let me go boating

Rumour has it that the ‘Wincham’ wasn’t in that bad a condition at all. We have an old riveted barge and its easy to get a surveyor who is not in tune with the older boat. We spoke to one guy who surveyed ships who thought that we were mad to be looking at a boat that was riveted because that meant that it was so old that it would be bound to be knackered! We had another who reckoned it would only take him about 3 hours to do the survey! Our looking around paid off and we found a surveyor who had great experience with barges and understood the needs of historic boats.

Try AMC Diesel Eng / Thornycroft they are the professional marinisers and they are really helpful. 01772 613003 Calcutt boats sell imported copies of the BMC original.

This all seems really daft. A guy near us has just bought an old arm on the River Weaver where narrow boats used to be built years ago and he is going to have boats moored in it. Apparently that was going to be filled in until he came along. I hope this other place will get saved.