Muddy Waters

Oil on Canvas - well that was confusing as I thought it was an album by Japan. I did wonder what a thread about a band from the 70s/80s was doing here. Hay Ho.

So would I.

Quite right.

Yes, agree but the motors were devoid of any swags just a modest stripe. And as you all so say long before H & S got involved.

Now that is the best idea yet - I could go for that.

Oops, silly me. Any way - the point I was trying to make, poorly as it goes, is that counter bands in a tunnel are not really that visible. I just think they look good on the back of a motor - I like mine any how.

The earliest pictures of boats with counter bands were of the FMC steamers. These boats often boated fly and indeed if they were towing a train of boats you would not be able to see the bands. Lot of people call these bands tunnel bands and believe they are there as a safety feature in tunnels and some call them navigation bands. Your point about electric lights in the back cabin - FMC use paraffin to the end and if you are towing a butty you might not see much from the cabin lights. And as Roland said You can’t see someone’s counter bands in the tunnels they are too low . If the boa

Indeed.

I've been reading about these , counter bands, on the friendly narrowboat do dah on that FB thing and I thought what a load of fetid dingo's kidneys. As for making your self more visible in tunnels really. Steamers had counter bands and I would have thought that, 1) all the smoke would be a clue that there might be a boat ahead of me and 2) I would be unable to see the boat ahead of me because of all the smoke etc. 3) and as diesels motors took over from 'orse boats and steamers they often boated with a butty so you still would not be able to see the counter bands. 4) I don't think that the ol

Good point,well made. Built in the middle of 1936 I see.

Is not Aber a big boat?

Yep, what's wrong with that? It's a nice ten feet.

OMG, yet another boat based on a large Northwich - not.These boats look as if they were built by people who had heard about these mythical craft but had not actually see one. I have a 200 year old book about animals of the know world and it is obvious that the person illustrating the book has not seen some of the subjects in the flesh as it were. I feel sorry for the people who really believe that they have paid out for an accurate replica of an historic hull shape. The only thing that I can see that it has in common with a large Northwich is that it is built in steel an

That was my thought as well.

1969 isn't that a little late?