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On 06/11/2020 at 20:27, john6767 said:
Back to this image, does anyone know the boat, it looks a rather nice boat to me.
The index number looks to be 502946, which does not tie into the boat name, but of course it could have been renamed since the last update to the boat listing, and paintwork does not look that old. I guess I am just being very suspicious of these images now !
In 2017 it came to a rally that i organised so I can confirm that at that date it was called Gibson Beans. Mark who was / is the owner did explain the name but I have long since forgotten
Steve
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2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
According to the registration records he only built one boat (is this your boat ?)
Alron Built by David Jones in 1978 - Length : 9.8 metres ( 32 feet 2 inches ) - Beam : 2.1 metres ( 6 feet 11 inches )
Powered by an Inboard Diesel engine with a power of 15 HP. Registered with Environment Authority - Thames Region number F006919 as a Non Hire Annual Private Motor Boat. ( Last updated on Tuesday 19th April 2005 )He definatly built more than one, my brother has one built by him in the early eighties, it was named Baltic when purchased and was 45ft long, now stretched and recabined.
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13 hours ago, dave moore said:
If it’s the same Orianne, it was owned in the 60s by a chap called Bailey...tall, slim, curly hair and with a penchant for bow ties.
He was a member of the Staffs and Worcs Canal Society in those days, I think he towed Grange back from a rally at Redford Bank for Ken Dunham. I was the steerer!
Was it Bailey Manion? who I remember having a boat called Ratty
Steve
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Ladybank is now a nearly new boat having been completey renewed between the engine room bulkhead and the bow by Ian Kemp during 2018/19
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The MCB's are not speced as suitable for DC supply https://www.hager-me.com/products/energy-distribution/protection-devices/mcbs/mcbs-onekonekt-mcn/mcn125/47712.htm
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The spec sheet for the relays is here https://www.willow.co.uk/RG25.pdf
12v DC relay has a coil restance of 85ohms so current is 0.141 amp
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21 hours ago, billh said:
The length of the Ashton from Portland Basin to Ashton Old Wharf was just about navigable in the 1980s, in fact we sometimes ran horse drawn boat trips up there. The Sea Cadets Unit had a couple of small boats on the canal and at one time had one of the Royal Navy's canal fleet destroyers that used to come down to Droylsden for a bit of gunboat diplomacy. The canal was blocked for a couple of years from 1987 while the Asda tunnel was built and in 1993 we were contracted by British Waterways to dredge the canal between the tunnel and Old Wharf.
Of interest, the Manchester Ship Canal Co. had a wharf just along the canal from where Agnes lies , this must have dated from 1890s when the MSC opened. Also, while dredging in the area , we recovered several WW2 tank traps- these were cylindrical concrete blocks weighing about 2cwt and were meant to be rolled into the road when we were invaded! There are similar devices on the Wharf at Marple C&RT yard near the sanitary station.
Lock 1W on the huddersfield and the end of navigation at that time, the photographs were probably taken at the time of one of the tameside festivals, the second boat in the pictures is Pensax and is the same one as in post 8 by captain birdseye
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21 hours ago, WhiteSuit said:
No sign of Leon when I came down last September, His tent had gone. Used him once and we made really good time going up.
I have stopped just below the M1 for a meal break but it would be a bit noisy for an overnight. I normally moor on the town moorings, it is very handy for Morrisons, on our way up or down. Quite a number of pedestrians past but always found it quiet and no trouble for overnight. Definitely go with FOTRN for the best river moorings.
Has anyone any news on the current state of the arm, we are looking to go up as soon as allowed. I know several pounds tend to run dry and I assume the arm has hardly been used this year.
He was there when we came up in August in the heat of the summer he was wearing a tee shirt wraped round his waist facing forward pinny style and nowt else.
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55 minutes ago, max's son said:
The pictures were taken in 1961 "The Battle of Stourbridge"
Why was a Forecabin added to the boat and when
The location is about 100yards past Chubbs bridge towards Stourbridge, there was always a scour there as the road drains emptied into the canal at that point. Dane was owned at that time by the Parsons brothers, I thinks its Richard on the helm, Dane made the journey through the Stourbridge Canal a couple of times in the early 60's before its restoration, taking up to 2 days to do about 5 miles, I was sometimes put on the back being the lightest person to manipulate the controls whilst everyone else pulled on ropes to get it over the scours, my first experiance steering a 70 footer, At 9/10 years old some great memories.
Steven
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There are some visitor moorings just above the last narrow lock before the river, there were boats there last summer when i passed through, I was told Asda was just behind the buildings, if you are lucky there will be some moorings on the river before Beckets Park lock near to Morrisons. I stopped in Northampton Marina as the friends who we were travelling with preferred the safety of a marina. It all seemed very quiet despite the fact taht there was a festival in the park.
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(Now we just need to fix the temperamental starter motor i.e. half hearted engagement. With 59 ohms in circuit between the battery and starter, the wiring and switching is the first place to start.)
Also make sure that the starter hasen't moved back a little in its mounting, to large a gap also causes mis engagement problems, 59 ohms resistance in the circuit certainly won't help especially if you are on 12 volt. Does your starter have an oil plug in the nose end? depending on the original application of the starter it may be on the bottom. Toping up the oil will also help as the bendix also dries out over a period of time.
Have noted the engine number, there was already one in the list so have you changed your engine?
Hope the cruising goes well, at least as a full time ocupant you can move whilst the rest of us await a change of rules.
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It may clear itself after a period of running as the oil mist works it way up and everwhwere gets a coating.
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Probably caused by a slightly dry rack and quadrents, the amount of rack movent required to maintain a steady tickover is miniscule so any stickyness causes overshoot.
Manualy oil the rack where it exits the pump body at both ends, and work the rack backwards and forwards, you may have to remove a plate at the front end of the pump, If you have the slotted screw in the front cover pump some oil in as well, if not I find it better to remove the cover and cold start assembly and oil everything directly,
Steve
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A few years ago there was a purge on boats not displaying the regestration number, probably at the time that they were introducing the hand held computer boat logging system. I have an end of garden mooring and due to previous vandalism keep the boat completly sheeted over so the number is not visible. I recived a letter to the correct address with the boat name and number on telling me I shoud be displaying the number, in a fit of pique I painted it on the sheets as big as I could make it and then got asked if they could use a photograph of it to encourage others to follow suit.
I am now waiting a letter as replacement sheets have been fitted and I havent got round to putting the number on again yet.
I remember when the plates were introduced that many didnt want to screw them to the cabin sides and at a canal society meeting the local moorings/enforcemt officer at the time insisting that they should be fitted as supplied, from the outset people painted them on, no doubt some recieved complaints. Mine are as good as the day they were supplied back in 1985 having never been fitted.
Steve
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1+ probably means that the voltage reading is out of range for the selected range selection (20V?) so move it up to the next setting probably 200V
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Great Barford Lock on the Great Ouse
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One of the Galton tunnels under construction
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The next picture in the sequence which looks like Fleet Bridge to me. It is not guarented that the photograpks are in chronological order
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1 hour ago, pearley said:
Your last picture not Woodlesford. Cottage on wrong side.
This picture that I linked to shows it on the RH side and the Cottage looks very similar, the Chimneys are slightly different but they could have been rebuit
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2 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Its hard to tell. I do know the lock cottage in your pictures was demolished and replaced but the control tower and the overhead gantry is different in this picture suggesting that was modified too.
To some extent I am working with 56 year old memories and other photograps in the sequence from which my original image is taken, In the background of the second picture their appears to be a bridge which I take to be Fleet, the next photograph in the sequence is (again I think the loading stage before the bridge).
Looking at OS maps from the era doesnt make things any clearer, but a photo here https://newwoodlesford.xyz/first-world-war/robert-metcalf/ suggests that it may actually be Woodlesford
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The old lemonroyd (I think) taken in 1964. we had been held up at Kippax due to a problem at Lemonroyd for which they had lowered the level between the two locks to carry out repairs
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The new lock at Stoke on Trent 1974 (I think) so not 21st Century but still reasonably new.
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It looks like a flexible impeller pump and depends on which way you want the flow depends on which way it is wired therfore cables are not Pos & Neg specifically. I have two of them and they are both wired up what most would consider the wrong way round due to the way it was necessary to mount them.
Demo on how they work
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43 minutes ago, David Mack said:
I suspect they are all real locations, although possibly based on old photographs.
The picture bottom left shows a narrow lock with an overflow weir half way down the lockside, so presumably the bottom lock of a staircase pair. Botterham perhaps?
Could also have been based on the bottom chamber at Bratch as it to has an overflow in the same position
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The dipstick is part of the filler plug, there is a drain plug at the lowest point of the gearbox, not easy to see