Conway wooden boat no 19

[BWM]

13 hours ago, glynnbarry123 said:

Thanks will look at it I will be getting canvases b4 summer I hope

Great to see a boat returning to form, and all the work will be worth it in the end. 

[glynnbarry123]

Hi everyone Hull finished on Conway and front and sides all done just work on outside left is back of the boat

[Bee]

Excellent and congrats. Not a job many would tackle. Makes a bit of pitting look like very small beer. 

[Rob-M]

10 hours ago, glynnbarry123 said:

Hi everyone Hull finished on Conway and front and sides all done just work on outside left is back of the boat

Was it just listed on eBay for fun then earlier in the month...?

[glynnbarry123]

Had problem with that vacine injection gave me blood clotts photonic etc took my licence of me said I be out work 3 months so I had no choice put my mg up my truck and boat to get funds to pay mortgage but dident get what I wanted so of it came anyway back at work now was only of 2 months

[Rob-M]

4 minutes ago, glynnbarry123 said:

Had problem with that vacine injection gave me blood clotts photonic etc took my licence of me said I be out work 3 months so I had no choice put my mg up my truck and boat to get funds to pay mortgage but dident get what I wanted so of it came anyway back at work now was only of 2 months

Good to see you are able to carry on working on the boat and you're back at work.

[glynnbarry123]

Got lot of work done while of lot of painting

[Bee]

That's rotten luck. Hope you are fit and well.

[Jrtm]

Good work on the boat, I'm really glad to see someone else put in the effort by themselves and get stuck in and save a wooden boat rather than the oooooo it's 100k job that.

You should be really proud of what you have done!

Glad your also back to work!

[glynnbarry123]

7 hours ago, billybobbooth said:

Good work on the boat, I'm really glad to see someone else put in the effort by themselves and get stuck in and save a wooden boat rather than the oooooo it's 100k job that.

You should be really proud of what you have done!

Glad your also back to work!

Thanks for your interest but it's been a pleasure doing this and enjoyed every moment 

On 29/06/2021 at 09:01, Bee said:

That's rotten luck. Hope you are fit and well.

Yes back to normal and thanks

[merline]

Just discovered this thread, fantastic work, congratulations!

Do keep us posted....

[glynnbarry123]

Thanks i will

[mike boston]

To glynbarry123    are you still seeking history of Conway ?   I travelled many miles on Conway back in the 80s  and I am still in touch with the owner at the time who will have many photos

 

Mike boston

[David Mack]

@glynnbarry123 hasn't visited the forum since March 2022.

[Francis Herne]

Conway was at the Lymm transport festival in June 2024.

 

 

[mike boston]

This is not the wooden Conway I was referring to this appears to be a steel boat but thanks for your help in tracing Conway   Regards Mike 

[stagedamager]

looks very wooden to me, id say that is 100% Conway.

[mike boston]

If you view the previous pictures posted around 2020-21 of the  front end of Conway you will see that is very different from the picture at Lymm. Regards Mike 

[Francis Herne]

I can assure you it's the same, wooden, Conway.

Sadly I don't have a better photo of the fore end but the counter is very distinctive!

 

I can't see what you think is different about the fore end that's visible at all in my not-so-good photo, besides some newly-painted cants and a lamp and horn.

The unusually-shaped block under the deckboard is still there, the painting and general shape is the same, and the hull is mostly just black fuzzy pixels because my phone camera at the time didn't do shadows!

Note that the stem post is cropped off in mine (oops).

Edited April 16 by Francis Herne

[alan_fincher]

Yes, I would be amazed if there were multiple shortened wooden tar boats called Conway.

 

Please bear in mind that when boats like this get very substantial, or perhaps even total, rebuilding of the front end this often results in a very different shape from what went before.

 

For example our local wooden boat restorer is Jem Bates.  It has been suggested that whatever the original boat, each rebuild leaves his yard with a distinctive Jem Bates bow!  I can kind of see this.

[MtB]

52 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

Yes, I would be amazed if there were multiple shortened wooden tar boats called Conway.

 

Please bear in mind that when boats like this get very substantial, or perhaps even total, rebuilding of the front end this often results in a very different shape from what went before.

 

For example our local wooden boat restorer is Jem Bates.  It has been suggested that whatever the original boat, each rebuild leaves his yard with a distinctive Jem Bates bow!  I can kind of see this.

 

 

Ah yes, the "I've just found an ancient copper rove in the mud, so I'm restoring it back into the original boat" effect! 

[mike boston]

Regarding narrow boat Conway. On reviewing the photos l think you are correct it is the wooden boat Conway. Would anyone know where the boat is located and who the owner is. The reason l ask is because I have lots of information about its past history.

5 hours ago, Francis Herne said:

I can assure you it's the same, wooden, Conway.

Sadly I don't have a better photo of the fore end but the counter is very distinctive!

 

I can't see what you think is different about the fore end that's visible at all in my not-so-good photo, besides some newly-painted cants and a lamp and horn.

The unusually-shaped block under the deckboard is still there, the painting and general shape is the same, and the hull is mostly just black fuzzy pixels because my phone camera at the time didn't do shadows!

Note that the stem post is cropped off in mine (oops).

 

[Bee]

If i had to rebuild the fore end of a wooden narrowboat it would look a bit like a very big punt