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i see - i thought perhaps the lack of updates and pictures meant it was finished and i do not know how long it takes - i am trying to learn from a person like you who knows abot historic boats and you seem to be the boss restoration man

is this restoration finished yet

last time i saw mercury was june last year and it was still converted under cloths - so if it now has a hold does this mean it has been deconverted

it is when they feel the need to comment negatively about what other owners do with their boats as it is none of there business - all part of the entitlement that comes with ownership of a historic boat - fear of being 'slaughtered' if @MtB was to buy fenny and convert it says it all, even if 'slaughtered' is metaphorically speaking. you are a historic boat owner as well as a restoration man so will probably be reluctant to accept it - and you have been quite vocal on here about your thoughts of fenny when it first came up for sale = this thread 28 11 2024 "Don't like how the cabin has been done (mostly done to look wooden - but the engine room looks like a metal top?) Cants don't look right"

the vast majority of the 'historic brigade' are neither as important or as knowledgeable as they like to think, and if you own the boat then do what you want with it just like the 'historic brigade' do - and fenny is already half converted anyway

the revised advert was also posted on narrowboat marketplace facebook which is public - so fill your boots https://www.facebook.com/groups/240479444238266/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=805007744452097#

usk was built in 1939 - and was with mole and ben smith from 1946 to at least the end of the fuel oil traffic in 1955 so your late 1930s can not be right

isnt this the off side moorings at stockton below warwick fly - this boat being the Forths newdigate

I dont no much and i am trying to learn but the lack of a buckby can on the roof suggests a boat on day work - so likely to be a tug of some kind

returning to what this thread is all about https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/bantock-70-butty-for-sale/549987

did you get the wooden floor finished, and did the crane come so you could finish the metalwork as well I want to learn about restoration and you seem to know how to do it

rounded chines combined with the slight v bottom will make it bob about more than a square chined flat bottom boat of equivalent length - it has to as water can slip past easier so reducing stability slightly, although some of this can be offset with heavy ballasting on a short boat or loading if full length (and full length are completely stable anyway). i am new to all this and i am learning from @DShK who is the restoration man, @agg221 who claims to be an engineer as well as a restoration man and all the other good people here

it is most probable that the "often repeated statements' regarding middle northwich boats have all come from the same one source, alan faulkner and his book on guccco boats - and people believe what they read

So you now chose to ignore the statement you made "disadvantage for carrying" and change direction as this can only refer to full length carrying boats in the context of middle northwich boats - and so another fact you have chosen to ignore is that the large northwich renton was also converted to a ice breaking tug at the same time so your newest statement "it is beyond coincidence that all four of those selected were Middle Northwich" is incorrect the depth of hull will obviously have a direct affect on calculated maximum capacity but the depth of water was always the limiting factor so big middle or little they all carried about the same - but I am only learning and no almost nothing

'disadvantage for carrying' must be referring to full length boats not those altered for a reason - clearly as a short boat tycho has much less flat side and bottom than the boxy tug2 but this has much less effect on a full length boat and they are certainly no dissadvantages when carrying - in fact they handle better and go better