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! Went to view during our holiday at end of June and surprisingly both really liked it and felt Diesel & Dust deserved someone to look after her and bring her back to her former glory. Our holiday ended in North Wales (we like to travel around a lot!) but decided to go for a second viewing (at Wigrams Turn Marina in Warwickshire) on our way home to Somerset!

We thought a second look would make us see sense and realise it was not a practical project but instead we both fell in love with the boat but didn't think we could ever afford it at that time.

More about the purchase coming soon.....

Tom & Becky