The red diesel affair seems to be creating plenty of panic in the boat building world it seems a number of builders now have a new excuse when they throw in the towel!
At the end of the day it not going to go away and those that are blaming Europe for the mess should take a look nearer home and consider who it is that decides on the ridiculous levels of tax the mugs in Mr Blair's wonderland have to pay!
Saturday 9/12/06
Graham wrote -
As both of us might write here I've decided to introduce the writer on each section. We arranged to pick up the boat from Gayton on Saturday. We drove two cars to Calcutt, dropped one off there and then drove, via coffee in Daventry, to Gayton. I think coffee may feature strongly in this blog. Our canal map had suggested 9.5 hours Gayton to Napton and we had to allow a bit more for Calcutt locks and getting into the marina. We were planning on arriving on
Boaters are such dependable people.
You get the steel ordered the drawings are all done and then two days before it is all about to start the customer decides that after all maybe having a boat built is not a good idea after all!
I think I need another holiday or a very big stick.
March 2006.
With the thought that we could loose the boat to the creditors of the Heron Boats Ltd, it did produced a lot determination among the boat owners there on March 10th and we all decided to work together, sharing our telephone numbers so we could all keep in touch. The next three weeks were very hectic and full of different emotions.
March 11th.:- Emailed fourteen boatyards to ask if they could help finish our boat.
March 13th.:- Emails received from some of the boatyards but they
March 2006.
The day the dream fell apart, March 7th, started like any other day, I powered up my computer has usual after breakfast to read what canal news there was on the "Narrowboat World" Internet site and there was nothing special so I moved onto one of their writers columns, Victor.
Well, what I read, I could not believe and thought this can not be right, it must be a mistake. The headline said, "Another boatyard goes under" and reading on it became clear that the writer had heard
November 2005.
A visit to Herons in early November and the superstructure which we had paid for was still not complete but was still being worked on in one of the two steel fabrication workshops. We wanted "Ebinka" to be a boat for all the family, so when they go cruise with us, we need space fore and aft to allow the family to be together. To allow this I asked Heron if it would be possible to make a lightweight canopy to cover the semi trad stern and make it a trad stern for the occasion w
September 2005.
Within a week of placing our build slot cheque, I got a request for the cost of fabricating the steel hull. Now this was a big cheque but checking our contract it said, "the stage payments were payable at the beginning of each stage", so we paid for the work to start on the hull. Now with the boat hull work started, we turned our attention to buying white goods for the boat, doing all this on the Internet and having the items delivered straight to the Heron boatyard.
We n
August 2005.
Pauline and I shortlisted several boat builders in our area, West and South Yorkshire, this was to allow easy access to the yard during the building process.
We made a day out of the visits and took our three grandchildren with us, one of the yards we looked at was Anthony M's but more of that later. One yard my eldest granddaughter liked was the Joshua & Louis yard at Thorne, she liked it so much, she want me to buy a boat there and then.
Later that month, we decided t
Welcome to the new blog section of CWDF, and more specifically to Jon's Blog (I really need to think or a more original name! )
This blog is designed to illustrate the uses for blogs on this site. While primarily designed to portray life on the waterways, I am happy for them to be used for any purpose within the forum rules and guilelines.
I'll update this when I get a few minutes. Anyway, feel free to play around. Let me know if you have any problems!
All the best,
Jon
Despite the predicted heavy snow for the East Midlands, we visited our new (to us) boat on Tuesday last week, with the intention of moving her to the mooring we have paid for further south at Yardley Gobion. I suppose I was hoping for a few hours with temperatures above 25 deg C to melt all the ice and let me move the boat. So we arrived and loaded all our kit onto the boat and tried to start the heating systems. The Eberspacher light up and we soon had nice hot water. The radiator system though
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