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NB Esk

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  2. Don’t forget Ally as in Marble. I remember asking Mother to make me a little pump bag, to keep all my glass Ally’s in.
  3. I wonder if someone may be able to answer my question? We used to have a different kind of pride in this country, it was known as “ wear your poppy with pride “. This referenced people who had made a sacrifice in the defence of their country, in some cases becoming mentally or physically disabled, or even paying the ultimate sacrifice. My question is, if the above people are entitled to just one day per year ( rememberance Sunday ), how come members of LGB are entitled to an entire month?
  4. Must have had good suspension at the back, with all of that weight. Oh…..hang on..
  5. Ninety five percent sure that it’s a Wakefield boat. Boats exactly like this were built at Thornes Wharf, that checker stern deck plate is a dead giveaway, along with the guard irons and the general bow profile. Built like tanks and if it’s had anything resembling maintenance, should be life left in it.
  6. If those rails are narrow gauge, they’re probably the the “naga lines” from Lofthouse colliery, to Lofthouse basin at Stanley ferry. Once the coal reached the basin, it was then transshipped into Tom pudding compartment boats.
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  8. NB Esk

    Engine clank

    My money would be on the Clankshaft.......
  9. You’re right. I’ve noticed over the years that boats especially don’t seem to like water.......
  10. I believe he may have connections with one of our members, Jeanette Smith Harrison. Possibly a relative. I seem to remember her telling of how he pushed her into the canal, when they were children. Hopefully I have that right.
  11. This might just be the one. Moored up at Wakefield, approximately where the Sea Scouts are now. The light coloured warehouse to the left is still standing. Sorry about the quality, it’s a copy of a copy.
  12. All good stuff, just remember you’re the boss and the plate isn’t. As well as pulling, I employed pushing. In the photo you can see the use of a “ portapower “ ram, there was so much pressure on, that the solid tyres of the forklift were bending sideways. R-Tech welder, nice little machine...
  13. Effort for financial reward, probably not. Effort for personal satisfaction, immeasurable.
  14. If it’s an iPad, home and power button simultaneously and you’ll hear the camera click. The image is then in your photo album.
  15. I think what appears to be the fuel leak off is in fact a morse control cable, it’s an optical illusion.
  16. Ducks are a bit bonkers, there was a pair in our yard a couple of weeks ago and the female insisted on sitting in a coil of rope, she was convinced it would pass for a nest. I had to move it so we didn’t have a ducky migrant family living with us.
  17. I’m sure she could have ducked out of their way...
  18. We would collect and scrap if it was within a day’s travel, by water, of Wakefield. The last one we collected ( from an OAP ) who had given up boating, looked far too good to scrap, so we had it surveyed. It passed with flying colours, so we blacked it and welded on new anodes. The first person to view bought it and we were able to take 3k back to the old fella. He was delighted as he’d expected to be covering our costs. When they are scrapped, the bows are cut off to make a skip sized container, the rest goes into this ( in large chunks ) and the interior goes into a skip.
  19. Always look forward to reading your individual and informative posts. Could you clarify something that might help explain your style? You give your location as “ Foundry Arms, Poole “, that’s a pub, right?
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  23. Thanks for correcting those. The repairs wouldn’t be a problem but trying to correct those images was another matter (I have tried). That work is some I did around ten years ago, so it’s proven it’s reliability. Out of interest, I also “adapted “ and fitted the skeg, I’m sure the eagle-eyed will recognise what I made it from.
  24. If that’s what the damage/problem is, it should be entirely possible to make a permanent repair on site and with the boat still in the water. All that’s required are a couple of weld on flanges (obtainable from industrial pipe supplies) and the usual welding equipment. One flange is welded to the top of the rudder blade and the other to the broken off section of bar/post. To fit, the post piece is threaded up through the counter and then the blade slotted into place and bolted up. A solid and permanent repair, all carried out through the weed hatch. For clarity, for some reason the photo is inverted, it’s not like that in my album and I don’t know how to correct it.
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