Phil.specialist.electrical

Everyone is giving such great advise here, I’m really getting a good idea of what’s needed and what to check. Something I didn’t make clear was the over plate was not at Brinklow, the over plate was more recently at streethay. I wonder if anyone knows Streethays capabilities of welding to old iron?

Hi Guys. I’m just going through the sale this week of LMS station butty Ethel. She is getting a hull survey this week. I’ve done lots of research and spoke to various builders including Brinklow who did extensive work to her in the 90’s. Replacing the footings and knees. Recently she has had a 6mm parcial over plate on the base plate forward. I had feed back from a boater over the weekend that they had heard Ethel had incorrect method of over plating the base plate and that it should of been cut out and replaced. Does anyone know if that opinion is just for historical particularity? Is it ok to over plate an iron hull like this? My surveyor seems to think so. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks for you reply. Yes typo on my part there. My curiosity was that the only LMS boat I can find that is 71’6” is Czar, so I wondered if that helps identify that Ethel was once Czar? Ethel was thought to of been The May, but ‘The May’ is in Stoke Brurne weigh bridge. I was looking at her just yesterday actually and id an identical build to Elthel, I might measure her length to see if there is in fact a difference.

Old thread I know but just in case.. I’ve just bought an LMS station butty. I’m sure it must be Czar no 21 as notes say Czar was 71’. My new boat Ethel is 71’ and I can’t see that Yarwards made any other 71’ers.