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Erebus  the ice breaker has been completely stripped  welded cleaned and under coated Foam sprayed and now ready for the fit out Where is the new little 24 horse fitted in the front end

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33 minutes ago, roland elsdon said:

Did she not have a cartridge start engine?

im back in uk looking for pictures of her. Came to mind in last few days. Not found yet they have been in store for 25 years.

Eight years ago I said This

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I've been following, and contributing to this thread due to knowing Erebus and Peter in the early 80s.

I've been meaning to ask why the title is Little Erebus?

I've always known it as Erebus is the Little just an affectation or an addition to its name or did The Ashby Canal Co. originally name it such and I've been wrong?

 

I can overthink things so it's probably just me.

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Nice little boat Erebus. I had a look at it in the mid 90s when it was for sale. At the time it had a beautiful  Ailsa Craig single right up the front and I remember a Taylor's gimballed paraffin cooker in the back cabin. Nicely done inside at the time. Cabin was a bit tall I thought liable to make the boat more tender but as the prop shaft went under all the accomodation I suppose it was necessary to have a tall cabin to get any internal headroom. 

No idea what the hull was like as it was in water. £9k at the time I think it was asking.  

As I was looking for a boat to live on I decided it was little small being only 5ft8 beam. And rather tender as well being an ice boat. 

 

Very nice little boat though. Good to see it restored. 

 

I remember Ivor Bachelor the coal boat man commenting on it having a tendency to get wet gunnels and back deck being so low in the water. I'd be tempted to fit some sort of raised edge around the bottom of the back doors if not already done to prevent water ingress. 

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Interesting to see this Erebus advert again 40 years on!   Going through some old papers today I came across possibly the last remaining copy of the "full descriptive particulars" together with a couple of drawings of the then layout.  The particulars note that ".. conversion was completed in 1979, since when EREBUS has completed an extensive journey around the canals of northern England".

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