jabsco Deluxe electric toilet
• 150L waste holding tank
• Diaphragm shower pump
• Waste and water tank analogue gauges
• Automatic bilge pump

• Webasto Heating system with Heat miser control & radiators
• Chrome heated towel rail
• Gas regulator with manual changeover kit for 2 bottles
• A four burner ‘Thetford’ gas stove, grill and oven
• Diesel Fired Converted Morso  stove

• AC Consumer Unit installed and tested according to RCD
• 16A landline socket & hook up mains lead
• Sockets
• Victron MultiPlus Inverter/Charger
• Victron Galvanic Isolator
• Dishwasher
• A ‘Shoreline’ electric refrigerator and freezer
• Washer / Dryer

• 3 x leisure batteries
• Starting battery
• Electric bow thruster, batteries, additional battery charger
• Main distribution panel
• Ceiling spotlights, light switches
• TV sockets, UHF TV/FM aerial with signal booster