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A green watering can painted with small cabbages.

Sorry to hear your experience. Scum comes in all shapes sizes and from all directions. However wherever you are, it will always float to the surface. No chances any local CCTV may have picked up a boat that passed through the area out of hours with a brief stop over?

That's the very Bo-yo! And oddly I was going to also say "As originally fitted to Martin Fuller's Anne", but these days I seem to reference things that nobody else understands.

Very similar to The Harbourmaster used in the 50/60s(?)

Since 1973 I've had 8 boats. The first 3 had a Calor Gas Stove and a kettle. The remaining 5 I always followed the same process: - Get back from work, rake out the stove, scrunch up paper and light it, throw on wood and coal. Place kettle on top for hot water botty. Job jobbed!

I think the batch of butty boats that arrived together were a different lot. Didn't they come off maintenance from the Newark area? Rigal (as said) was bought from Pinder who had chopped the back off and put the counter on. Rigal's original back end sat in Pinder's car park for for a few years before becoming the front end of another boat called "Rigal 1935" Thanks for your post, terrific photos. I've seen the top one before and recognise the bottom view well due to laying under her numerous times forcing caulking up between the bottoms. You're right about the elm problem, those bottoms didn't fair well and although lasted just under 20 years started to retract from each other almost from the beginning. Also the kelson was soft wood. It's essential to record these things accurately, especially in the world of t'internet where anybody can repeat any old nonsense they thought they heard. Once ingrained for others to access, a vague guessed at bit of information is available to be picked up by anyone and repeated as the truth. That's how history is lost.

Correct, and I am in agreement with your opinions. I bought Rigal from Richard Bird. The HA2 was fitted by Peter Thompson it was originally ex Atlas.

Incorrect on so many levels ... "Rigal" not Rigel was a butty chopped in the 70s by Pinder. His intention being to make a 60ft trip boat. The hull ended up with Murrels (of this parish) where she finished as a tug. In the 80s Roger Fuller lengthened her at Stone. In the 90s Ian painted her green. Otherwise spot on😕

His first boat was the one he helped Paul Barber build. It was built at The Farm and I believe named after the farm(?) Barber sold diesel from it and it was eventually sold and converted. He did chop Marcellus into two bits as described. I believe he built John or David Parrot's boat "Arcadia/Arcadian(?)"

Someone walks their tall male dog along there.

Requests? Can you sing "Far Far away"?

The purpose of an ice breaker was to, errr ... break ice. To that end the design included bluff stem, thick plating and the ability to rock it from side to side, violently. Is that obvious in this Yarwoods boat described as an inspection launch?

Forty years ago (so may well be different now) one came up vacant. Enquiries revealed the access road belonged to a third party who charged an access fee, but would still deny entrance hap hazardly. The biggest issue for me was the utilities (water and electricity) also passed through the access road and as such was also under the control, as well as pricing of the land owner. That was enough for me to walk away. There is every likely hood that any such stupidity has been resolved by now, or possibly has deteriorated even further.

I think we are referring to the canals that carried long distance narrow boats, regarding this thread.

I thought she was an inspection boat, nothing to do with ice breaking. Wrong size, shape and era for clearing ice to keep traffic on through. "unofficial community hubs for boaters, the place everyone would gather for a comforting brew" ???!!!

Apart from Ian's phone number is Comet listed anywhere?

It's the flux of the earth.

All quite splendid. Your skills, talent and enthusiasm know no bounds. Any thoughts as to the lump yet?

The current back end is free of such embellishments.

That's the ticket!

Hmm? Seems they might have just reinvented cross straps.

Extend by 2ft? What are you missing, somewhere to store toilet rolls?