David6214

I'm guessing it was hardly for regular deployment. The tape was quite firmly on there and it was shackled up. Boat came from the Lancaster and spent a lot of time on the Nene and Middle levels. Maybe it was chucked on the bank. You do see some very creative mooring down there.

Thanks Alan. I'm guessing the Previous owner had it for rivers then. We've got several Danforth types which hopefully we don't need, but this just looked interesting.

Info from Trackman on another thread. I found this info from Trackman on another thread we have a Les Wilson boat of the type he describes as "tug style". We bought it 8 years ago last month after viewing the boat he and his wife Berni were living on. The boats like ours are fitted out by Les himself and I can't really fault ours for the price we paid. Les is the son of a working boatman and lives aboard and regularly boats in one of his own boats. He uses the one he's on as a demo boat and tends to sell them on and move onto a new one every few years. He knows what works and doesn't do what doesn't work. He seems normally only to build one tug style boat per year these days, the rest are mostly sailaways that are bought and fitted out by others. These boats have a shell which appears much like ours and so I imagine they are just as good. He fits Beta 38 engines in them whereas the tugs have a heftier Beta JD3 Tug engine. I rate Beta engines highly, our JD3 has been great. The 38 will be less powerful but adequate for a 57' boat, and I'd expect the same quality from Beta as with our engine. I can't comment on the fit out of "your" boat as I don't know who did it. Les will probably know, and he's very helpful, though calls a spade a spade! He's based on a farm near Brinklow on the Coventry, north of Rose Narrowboats, if you know where they are. Look on Les' website and give him a call. He seems to keep tabs on where his boats get to. There was a thread on Fantime which was at Rugby Boats a while back. I've compiled a bit of a list just by way of a record. We had acquired one and I just wanted to know a bit more about them.

Ours are held in with velcro tape (It was what I had at the time and its just kind of stayed). I tend to fit them around now and take them out in spring. We have a wooden screen that goes over. We have Ethafoam bungs for the summer but more for the light than anything.

This anchor came with the boat. Got various attachment points and a comparatively complicated folding arrangement. I'm kind of thinking it's some sort of retrieval system? This very specific bit of rope came with. Any clues?

I think it also depends how long you have it on for and what other heat sources there are. Ours throttles back comparatively quickly, but at the moment with the fire on it's largely used for back ground heating and heating the water.

We have an eberspacher. Ours dpesnt use anywhere near a litre an hour. Once it has the radiators to temperature (via sensing the water return temp as far as I am aware) it throttles back. Our controller is the simple one. We had a refleks before an liked it a lot. Weve had webasto and bubble diesel heaters in the past and I dont think any of them used that much. Ill check, but the quoted figures are something like 0.25 to 0.33 per hour when running properly.

@Davo_WillowDid you manage to find out much more about them? I'm having a trawl round to see what info I can find. I have a fairly good list of the ones I could find but no other real info. I would PM you, but I havent made enough posts yet.

Thank you @Jen-in-Wellies, been a member a long time but dont really post.

Digging up a very old thread. Have you still got it Davo?