I Spy NB Innisfree

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Spotted on the Snaygill Boats web site.....

 

I think I'm correct from previous posts and descriptions....

 

Edited July 3, 2014 by The Dog House

[Geordie.narrowboat]

Excuse my ignorance, why the little wheels at the bow next to the canopy?

Edited July 3, 2014 by Geordie.narrowboat

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Geordie.narrowboat, on 03 Jul 2014 - 3:08 PM, said:

 

Excuse my ignorance, why the little wheels at the bow next to the canopy?

I'll leave him to confirm if he sees this thread but ISTR they were to keep the front cabin edges off tunnel walls. No idea if they worked or not.

 

It's actually quite an interesting boat, no tiller for example.

Edited July 3, 2014 by The Dog House

[nb Innisfree]

 

I'll leave him to confirm if he sees this thread but ISTR they were to keep the front cabin edges off tunnel walls. No idea if they worked or not.

 

It's actually quite an interesting boat, no tiller for example.

Yes that's us in summer 2011, we missed you cruising past while we were dry docked.

 

I fitted the wheels the year before, but our liveaboard ccing was forcibly curtailed before we could test them. However last year we cruised from Snaygill to Devizes and can report the wheels were successfull in protecting the cratch cover in tunnels with a profile that touched the cabin top before the gunwales.

 

Would have liked to try them going upstream in Chirk tunnel, instead of crabbing with bow rubbing along the towpath on the s/board side and stern into the port wall we could just run the wheel along the port wall and crab that way. I got the idea from a boat that cruises there regularly, he had just one wheel on the port side specifically for the Chirk tunnel.

Edited July 3, 2014 by nb Innisfree