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Nimdoorquoi

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  1. To be honest, I am not that sure as the person I bought it off of did not have much history of the boat. He didnt even know that it was a Large Woolwich. During my ownership I wasn't aware of how much information there was on this website with the people using it. It's fantastic now that I know!
  2. Thanks for clarifying @davidg . Would you mind talking me through what the process was so that I can understand it better? Were they using parts from other boats that were in better nick as all of the lower portion has rivets where you would expect them. @stagedamager So they would have chopped the old chine angle off and welded it on to new steel plate? What i don't understand is that I could see the rivets from the chine angle on the inside of the baseplate and sides which doesn't add up to me...
  3. Yea but the original rivetted chine angle is still there as well meaning they "replated" by adding the bottom of another boat or the top of another boat? Im confused...
  4. No there isn't much info on there but thanks for sending through. I solde her in 2019/2020 from memory. However I clearly remember seeing some suspect weld lines (to me anyway!) when she was out of the water that also had the surveyor scratching his head as you will see in one of the photos, the weld appears to be under a rivet which doesnt make sense to me. I distinctly remember a very experienced person at the boatyard saying he recognized the weld from bulls bridge but didn't ask him to elaborate. Just to clarify as well that long hporizontal weld line has noting to do with any overplating work. And you can see a small portion of a similar weld line running vertically. First image on the left hand side inbetween the 4.2mm and 6.8 chalk mark is the rivet in question...
  5. Does anyone have any history pertaining to Cambourne or any recent sightings? I remember someone telling me that in her current format her hull is actually made up of 2/3 different boats welded together at Bull's Bridge a long time ago and always wondered which 2/3 boats they would have been made up from. Cambourne being one of them presumably! I owned and lived on her for 7 years and lost contact with the owners after me who sold her a few years ago now. She was moored in Kingsland Basin for a while but since that sale, she's off onto new pastures unknown to me.
  6. Thanks a million Pete! This is ace, I was promised some copies of shots of her from the guy who converted her but never received them. This is the first time I have properly managed to see her unconverted. I can see why they overplayed the counter even from this photograph :'P
  7. Your story is incredible and many many thanks for posting this. I am really looking forward to finding your site and learning. There is so much to learn and enjoy. I have no historical connection to workboats but every time I see a town, star or royalty boat or pair go past I get emotional. Nothing in my blood that I know of, to me they just represent the good parts of a past that I long for: a slower pace more methodical but thorough, designed to last and with that good type of graft that makes beer taste even better at the end of it. Many many thanks for your comment.
  8. Would anybody happen to have any photographs of Cambourne prior to conversion? It would have had a BW back cabin later on in its working life and I think hailed round the Tring area for some time...
  9. Great pic Dav and Pen! I wonder, does anyone know of any photographs of Cambourne prior to conversion? It would have been privately owned but still carrying with a new BW back cabin.
  10. George, even though I'm *new* I'd love to understand the humour! What worries me slightly is that there is an extraordinary amount of knowledge out there held in the old fashioned way: memory. I get so much useful information from kind, generous and passionate people with treasure chests full of the stuff that it worries me that most of this will not be able to be passed on and the world is at risk of slowly losing it. How can we pass this information into a more modern realm, like a book say?! :'P
  11. How much would a fully laden pair of big woolwichs have weighed?
  12. I bought a boat years ago with my girlfriend at the time. We have since split up and I am now the sole owner. We need to change the bill of sale so that it is only in one name. What is the best way to do this so that it is legitimate? She is happy signing etc but I don't know what paperwork is required.
  13. Zenataomm, thank you very very much for this. I will try this over the weekend. This is the first time I have been given a real detailed explanation. I hope I can get it going as I've had this engine for 5 years and never have done so. I will keep you posted as to how I get on. Cheers!
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