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stagedamager

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  1. If you decide to keep her in the water for whatever reasons, we're quite cheap at Langley Mill if you need somewhere to store her, failing that Redhill is the best local hardstanding price wise but can flood quite easily, and as Alec says, a tad run down.

    Kind regards

    Dan

    Langley Mill Boatyard 

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  2. My two penneth......

    If the epoxy is sound then i'd re-cover in that, we have so many new hulls through where customers have paid extra for epoxy blacking and the boats haven't been prepped properly and the 2 pack is just stuck to the millscale and it all falls of when the hull is washed off. If howerver, it is fine, wash, prep, key and 2 pack away!

    many manufacturers do a surface tolerant primer these days which doesn't require the hull to be blasted to whatever BS EN grade it needs to be and we have seen favourable results with it as a base coat. 

    Failing that a good quality high build bitumen would be fine. Good bitumen is better than bad 2 pack!

     

    Kind regards

     

    Dan

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  3. As a boatyard operator, and the owner of historic craft, including butties, and pleasure craft, we fall into several categories, there are times where it is easier, when towing, if the situation allows to try and keep the butty behind the motor but if the pound is low or the cut is busy, then we would split the tow as the situation dictates. We assume no hierarchy on the cut, and if people are inexperienced we help where we can, just as others have helped us when moving a pair with just two of us. Also, hirers have just as much right to be on the cut as anyone. It winds me up hearing of stories of elitism on the cut. And, let's all be thankful that the shouty likes of the Reverend are no longer out and about. 

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  4. On 07/01/2022 at 18:33, Mr Lister said:

    I can quite happily reassure you that CRT are not planning to "Break up" Ariel. That is just another unfortunate rumour in circulation at the moment.

     

    I shall dispel a few of those rumours soon.

     

    Ariel is moored at long Buckby VM moorings where she unfortunately sank after a someone stole the bilge pump battery's from the bow and stern, while I was dealing with Hesperus at the drydock.

    Ariel is due in drydock soon where she will undergo a complete inspection and a long term plan drawn up for her overhaul, Hesperus, Is having new Bow knees made along with a stem post and I am currently sourcing the oak for the planking for the bow on her.

     

    Mr Lister

    As someone who is not totally up on these things, Ben, can you explain how you can make a stem post when the boat is not out of the water, and how you can make new knees if you intend to reprofile the lines of the bow without removal of the old planks and careful spiling to get the new shape?

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  5. 2 hours ago, magnetman said:

    I noticed that Laurence Hogg was mentioned.

    Got me thinking. He was incredibly knowledgeable and had a lot of hard copies of very useful stuff related to canal boats. 

     

    What happened to all of his stuff? 

     

    It's sad if it all ended up getting binned. One would hope that this sort of knowledge base would get looked after. Possibly by a museum but I know they put things in drawers and frequently sell them off. 

     

    His boat plan diagrams must be somewhere. 

    Most of the drawings he got from the crt archives and where needed, re-drew them. I don't know what happened to his collection, I agree it would be a shame if it was lost.

  6. 8 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

     

    That caused me to check my photos of my trip to London and back. I generally snap any notable boat I pass but Ariel doesn't appear.

     

    Nothing snapped between some of the usuals at Dodford and then Effingham to the east of Braunston Tunnel and that was in mid to late October. I'm not disputing it was there, just thought I might be able to corroborate with photographic evidence.

    I can lend you a photo if you want to fill in the gaps!!! 🤣

    The photos I was sent showed her up Braunston on the 27th Sept and moored at Buckby 29th.

     

    Kind regards

     

    Dan

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