About C & G Narrowboats

C & G Narrowboats was established in 1999 by Gary Wallbank and his wife, Carolyn, as a manufacturer of steel-hulled narrowboats. In early 2001 C & G's first narrowboat was completed. The boat featured in April 2002's Canal & Riverboat magazine - as boat of the month. Gary and Carolyn became somewhat attached to this vessel and decided to keep it, naming her Yardley (from the area in Birmingham in which they live).

Some half a dozen or so narrowboats later, it was becoming increasingly apparent to C & G that there was a lot of demand in the Midlands for refits, rewires and repairs of existing narrowboats; more and more time was being taken by the demand for such work. Hence their gradual move away from the manufacture of narrowboats to their new occupation as narrowboat fitters.