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Badger - Furnessvale's Boat (George ex NB Alton retired)

 

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Well I didn't know that.

 

Badger used our temporary on line mooring last year during the Audlem Transport Festival. And the crew were lovely people too! They passed us recently when cruising through Audlem again.

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Doorman

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Waiting for next weeks' show Alnwick moored at Crick

 

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That looks like a nice hull, are they rivets that I can see?

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That looks like a nice hull, are they rivets that I can see?

As a Hudson owner, you have probably been persuaded into thinking so!........

 

(Sorry, I really do rise to it every time!........)

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Neil TNC Rising Star

Neil TNC

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A few hundred yards further & you could have snapped my boat smile.png

I spotted your avatar smile.png

Br115 / Lk38 T&M Stoke

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Doorman

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As a Hudson owner, you have probably been persuaded into thinking so!........

 

(Sorry, I really do rise to it every time!........)

Lol,

 

No apologies needed Alan. I do it just for you.

 

In fact, I helped a single handed lady through the locks yesterday and in jest before realising her origin, asked whether the rivets on her Hudson boat were real; "I guess so" came the answer. I didn't have the heart to enlighten her as Americans allegedly don't do satire.

 

Fair play to her though, she was in her late fifties, no taller than a Hobbit and cruising the system on her 57 footer.

 

Tuscan's boat ABER 101, how lovely is that.

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Cracking boat but sadly ruined by those false rivets.

 

Here comes the flak...........

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bargemast

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Cracking boat but sadly ruined by those false rivets.

 

Here comes the flak...........

 

Nothing escapes your sharp eyes it seems frusty.gif

 

Peter.

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Doorman

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Nothing escapes your sharp eyes it seems :banghead:

 

Peter.

I do hope that you appreciated the satire in my statement :-)

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I do hope that you appreciated the satire in my statement :-)

 

 

I do hope that you appreciated the satire in my statement :-)

 

Of course I did appreciated the satire, as someone like you would never have made such a remark, and meaning it.

 

And I hope that you appreciated the satire in my statement too wink.png

 

Peter.

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Of course I did appreciated the satire, as someone like you would never have made such a remark, and meaning it.

 

And I hope that you appreciated the satire in my statement too ;)

 

Peter.

Great news! I'd hate to waste my satire on here.

 

 

Great news! I'd hate to waste my satire on here.

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alan_fincher Veteran II

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Well at least a current member's former boat - Sanbach looking lovely at Walsham Gates on the Wey today.

 

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AFAIK the new owner, (who is greedy, as he has a pair of full length ex working boats as well as the lovely Sandbach), doesn't post on CWDF.

 

That is his and his wife's "Southern" boat, I think!

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AFAIK the new owner, (who is greedy, as he has a pair of full length ex working boats as well as the lovely Sandbach), doesn't post on CWDF.

 

That is his and his wife's "Southern" boat, I think!

Almost as beautiful as a 'Black five'!

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comfortably numb

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Almost as beautiful as a 'Black five'!

A Black Five came past us at Baddesley yesterday pulling 4 empty carriages. Presumably on it's way to a starting point for one of those very expensive steam excursions.

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Maffi

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I'm moored next to Maffi's boat. Dunno where he is.

 

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Tried hard to include at least one of the various 'No Mooring' notices, but couldn't manage it. smile.gif

 

Edited to say he did eventually turn up - and Bones, too!

The 'No Mooring' signs were there to stop people mooring on private property. Bones and myself paid to moor there for about three years. Whilst people did moor there wihle we were away it got a bit irksome if we had only been away to get water.

Look who's coming!

 

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Victoria approaching lock 13 at Audlem.

 

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After 'prising' open the lower gates with some aplomb, I asked Mike how he knew that the lock chamber was empty, to which he replied; "I didn't!" tongue.gif

 

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At this point, I would normally assist a single hander through locks 13 and 12, just to get them on their way. But as Mrs Doorman was left stranded on our boat further back in the pound, I couldn't oblige on this occasion.

 

What a splendid boat!

I met a lady today at the tearooms who told me she was born on a narrowboat....Victoria

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Doorman

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I met a lady today at the tearooms who told me she was born on a narrowboat....Victoria

I would love to sit down and share some memories with her.

 

We have an acquaintance oop Norf who was born on narrowboat Pava when his parents used to work the boat. It was 'moored' at the bottom of their garden for years until he had it re-floated then converted as a liveaboard. He has many books with photographs of the boat in its heyday.

 

Like many folk from working boat families, he's a bit of a character.

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We had an interesting conversation with Smiffy's mum about hers and the OH canal people heritage on a recent visit. All Brentford based - I knew he came from a long line of boat people but never realised just how involved it was! Makes my tenuous branch who worked the Keadby & Stainforth look like mere amatuers.................detective.gif

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This fella was too quick at Blisworth Tunnel today to get anything other than a rear view wink.png

 

Keeping Up.......

 

 

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Does my back end look big in this?

 

I was busy concentrating on the tunnel entrance - and getting my iPod set for some appropriate tunnel music (Bat out of Hell, etc)

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