Interesting boat

[Carl Ryan]

Interesting boat but I do not know what it is. It looked full length.

 

 

It has rounded chines and is riveted along the chines.

 

 

[alan_fincher]

Pretty certain this was the subject of a thread on here a few years back, but I think it had a top on then.

 

Trying to remember details - was it somewhere like the Soar?

 

EDITED TO ADD:

 

The way it has been given such a short swim at the back will make it handle like a pig on roller skates!

Edited January 3, 2013 by alan_fincher

[stagedamager]

Yeah if its the one I think it is it was at Mountsorrel and on ebay for about 6 and a half grand. Interest was resurrected in her in the past couple of months on here but I cant remember why. The question is who built her and what the history is?

Dan

[BargeeSpud]

Divino.

[Richard T]

This boat was moored in a short arm off the Soar at Mountsorrel and was used as a liveaboard. It had a wooden top on it. It was then taken to Old Junction Boat Yard and the top taken of and the interior stripped. So far no one has identified a possible builder - looking at the shape of the stern I would suggest that the swim was a later addition and that originally the boat was horse drawn effectively a form of butty. Construction appears, from the photographs, to be a combination of rivetted and welded. Apart from middle Northwich boats are there any other full length boats with rounded bilges? Where is the boat now?

It probably has never had a BW number as the arm would have been considered to be 'off line' - when moved to Old Junction it was probably done without a licence.

[Timleech]

This boat was moored in a short arm off the Soar at Mountsorrel and was used as a liveaboard. It had a wooden top on it. It was then taken to Old Junction Boat Yard and the top taken of and the interior stripped. So far no one has identified a possible builder - looking at the shape of the stern I would suggest that the swim was a later addition and that originally the boat was horse drawn effectively a form of butty. Construction appears, from the photographs, to be a combination of rivetted and welded. Apart from middle Northwich boats are there any other full length boats with rounded bilges? Where is the boat now?

It probably has never had a BW number as the arm would have been considered to be 'off line' - when moved to Old Junction it was probably done without a licence.

 

Royalty class steel GU boats, also some Cowburn & Cowpar motor boats.

 

It's clearly none of the above, though. There may well have been others.

 

Tim

Edited January 5, 2013 by Timleech

[Speedwheel]

Any pictures of the bow? It looks like an interesting boat.

[Carl Ryan]

The pictures were taken at the mill yard of the arm at Maesbury on the Montgomery canal last weekend.

 

Carl

[Laurence Hogg]

The rivetting rules out a GUCCCo or ACC boat so its not part of a middle Northwich butty or a Royalty. Looking at the bow it doesnt seem messed with, forget the swim (if you can call it one) but note the rounded chines. My money would be on a Steel Barrel works boat probably originally a mud hopper or similar. I have seen similar some years ago in BW hands. Without question this is the boat that was for a short time on ebay with poor pictures but showed a rounded chine.

 

THIS IS WHAT IT MAY HAVE STARTED LIFE AS:

Edited January 5, 2013 by Laurence Hogg