Mike C

The Charlie I knew didn't have a beard and didn't work his life as a Cadbury man. What Bollocks !!

What is the silver (?) thing forward of 'Chris' on the cabin top? its the wrong era and a difficult location for a graffiti 'tag' on the factory wall - not that I have any experience !

http://www.boatmuseumsociety.org.uk/images/marbury-all/Marbury/marburybackalongsidebigmere.jpg

Because they are horrible !

No, when I tried it was freshly applied, - give it a go, you may be surprised!

Offering caution is good, but offering fact is better. Try applying some to a piece of scrap plate and then weld on it and the truth will out.

catalytic ?

There is a formal consolation on the proposals. If you have comment on the loss of use of this slipway and its canopy then please send something to pdimoldenberg@quatro-consults.co.ukEmail link Brief comments are fine. Mine simply says. ‘This development should not mean the loss of use of the covered slipway’ With 'Northwich riverside development' in the subject area.

There is a formal consolation on the proposals. If you have comment on the loss of use of this slipway and its canopy then please send something to pdimoldenberg@quatro-consults.co.uk Email link Brief comments are fine. Mine simply says. ‘This development should not mean the loss of use of the covered slipway’ With 'Northwich riverside development' in the subject area.

The type we have is reasonably similar to the second one down link Its a large barge, with 3 young kids and generally my wife or I aboard during the day. We burn 25-30 gls or so per month. The boiler is also used to heat two colorifiers (1st feeds 2nd) giving a combined hot water capacity of 40gl used for 2 kids baths, 3 showers and the washing mashine and dishwasher per day - we carry and use 700 gals of fresh water /week. so we are not being efficient, but the boiler is effiecient in the amount of heat per gl fuel etc. boiler details

We have a 240v ac powered gas oil domestic house boiler and have run it for 15 yrs on our English barge which we live on. It is very reliable, its is quiet and very efficient. As a domestic appliance the spares are cheep (none needed so far) and at 28KW (yes that high !) the boiler cycle is low/short and the with no adverse effects on the boiler from the short cycle. The water jacket of the household domestic boiler system holds 3 gallons and so the water pump runs it round the rads nicely bvetween heating bursts. I spent a great deal of time looking at various options and have been paid to explore very many alternatives for clients but if you are living aboard and have the space to house it in the engine room then it is a great option. Our unit runs happily on a non sine wave inverter or generator ....or hook up on the occasions that it is available to us. It is not 240v power hungry due to the duty cycles that it operates. Boiler such as this are availale from loads of places including your local builder merchant at about £600-£700 last time I looked.

For those who don't tend to look in the 'News' section of this forum you might be interested in this about the Slipway at Hayhurst Yard, Northwich. link

Watch out folks the sting is that the development will mean a major supermarket car park next to the river and the loss of the British Waterways Hayhurst repair yard slipway and shed which is in constant use by private boaters. The demise of another facility for a supermarket (Waitrose)- Northwich already has (within easy walking distance) Sainsbury, Tesco, Tesco express, M&S, Lidle, Aldie, Co-op and Iceland.

Is anyone doing anything with the work Clive had started?

Barry - Is it stamford?

The advantages of rounded chines can be that when you ride up on the mud the boat tends to slide off, the rounded chines can make them tender rather than unstable. The George and Mary also have rounded chines. The Centre section of the ‘Starling’ when called something like the ‘Louise’ or ‘Louise Jane’ was given the bow and stern a long time ago, I remember it on the moorings at or near Lymm in the 1970’s with each rivet painted in alternating colours of the boats colour scheme. While it may be less than beautiful it is much more interesting in every way that the masses of bland 57ft ‘Clone craft’ that are so popular and has probably been 'as is' for nearly half its life.

Ah - Severn is still at Yarwoods Basin on the Weaver. www.yarwoodsbasin.co.uk

This is (I am reasonably sure) the 'Clitheroe' taken at Bottany bay and it has now been very nicely refurbished by Wood Hall and Heward and is back in service for carrying and civil engineering on the GU. I seem to recall that one of the timber boats at Tarleton was the 'Peter'.

Mike Stork was owned by Oswald and Pat Plant - with Corgi dog 'Penny' and yes Richard B did have 'Chertsey' there now you remind me. I remember my father realising that the home brew strength increased each week as he made up the next lot while under the influence of the last. - Do you also remember the coal dust 'turds' made with cement powder and one of our plastic buckets from the sand pit? - I remember them spiting and cracking as they burnt - smouldered

Try http://www.high-line.co.uk/index/articles.php?id=95&page=Vents

We very much welcome historic boats and as such we offer a FREE mooring to visiting historic boats (Subject to availability) and encourage historic narrowboats as permanent moorers over modern craft in the arm that was part of WJ Yarwood site. www.yarwoodsbasin.co.uk – as I look around today there are 9 historic boats here with 2 that moor here all the time being out and about on the system. We can have up to 17 at anyone time but try to keep 4 moorings available for passing craft, in the last couple of years we have about 45 visiting historic boats for various durations. To check availability just give me a ring – 07831 184495

Yes the 1934 Austin seven was owned by the same family as the NB George but that was definatly a steel NB. It could be that you are getting confused with the woden Hotel Boats 'Mabel' and 'Forget-me-not' which were owned in the early 1990's by one of the familys sons but they were only there for a couple of winters.

The wooden NB 'Hebble' and the 'Droitwich' were about in that area in the 1970's and the ‘Hebble’ may have been there just into the 1980's (before going to Chorley as an exhibit at L&L Cruisers, but not at Crabtree or New lane. The only NB 'George' was the one I mentions I’m sure.... as it was ours and I’m also sure (I hope) that I would have known of any others sharing the name. Mike - Do you remember any other wooden NB's when you were there on Pluto?

I suspect the Narrowboat ‘George’ that you refer to was the Royalty Class motor moored up outside the cottages just Burscough side of Crabtree lane swing bridge which is where Pluto, ‘Fat George’ and Scporpio were in the early 1970’s. – NB George was there from late 1960’s until 2006 as is an all steel built in 1928 by The Uxbridge Steel Barrel Co. NB George was kept at Preston Brook, near the tunnel during the Lymm breach years. It would not have been the ‘Roland’ that you recall becoming stuck at New Lane when it was electrified as the Roland was on the bank by Trencherfield Mill at Wigan by the mid 1980’s and had stopped operating as a restraint bet some time before that with Frank Boothby operating the ‘Roland Botel’ with the Ainscoughs boat the ‘Ambush’ with the conversion having been put on previously (For Mike Sampson ?) to operate as a trip boat in amongst other places in the Liverpool docks, the New Lane bridge was electrified in the 1990’s. (IIRC) – May be in the very late 1980’s