Tudor & Laura
Barratt-Scanes

Owners & Managers

We moved to Mount Dora in 2011 from England, having purchased Premier Boat Tours. Premier Boat Tours offers narrated sightseeing tours of the Harris Chain of Lakes, including the Dora Canal to tourists and locals 363 days a year. It has grown since 2011 and now takes more than 15,000 people a year on its tours. We wanted to use our knowledge and expertise of the Dora Canal to expand and offer educational Boat Tours to children. Everyone should have the opportunity to see the splendor of the Dora Canal.

We both have an extensive background in tourism and boating. We met in the British Virgin Islands in 1999, where we were both working in the boating industry as a water sports manager and dive instructor. Our interests and work in tourism and boating have taken us around the world to South Africa, the Caribbean Islands, England and Australia. We have now made Mount Dora our permanent home.