Admiral

Seen on Facebook Narrowboat brokerage page Narrowboat £67,750 London, United Kingdom REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE DUE TO RELOCATION OVERSEAS Beneath the unassuming covers, Roe is a fairytale boat with a fit out made of elm, oak, yew, love and a sprinkling of magic. Built in 1959, she is a 70’ River Class butty, motorised with a Gardner 4LK, rumoured to have come from a WW2 midget submarine. Current owner a boat electrician. Hi spec everything - from bathroom taps to batteries, this is a boat built to last. Totally sorted for long term liveaboard cruising or you can find a marina. The boring bits: Batteries - 6x Trojan T105 Solar controller - Outback 60A MPPT Inverter/Charger - Victron 3000/120/16 Generator - Honda EU30IS Gas boiler - Morco F11 Stove - Morso Squirrel Cooker - 60 cm cast iron hob, 2 ovens/grill. Back cabin stove - Faure Revin, C19 century. Makes ace pizza! Central heating - Mikuni Radiators - 3 + fan assisted rad an bathroom and heated towel rail (stainless, obviously.) Calorifier - 100 ltr single coil. Insulation - 50/100mm Kingspan Fresh water tank - ample Blackwater tank - 4 weeks+ Gas bottles - storage for 4x 2k blacking. Overplated bottom 10" around knees when last out of water according to survey. Current(ish!) survey available. All work specified carried out by reputable yard. Blacking and survey due next yearREDUCED FOR QUICK SA

I sold Archimedes to your father. He always loved it.

This is a great set of photos and information. Thanks for your putting this up. 🙂

We are hoping that Lion and Hawk will be there but you never know if that may change!!

That's me on my first boat so about 1985..

I have this one..

Archimedes when I owned it.

Still the best modern carrying boat I have ever seen. I think this was built alongside Otley hence the proportions are so good.

I know its not old but not a bad price. http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat.phtml?id=555397

I think Graeme at Stockton Dry Dock re-bottomed and re-footed Otley a wile ago now. He did say they only did the hold and not under the back cabin and engine room. I think he is much partial to Large Northwich's even though I keep getting him to work on josher's!!

Bittern was indeed ex FMC Lion. It caught fire when still working as a hire/camper for Willow Wren and then was sold to Alan (New Zealander) who took it to Aylesbury after purchasing it from Willow Wren.

Thats a bit steep for a fiberglass covered wood cabin!

Nice one..

Link is Canada that's because where I am located. I think that ebay adjusted the geo location to where I was when on ebay! Sorry to cause problems :-)