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Nah, this is the Oberon...

Roland, if it's a standard H series Lister the rotation will be anti clock looking at the flywheel end and as I said earlier, five gets you ten the A127 has a clockwise fan on it. The alternator won't cool as well as it should. Take a look and I'll have my five next time I see you. David

Roland, five gets you ten the alternator has the wrong handed fan on it David

Could the first one be Rowington embankment? Canal may be a bit wide for there but it looks familiar.

Not that you should know but there was a pretty strong hint... Not quite what I had in mind but I might get banned....

RTFQ

Clue: it's tied at Brinklow.

I'd have to look out some old photos to confirm it, but from memory what you see of the stern end above water is more or less as original with the addition of the lower two guards; below water there are the usual sole plate/uxter plates & swim. The stem post on t'other end is an addition as both ends were identical I think. It probably had pintles for a rudder at both ends originally, removed for obvious reasons.

It was bought from the Thames Conservancy/EA by Greg Klaes. We towed it from the yard at Osney to Clattercote in one epic day which ended about three the following morning, using the trip boat Jericho. Subsequently used for a few trips in the early eighties (the River tour would date one of them) for kids from his school. He named it Pumpkin (for obvious reasons if you know Greg), ex A89. He sold it to Eric.

5 gets you 10 it's slipping in stern gear. You can adjust it by taking the top off the box and winding down the adjusting screw a little bit. Don't overdo it or the stud will rip out of the bottom half of the gearbox casing (don't ask...)

Sitting drinking tea with Rex Wain, he thinks it was sold via Go Industry to the Green Barge Company(?) and subsequently scrapped.

For one man's opinion of the handling (and other) characteristics of Joshers one can only refer the OP to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5XVu_9l9Zo

Ahem...... http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=80779

"Rudder forces aren't consistent and change with speed. Typically the right arm aches a lot more than the left on an evening after cruising. At close to 90kg I'm not lightly built and it takes my full strength and full rudder deflection at times with very little effect." My antennae pricked up at this earlier and since nobody else has bitten I will: When I'm steering the tiller doesn't swing outside the slide runners much, and very rarely outside the handrails. Full rudder deflection? Never, it's a waste of time and effort. A group* of us were in The Folly last night & this thread came up several times with varying degrees of incredulity/head shaking/nodding sagely/choose your own reaction. At risk of causing offense, here's one summary, related to me by Ian Sly a long time ago: "So Ian, what makes your boat go so well?" "There's four things make a boat go well." "There's the right engine; the right blade; the right hull shape and then there's the most important thing of all..." (Leaning inwards to catch this pearl of wisdom) "Ooh, what's that Ian?" "The twat with his hand on the speedwheel" *collective boat owning/steering/building experience approaching the age of the universe

The original owners chose 36 as it was the 36th boat Dave Harris had built.

Can't find a decent photo of the completed boat, instead you'll have to imagine the boat in the first photo with the paint job in the second....

2) While I was writing my post someone blew it and spoiled the fun: "To see a Dave Harris stern with this offending vertical post before the rudder there is another photo here (that I daren't copy but you can see for yourselves 1) I'll see what I can find in the album to upload to photobucket.

Correct, same hull builder as Cobbett. I don't actually recall seeing it out of the water but must have done while it was being built. The hull builder has vast experience of building canal boats and is generally well regarded - there is a small bit of understatement there. Although other people might choose to build the skeg differently (Simon & Steve at Brinklow Boat Services for instance) I think the hull builder had built a few without any problems, see Wrigglefingers comment. I do love everyone being coy about the name of the hull builder. I helped the original owners pick the boat up from Norton Canes where the hull was taken for grit blasting following launch and steered it round most of the Wyrley & Essington/Daw End Branch/Rushall Canal/Tame Valley and apart from smacking the coping coming off the Rushall Canal (it picked up a bladefull so didn't hold back, that's my excuse) don't recall thinking "this handles really badly, I'd rather be on the back of a proper one"*. I steered it on a few subsequent occasions - surprised the owners by how quickly it went round the bends with the Frodingham piles near Mancetter - and again, wouldn't say it handled badly. Quite. It went like train from my memory of it. This thread is a bit cryptic but I gather from one comment it now has a four bat blade on it. This was not the case when first launched: *which I would, obviously

Quite. The kids used to ask me which task they should be doing, my answer was that we should practice the boating equivalent of totaalvoetbal: work out which job needs doing next, work out who's closest to the location it needs doing in, if that's you, go do it. Once they got it, it was a joy to watch, much like Holland '74. The acronym IPDE in this clip sums it up rather well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1Y_Uv99Z4

Alan it is perfectly possible to get up or down Hatton in 1 hour 30 minutes with a pair of boats, I've done it in that sort of time several times, and that was usually dragging a heavy arsed Josher motor boat. Having a pair makes it easier going uphill as you can rack the paddles up quickly. Having 24 kids helps too. Next time you see Simon ask him about taking France & Plover down Hatton using both engines and see how quickly it can really be done. I was once asked by a group of passengers if I was up for going up & down one evening as we were tied in Warwick - I didn't think Pete Ballard would be terribly impressed so turned that one down.

There are two connections on the back of the alternator +ve and -ve and three AC taps. Just use one of the ac taps to drive a changeover relay coil; the relay common to switched 12V off the ignition switch and the NC to drive the lamp.

It is Brinklow Junction in the sectional appendix. Of course the section from Rugby to Brinklow Is odd in that the tracks are paired by direction but with the down fast line on the outside of the down slow. The up lines being the more normal way round with the fast on the inside, as is the case for both up &down lines from Attleborough northwards. The use of Rugby's island platform for stopping trains in the down direction is the reason for this.

Economics Pete. Use the front topcloth folded in the approved manner and watch it rot in five years.Replacement cost: £x. Use a short cloth over the cratch etc. Replacement cost: £y. x>>y. What would you do? That said my short(plastic) cloth has been on ~25years.

The boat was stuck 3 parts of the way into the lock with the bottom gates open. The gates were back into the recesses and the pound was full - it certainly was by the time I'd set up a rolling wave up & down the pound, a back wave as Tam calls it. Unfortunately the only boat available to snatch it out was having to do it going backwards and I'm not sure the steerer was particularly ept. I was surprised it didn't pop out the amount the fore end was rising when we racked the paddles up the third time. I was on my way to work so left it to Steve Powell.

It's a springer(!) going up. Asked the owner if it had been overplated, he didn't know. I took Barrow through this lock last weekend and barely touched the sides so unless something dramatic has happened in the last week the walls haven't moved. Little boats are usually the problem at this lock. Tried setting up a standing wave in the pound but it wasn't shifting despite rising a long way. Not helped by the boat being on the tilt. Looks like a paddle & tirfor job.