alan_fincher

I feel sure they would be well aware of the damage. However it has long beem my gripe at Hillmorton that all the vollies congregate at the bottom lock They could usefully manage levels in the two intermediate pounds, and top up as required, but I have yet to see them ever do so, prefering instead to let deep draughted boats bounce along the bottom.

We went throigh about 3 days ago I think it is difficult to see how the damage could have been caused by a boat.

From memory Archie57, sometimes of this forum, had some made for Paddington but I'm afraid I don't know the details.

We passed them yesterday - they looked very well presented. I must admit I had no idea that Hyades still had its wooden bottoms.

That's a strange one! There must be something else seriously wrong with it. (The other thing wrong with it, to my mind, being that it is a Hudson! 😄 )

Well I've learnt something new! It must have been chaos in the transition period between same sized posts and those with different sizes. I only ever had the latter, my first car being from the early 60s.

As battery terninal posts, (and hence the correct clamp) are different sizes that was quite an achievement.

If it is a genuine butty highly unlikely I would have thought. Even the most spread ex BCN day boats seldom grom much above 7' 3". The boat you mention does not appear to be listed by Norton Canes, though.

When I worked on computer systems for oil distribution terminals we were told that some garages specified "only first morning delivery", so the fuel was metered and loaded on to the road tanker at the minimum possible temperature. After delivery it expanded in the garage's forecourt tanks, meaning they now had more fuel than they had paid for. The garages would actually refuse a deliery that turned up later in the day.

I'm always curious about this one, but am unsure of its full history I think it was shortened to around 40feet in (possibly) the 1950s for conversion to a BW hire cruiser. So how much of the original Hare is the current Hare?

Good answers from both Ex Brummie and Arthur. Opening both gates (or the second one at least partially) minimises damage to the sealing edge of the gate you would otherwise have left closed. I suspect though that many are confident they can squeeze though just one gate withot touching the other. Easier if you are just 6' 10" wide than it is with our "Historic" at more like 7' 1" and nearly 72 ft long.

If that were true those of us that have boats with a static draught of around 3 feet, and a moving draught more like 3 feet 6 ins would spend most of our time going nowhere!

At last! I've looked several times, but wasn't sure where it was going to pop up. Linky

I've really no idea. I must admit I'm quite curious about Lacerta, as it is a not totally dissimilar boat to Sickle, (albeit 5' longer - not sure if that is a "plus" or a "minus"). Unlike many that have been butchered in some manner since ending their working lives, both Lacerta and Sickle were only shortened as part of their genuine working history, which make them more authentic and interesting, (to my mind at least)

Curiously it looks like 3 of the 4 "historics" listed on that page have no price mentioned. Despite the asking prices for some of them being freely available elsewhere. I can't imagine why.