Shobnall Marina

At Jannel Cruisers, you can satisfy all your boating needs - from an excellent fleet of holiday hire narrowboats to every facility needed by a boat owner. Jannel Cruisers of Burton upon Trent is a well-established family owned and operated firm where we pride ourselves in offering a quality service. An excellent fleet of narrowboats is available for holiday hire and gas, pumpout facilities, a shop and chandlery provides almost everything required by passing boaters. We offer a full engineering and breakdown service and our covered dry dock is a gem. The personal service each and every one of our customers receives means that many of our clients return year after year and have continued to do so during our 27 years in business

Holidays
Jannel Cruisers, based at Shobnall Marina on the Trent and Mersey Canal, is where you begin your voyage of discovery - a new holiday experience on the inland waterways. The Jannel fleet of narrowboats can accomodate most types of party, from couples to large families or two families sharing. You will find that cruising on your own, well appointed, narowboat is a way to go back in time but still retain the modern necessities of our lives today. If you have already discovered the joys of canal cruising, you will find that Shobnall Marina is ideally situated to offer a wide variety of cruising routes, from one week return cruises to two week ring cruises including, for more experienced boaters with prior permission from the company, routes using the tidal River Trent to Lincoln.

Dry Dock & Facilities
Friendly, reliable and efficient service is always available at Shobnall Marina where rain never stops play with Jannel's exceptionally fine covered dry dock which allows full access around and under your boat.

Chandlery
Our new and expanded chandlery is housed in an attractive brick period-styled canalside building with elegantly arched windows and doors, slate-type roof tiles, and a clock tower topped with a brass 'narrowboat' weathervane. Inside the chandlery, you will find a wide selection of mechanical, electrical and engine spares, marine hardware (boat shafts, mooring pins, hammers, windlasses etc), chimneys, a full range of Blakes and International paints, a good choice of rope, and general hardware - virtually everything required by the narrowboat owner. We are also distributors and stockists of Phil Speight's Craftmaster paints.

Jannel are accredited suppliers and installers of 'Adverc' battery management systems and official stockists of Kabola oil stoves and Aarrow multi-fuel stoves. We also stock competitively priced brass portholes, mushroom vents and ancillary brassware which have been sourced direct from a UK manufacturing brass foundry, a wide selection of fenders made for Jannel Cruisers and a full range of Hep2O plumbing fittings. Items like cookers, heaters and refrigerators are available to order and, of course, Jannel will continue to issue British Waterways' licences and stock a wide range of maps, guides, videos, traditional giftware and canal paintings by a local artist produced exclusively for Jannel.

The new chandlery complements the already existing 60-boat mooring basin, slipway, covered dry dock facility (now with heating for improved winter working), engineering workshop, and dedicated woodworking shop.

With the recently completed nearby visitor moorings on the Trent & Mersey, stopping at Jannel Cruisers at Burton upon Trent is now a 'must' - a boon to boaters, both locally based or visitors just passing through.

We offer:

• Canal boat holidays
• Boat sales
• Boat hire
• Moorings

Services for you

• Toilets
• Water points
• Electric charging point
• Elsan disposal

Services for your boat

• Boat service & repairs
• Chandlery
• Diesel
• Bottled gas
• Pump out
• Slipway
• Cranage
• Dry dock
• Wet dock

Moorings

• Short term