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Yes, I'm sure spud has it. I was also coming up with Mindon Marine.
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Great photo Ian. I don't think I have ever seen one that shows the actual tanks until now.
I assume they may have been travelling empty in this photo - they look too high out of the water to be carrying a meaningful load.
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7 hours ago, Francis Herne said:
(being naive as usual) Is the argument that a day boat isn't a butty? In later working life and as she is now, with a cabin on, describing her as a butty seems reasonable to me.
Built at Northwich seems correct?
Obviously "Small" is nonsense for a non-GU boat.
That sounds about right to me....
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1 hour ago, IanM said:
Raven (the name given to it by Willow Wren) was another butty and had a full length cabin fitted but I forget its original name and was moored outside Roger’s yard at one point but I’m pretty sure it never got cut in two by him as I saw it still intact somewhere else afterwards.
Edited to add: Raven was originally the GUCCC butty Hydrus.
I'm not sure this is correct - I don't think HYDRUS was ever a Willow Wren boat.
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4 minutes ago, David Mack said:
.............and the back end should be named Achilles Heel.
Boom! boom!
From memory I think not a lot of Achilles ended up in this boat.
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1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:
I thought I had a reasonable memory of what "historic" boats had served in the Wyvern fleet. I certainly don't recall ever hearing about TYBURN, although it is perfectly possible I am wrong.
27 minutes ago, David Mack said:John Gagg's 1970 book 'Canals in Camera' includes this photo of a converted tug on the Stort. The caption refers to it as a former hire boat on the Grand Union, and I always thought it was the with Wyvern fleet (although I don't know where that thought came from).
OK. I own up - I was wrong!
The tug TYBURN did indeed work on the Wyvern Shipping hire fleet, under the name of PERSEVERANCE.
Sorry for any confusion!
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15 hours ago, zenataomm said:
Tyburn was owned by Jim MacDonald, he operated it as a mobile welder on The Erewash. It was previously a hire boat with Wyvern, 60s I think.
Jim purchased an HA3 as a demonstration model at the Boat Show where it was on display. He hooked it up to a massive generator/welder and installed it on board.
It was at that point he discovered there were no pistons nor con rods included. He sold it on in the 80s to a chap called Mike Fox.
I thought I had a reasonable memory of what "historic" boats had served in the Wyvern fleet. I certainly don't recall ever hearing about TYBURN, although it is perfectly possible I am wrong.
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17 hours ago, PeterScott said:
From 8Sep2022 ...
From 25Jun2023
People seem to keep referring to this as riveted. Is it?
4 minutes ago, magnetman said:At least the square box over the helm area stops it filling with rain water.
Does it? It loooks like the flat(ish) room has large holes in it.
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49 minutes ago, Paul C said:
Didn't NBW have some other person (Allan ??????) who submitted a string of FOI requests, resulting in him being marked as a vexatious requester and CRT not needing to further communicate with him?
It just seems like a fishing expedition, with no public interest value.
Errm yes.......
The article linked to is clearly the work of Allan Richards, (or at the very least he has had strong input to it).
It is typical Allan Richards; sensationalism - produce a story, but be "creative" to beef up the headline!
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13 hours ago, BEngo said:
The Ellesmere Port to Aldridge run was operated for Duckhams, but was shipping lubricating oil for blending rather than diesel. The cargo was in cylindrical tanks installed in ex GU and FMC boats. I think Midland Canal Transport were the carrier. At least one boat capsized during loading or unloading. There are pictures in, IIRC, the excellent Phillip Weaver photo book published by the h/ HNB(O)C.
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Unless I'm confusing it with something else, then the carrier was Birmingham & Midland, rather than Midland Canal Transport.
I think only ex Grand Union Canal Carrying Co boats were used for that traffic- I can't think of any FMC boats likely to have been involved.
I think the traffic was very short lived.Here you go!
Brimingham & Midland's YEOFORD and PICTOR on the Duckham's Oil Traffic in 1970 (or so it says!)...
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The Lister HA2 now in SICKLE was reputedly from a standby generator set, but I don't know whose.
Small correction - the very famous hospital in Oxford is the John Radcliffe.
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On 31/03/2024 at 21:38, Captain Pegg said:
Bona fide historic working boater. Born Alice Wain and grew up on working boats and married into another boating family.A regular attendee at historic events.
Thanks to Captain Pegg & RayT for their explanations.
From memory her early life afloat was with horse boats.
She, her parents, and her siblings are the subject of the biography "A Horse A Boat And you". It gives a very good insight to those born on the boats, and who stayed with them to the very end of long distance carrying.
She could hardly have been more embedded in the boating tradition. Two of her sisters, Vera and Ann married Ken Ward and Ted Ward, who were themselves brothers, although I am fairly certain she has outlived all of these.
I didn't know her well, but did converse with her from time to time. Her brother-in-law Ken Ward and her sister Vera Ward (nee Wain) operated our boat FLAMINGO for Willow Wren CTS in the late 1960s.
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2 minutes ago, Rob-M said:
Not going to get in to a discussion on this thread but rules or not, given the subject of the thread that song is not appropriate and in my view tasteless, therefore it should not be a post in this thread.
Agreed 100%
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For those who are interested, but don't do Facebook...
Sadly Alice Lapworth passed away yesterday.
No small number will no doubt be saddened by this news. However, I suspect if you don't recognise the name you probably have little interest in this news.Photo lifted from Facebook
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Looks to be a great gathering - some of those boats have come up from places very large distances to the South.
We have always hoped we might get our boat.s up there, if only for just one year.
We have never managed it, and our circumstances now make it quite unlikely we never will.
A shame, but we need to be realistic.
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14 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
had me boat valued earlier this month and it’s doubled in value over 12 years 🤷♀️
The estimated value of the boat has doubled.
The actual value only doubles if and when you manage to make a sale at the estimated figure
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14 hours ago, MtB said:
They should be so lucky. Plenty of landies have seen their mortgage costs rise by 250%.
25% rise spread over four years is barely more than inflation. In fact it's possibly less.
I'm no fan of the NBTA. Having met and had conversations with Panda Smith and Marcus Trower I long ago formed my own opinions of what their agenda is.
HOWEVER, unless I'm missing something the 25% is not the amount by which their mooring fees will increase over 4 years, it is the amount that the surcharge will increase IN ADDITION TO the amount amount that licences will increase generally. That is they will still pay the same increase as you or me, and this 25% will be in addition to that.
Not quite the same thing at all.
Of course you also have the wide beam surcharge, so it seems that a "continous cruiser" with a fat boat gets a double whammy.
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8 hours ago, BEngo said:
Plenty of people selling Golden Film SAE 30 online. Classic Oils usually have it, or an alternative like Beetlejuice.
I believe Morris's do mail order. They are not usually the cheapest.
Indeed. Buying direct from Morris generally seems to be one of the most expensive ways to buy their oils!
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13 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Flag staff, IWA, AWCC and Club flags
Good call!
You can see small loops both at the top and at the bottom of each upright, so looks very much like it is to hang three pennants from.
Just one thing though - Why on earth would you?
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4 hours ago, bizzard said:
Essex Motor Factors of Bishops Stortford stock the range of Morris oils. I use them in boats and in my car. Very good service. = Essex Motor Factors 01279 653211.
AFAIK Morris don't do a 15W/40 in their Golden Film range - a shame as it meets the API CC requirement.
I've not re-checked, but over the years I have used Morris 10W/40, 20W/40, and straight monograde SAE 30.
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I don't know if Ed Boden still includes the Southern Oxford in his patch - he certainly used to advertise that he covered it.
If he still does I would highly recommend him - he has a habit of sorting out what other engineers have missed, and prices are competitive.
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On 18/03/2024 at 23:00, matty40s said:
Woolworths paint was very consistent and good quality.
Exactly this! ^^^^^^^^
It was a good paint, and very easy to use.
However the Woolworths that I used to buy from seldom had more than about 3 fairly small cans in any chosen colour.
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An a previous boat the "ceiling" above" quite a small and enclosed shower was the same as throughout the whole boat - 9mm oak faced plywood.
This suffered no damage at all from hot and steamy showers.
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Perhaps you could persuade them to relabel the items listed as "Bargeware"!
As far as I'm concerned that is bad enough to keep encountering on eBay, without actually finding it turning up in a museum.
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How to chose a new starter battery?
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Yes "cold cranking amps" (or "CCA") is what is most important for a starter battery. Amp Hours (or "Ah") is far less relevant.
This is because you want it to supply very (very) big currents for a short period only, being quite different from a leisure battery which needs to be able only to supply very much smaller currents, but continuously over a number of hours.
A starter battery ranging from (say) 700CCA to 900CCA should be far more than you need,