Product Description
When you’re working on-site, either at a canal, river, or marina, you’re often far from any rest facilities. After hours of dredging, piling, or towpath works, teams need a secure space to rest, warm up, and use basic amenities. Our Welfare Boats and Pontoons are built to provide safe, warm, and compliant welfare facilities for crews working on inland waterways.
KEY FEATURES
Welfare-equipped boats and pods
Seating for up to 4 people
Toilets, heaters, handwash, kettle & microwave
Powered and static options
Configurable welfare pontoons
Delivered via Hiab lorry
INFORMATION SHEETS
Whether you need rest space, tool storage, or welfare provisions for offside clearance or remote maintenance, these vessels provide everything required for a long shift or extended operation.
Several of our powered boats feature integrated welfare amenities, including:
Eberspacher heater
chemical cassette toilet
hand wash
microwave
kettle
seating for 3-4 people
For teams working long hours in isolated locations, they provide a vital space to rest, recuperate, and utilise the facilities.
For more extensive needs, our Welfare Pod includes a silent generator, heating, a drying room, and the same onboard amenities, creating a fully self-contained space for up to four people. Anyone familiar with inland waterway works knows how important it is to have a warm, dry refuge nearby.
We also offer a configurable Welfare Pontoon, designed to carry welfare units or plant. With jacklegs for stability and sizes ranging from 2m x 8m to 7m x 8m, it provides a robust, stable platform suited to any team’s welfare requirements.
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The Rothen Group provide a high quality, work boat rental service supplying an array of large and small work boats for narrow beam & wide beam waterways.
“The Rothen Group’s knowledge has ensured that potential issues were highlighted early, meaning projects run smoothly and on programme. They have a large fleet of plant and operators too, which reassures that the work will be completed safely and with due care.”
Martin Dean
JN Bentley
“The Rothen Group have worked with us and supplied marine, piling and fencing plant for many years. The team have excellent working knowledge of the UK canal system.”
Jim Walton
CPC Civils
“The works were completed to a high standard of quality both ahead of programme and in a safe manner. All parties were really pleased with how smooth the construction phase went.”
Andrew Smith
Mott MacDonald Bentley
“Your crew worked seamlessly to deliver both the headwall and gabion basket lifts safely and efficiently. Their approach to safety, teamwork, and communication made a real difference and helped keep everything on track.”
Adam De'Ath
Canal & River Trust
"The professionalism, communication and quality of the works delivered by The Rothen Group has been exceptional! From the project initiation phase to delivering the hard work on the ground they have been an outstanding contractor to work with."
Charles Hughes
Canal & River Trust
