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Posted on 10 December 202018 March 2021

Our plans for modifying Chloe/Floydtilla

We visited Black Prince in December 2020 to see the progress on the painting, we had provided a basic colour scheme a while earlier which was based on the current Black Prince design, but with the dark red replace with a lighter blue and the roof a cream colour, hopefully to reflect some of the summer heat.

Floydtilla Logo
The Floydtilla Logo revealed

We also looked at some other boats that Black Prince were working on to get ideas we could use for changes we wanted to make to the internal layout of our boat.

Chloe-Floydtill Original Layout
The original Black Prince Lautrec 4 layout

When we had hired Chloe during the summer, we had found that the kitchen was probably a bit small for our needs especially as many of the normal restaurants and pubs we would have used were closed.

Our idea was to take out the 2nd toilet and extend the kitchen into that space. This would give us a longer galley style kitchen with possible space for a washing machine and more counter space for a microwave and my coffee maker.

We also added 2 x 2 ways 240v sockets to the design that would pop up from the kitchen surfaces when needed.

We also hoped to add a cupboard door at the end of the kitchen units that could be used from the dining table area. This would mean we had access to the space next to the cooker for additional storage.

The bedrooms and remaining toilet/shower room would remain as they were, with the small addition of moving the television into the main bedroom and getting a larger more modern wall mounted TV for the living area.

When we had used the boat in the summer it was noticeable that the leisure batteries where coming to the end of life as bed time was governed by how long they lasted. These were to be replaced with new batteries with an additional leisure battery added.

A new higher capacity inverter was also going to be fitted that provided 3000W. Black Prince recommend  the Photonic Universal 3000W unit which included a built in battery charger and lots of programmable options.

 

Posted on 1 December 202018 March 2021

Logo Design

We wanted to use vinyl cut rather than a painted logo on the boat basically to save cost. Black Prince recommended Brian Jones, who they have been using for many many years for their work.

The process could not have been simpler. On a phone call with Brian, I outlined what we were after,  a simple icon style version of the front view of a Black Prince boat. You can almost always tell a Black Prince or X-Black Prince boat by the bow design.

Above the icon image we wanted the name and below the web site address, very quickly Brian returned with the design we now have.

Floydtilla Logo by Brian Jones

I asked him to also supply a version I could use to create additional images for the web site (see our favicon and home page icon).

As part of the service Brian installed this on the boat at Black Prince along with the name on the bow. The total cost of this excellent service was £325.00 (Please only use this as a guide and remember keep it simple.)

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The blog is about our narrow boat Floydtilla which we purchased in 2021 from Black Prince Narrowboats from their Ex-Hire boat fleet.

Built by Pro-Build in 2007 and fitted out by Black Prince she was first hired out in 2008 as Chloe, now renamed by us as Floydtilla she is 62′ long and only 6’10” wide with a 42hp diesel motor ideal for a life on the UK canals.

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