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Refit of Diesel & Dust

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4-5 September

WE HAVE SET UP A NEW BLOG TO KEEP UP TO DATE THIS YEAR. CLICK HERE. The old blog will be updated to fill in the gap as time permits !   Following Hannah and Craig's wedding we could really get to work and finish ripping out bathroom and bedroom - no need to keep shower in any more! Starting to strip out bedroom - no going back now!   Before   After   All that remains of the bathroom is some plumbing   Looking towards kitchen showing the pile of wood growing and our only toil
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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Our first Holiday on our own boat

We could hardly contain our excitement when we arrived at Whilton on Friday 27th August to pick up the keys for the last time for what was now our own boat. The plan was to settle in on the boat and move everything aboard we might need for the trip and set off on Saturday lunch time. We also had one of our cats Mars with us as he was recovering from a broken leg and needed to be kept in a confined space for another 2 weeks.   We reconnected the water pipes at the front and proceeded to carefu
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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Purchase of Diesel & Dust

One final worry was when we arranged to go to Whilton on 17th August to make payment and have a look at what would now be our very own boat. We had a phone call from them just as we were about to leave Somerset to say not to come up as there was some problem with finance. It turned out the previous owners had not paid off the balance of finance and as our offer was less than outstanding finance the finance company couldn't release the boat until it was all sorted out but not to worry it should a
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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Moving Boat and Survey

Next was arranging survey but as the boat was at Wigrams Turn Marina and had to be moved to Whilton Marina we asked if we could come for the trip. This gave us a lovely day out on 7th August moving the boat as well as a chance to see how she handled and make sure the engine ran ok and there were no major problems. Some photos of the trip can be seen below:   Leaving Wigrams Turn Marina   Braunston crawl!   Working through Braunston Locks   We somehow got to the top of Braunston Locks (
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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Making offer for Diesel & Dust

After much discussion and asking for advice on here we decided to ignore all your advice and go with our hearts and made a stupidly low offer in July. Needless to say this was refused and the seller said he was insulted by our offer! We then wrote a long email detailing all the faults we found and asked them to let us know if they changed there mind. Some of the faults can be seen in the pics below:   Poor standard of workmanship with doors that didn't open; tiles falling off the walls; messy
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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First Viewing of Diesel & Dust

This is going to be a blog on the purchase and refit of narrowboat Diesel & Dust that we bought from Whilton in August. I'll be making a few entries initially to bring the story up to date then hopefully keep this up to date as work progresses.   To start off with here are some photos from the sales brochure that made us curious enough to view Diesel & Dust.     We wanted to know more about this boat and particularly what was going on with the gates in the boatmans cabin!
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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