stagedamager

i have a set of his winter plates, which I am very fond of.

12k would be pretty fair. Depending on hull condition, but work has been carried out recently i believe. There are only 2 Keays tugs in existence, and the other one won't be for sale any time soon. Worth a punt if you're that way inclined.

Hi all, It's been a couple of months since, and we've moved on a bit, working mainly on the stern, and building the bow up ready to get the top bend and bow chine profiles scribed in. We have also set up a page, over on Facebook if anyone is one there and wishes to follow our progress. Facebook

Argus

Envirograf and stove rope all the way. Never had any issues.

The red J2 is in Harrier.

We're not all that bad, it's just everyone gets tarred with the same brush sadly due to these very kind of instances.

Chiswick?

Roger fullers yard in Stone.

I believe there exists plans in the national waterways archive for a wide royalty class boat which was never built. I've never seen them and this is only through conversations so it might all be total rubbish!!

We just did at Langley Mill for a 3 year old 2 packed boat which hadn't been surface prepped and was still covered in millscale.

Precisely!

Mills dockyard or Trevethicks?

The biggest issue at a lot of single locks, especially going up hill, is a lot of lock tail bridges don't have towpaths through them, so involves bow hauling the butty back, which can be ok, until you need to swing the line under said bridge, and fight any weir streams. CRT in their infinite wisdom have also redesigned most of the split bridges as the original engineers got it wrong and left a gap, and the modern office bods deem that too dangerous, so bang goes the gaps for bowhauling lines. It is entirely do able, but in certain circumstances it is tricky to achieve, and the age old argument of wasting water whilst stood next to a bywash with a good few inches flowing over is always the first line of reasoning as to why it shouldn't happen. If it is necessary and achievable i always allow the other boater through, but at times it can be safer to allow the pair through together.

towing an unladen butty on cross straps is fine, i echo all the above don't thrash it assuming you won't have enough power, you will be fine, but be mindful of having enough speed so the butty steerer has steerage. I find the biggest issue these days is people cruising too slowly so you're constantly in and out of tickover and losing steerage on the butty and therefore starts to throw the motor round. most of the time they won't let you past either!! When working Meteor with a 55ft tug, mum and dad attached an eye with a shckle on the butty gunwhales to breast up with, and that worked really well. Just do it, you won't regret it!!!

And in true FCC style, no mention of the work done by the Erewash Canal Preservation and Development Association who seem to have done the majority of the work, and provided the plant machinery. The works that WRG were involved with over the mentioned weekend in my opinion were dangerous, no demarcation for the general public who were able to walk into the middle of a construction site with plant machinery moving about, which was not WRGs responsibilty but FCC. It all seems a bit Heath Robinson to me. The Langley Mill rally was the ideal opportunity to push their restoration and apart from a few guided tours, if you weren't on one of those, whilst you were able to visit the restoration site, it was just piece of cleared waste ground with no information present as to what was what until the final afternoon when an A3 plan was attached to a gate. Can't see CRT adopting this sadly moving forward. Kind regards Dan

Told you you would...... 🤣

Not wholly surprised. The maintenance on the moorings was inadequate at best when we were there.

I've got a marine....

Aah I misunderstood! I've got a few AS3s if you're genuinely looking.....

Nowt wrong with an AS. Much nicer than a common Lister....... 🤣

I think the pair have been split if recent Facebook posts are correct.

I've got a lovely HA3 with a Blackstone Box we are looking to sell in the not too distant future...........

Thanks Bee, that is very much the plan, but you can't rush these things, and today is far too hot to even think about doing any work!

We had a great walk round yesterday and spoke to a lot of people but there is never enough time to chat to all! And, we only managed 1 picture sadly. It was great to see so many butties there this year, and many parading.