alan_fincher

The problem that Graham explains in his initial post is even more of a problem if the oncoming boat insists on staying in the middle of the canal, but both of you are in a "2-way" tunnel!

Fair point! I'm not sure I would want to pay over the odds for a boat that was not able to accommodate "normal" 13Kg Propane cylinders, though - particularly as Calor are discontinuing at least some of the cylinder sizes tat are smaller than 13Kg. The appearance of "modern" tug decks is very much a personal opinion, but I agree with those who have already stated that the one on this boat is aesthetically too short. The late boat builder Keith Ball suggested to me once that 7 feet was an absolute minimum, but that ideally you want a foot or two more than that, particularly on the longest boats.

But if your engine room only sports a common or garden Lister, and you keep the engine hole doors shut, you may be surprised to hear that you are still regularly presented with people who say how wonderful it sounds, and asking what it is - the response regularly surprises them! And if you think an engine room with closed doors gets really hot with a water cooled engine you want to try it with an air cooled one!

https://aqueductmarina.co.uk/second-hand-boats/brigand-67ft-steve-hudson-trad-stern/ HOW MUCH!?! - They are having a laugh, surely?

Which gearbox? What reduction ratio?

How much? Is there a zero on the end there that shouldn't be?

Yes, Our bank places a £10K limit, and it has in the past proved impossible to over-ride it. (The £10K hasn't been increased in very many years, so inflation is effectively limiting the maximum payment.) The next problem you may face is that the £10K can only be done on business days (weekdays) so your buyer may no be able to instigate a second £10K before Monday. However I would have thought they could instruct their bank to do a CHAPS transfer for the full amount. They will need to pay a fee for this, (about £30, I think, the last time we used it), but I think they could get a payment through today, if they get onto their bank immediately. r

Thank you @PeterScott - I really like those, as they convey the atmosphere of the parade very nicely. A shame they clearly show a need for fairly urgent maintenance of SICKLE's hull, but I guess that is just life!

I believe not.

Yes - both of the above. I once experienced appalling behaviour by the crew of an historic boat - but thankfully it is not something I have ever seen repeated. Behaviour by "Trust" of "Friends of" crews can sometimes be less than perfect, but I have found if challenged through the proper channels, they usually take a complaint quite seriously.

An interesting video - thanks for the link. I was intrigued to see one Alan Vessey interviewed in the topic of the Deltic engine. As a youth I enjoyed invites to Alan's O gauge garden railway, mostly clockwork but with some live steam. Since then I'm aware of Alan's long term involvement at the Quainton Road railway preservation site, (now rebranded as Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Various "steam" publications have also shown his major involvement in restoring Great Western express locomotives. My last face to face contact with Alan was at my mother's funeral. Great to see he is still with us - an interesting man indeed.

An unusually quiet aftermath to Braunston in terms of photos and videos that have been posted since - this despite a pretty good attendance of something like 80 historic boats. We were involved enough soaking up the atmosphere that we failed to take any of our own photos. However scouring around we have turned up several for our own boat SICKLE. Here's a selection> (Photo by Ian Mulford of this forum) (Photo by Kev Maslin) (Photo by Polly Parrot)

I'm not convinced it is NUTFIELD paired with RAYMOND. Might it not in fact be ROGER, before it was replaced by NUTFIELD? If so the picture is no later than October 1968, I think.

Nowhere did I mention "legal" or "legally". I could just as easily been referring to "common-sense" requirement!

A fascinating alternative to the more usual rum of the mill approaches. Clearly it will not appeal to those who want some kind of front deck / well, but otherwise seems a very innovative arrangement. Out of curiosity how do you meet the requirement to have emergency exit routes at the front of the boat?

My somewhat flaky memory wants to say that what Terence had stolen was a large amount of "raw "items awaiting painting. I don't recall ever hearing that any was recovered, but it is a long time ago, and I may be wrong. I got the impression they were BCM "manufactured" items.

Very occasionally something like that comes up, but it is VERY occasionally. Far more likely, of course is a totally unconverted motor. Quite a few on offer at the moment with mostly an under cloth conversion - I can think of BADSEY & CHISWICK, (plus CYPRUS, if owner will sell separately from its butty). If you want a completely unconverted one, then there is VESTA, but she is 40 Feet long, not 72 Feet long

Yes, I was only talking about anybody offering a can that is water-tight. I'm well aware of the deficiencies of the BCM cans, because I once made the foolish mistake of buying one A tree incident removed (only) the handle into the cut, whilst leaving the rest of the can on the roof. I failed to "magnet fish" it, so took the incomplete can to the local tip.

I don't recall anybody other than Rose Narrowboats saying they would make some.

Yes, if you mean a really convincing "replica", (Brinklow Boats use the term "Remake"), then I agree, there are precious few about. I'm not aware of anybody making full length "replicas" or "remakes" that use riveted construction for the hull.

In my relatively limited experience of selling/buying historic boats, the price that might be achieved, (which may or may not be "a fair price"), can be heavily influenced by how many interested potential buyers there are. Irrespective of type, (unconverted, under cloths converted, full cabin converted), and size , (full length or shortened), they are all very much a niche market, and many may not tick the boxes of what a potential "historic" purchaser is seeking. If a boat comes to market that multiple people have an interest in, then it may well change hands for far more than if only one person is genuinely interested - it can take months or even years before a decent candidate boat becomes openly available, and then someone may pay well over the odds to secure it, rather than go back to another indeterminate period of waiting. The other thing to bear in mind is that far more "historics" are sold by word of mouth than ever actually come onto the open market, openly advertised and in theory available to anybody with the money. Even when openly advertised some sellers will prefer to sell to someone they think should be a good custodian to the boat, and may be more reticent to sell to someone who thinks they want an "historic", but don't realise what that may mean in practice

The image seems very low resolution, so difficult to see much detail. Any Black Country Metalworks can I have seen is galvanised. However the quality of the soldering is usually poor - the cans are not water tight, and details like handles have a havit of disconnecting themselves.

The latest take on selling BADSEY Worth a read just for the quality rant by the seller... I'm not sure why the seller thinks spelling out all the above is likely to increase BADSEY's appeal to any other potential new buyer.! A very much older incarnation of RENOWN, (1972, I think)....

I do have an HA3 in the garage, so if it is really important I could try comparing it to the pictures in the advert. I've never seen an HA2 or HA3 mated to a Lister gearbox that wasn't the usual Blackstone one. I think that the punier gearbox in the add points to it being a less powerful engine - S series rather than H series.

It is listed as "Spares or Repairs", so I doubt it is a running engine. I'm no great expert but don't think it looks like an HA3. My gut feel is that it is a less powerful engine.