Photos of your boat.

[junior]

Looks beautiful there. Shame there's so many locks to get there and back again.

[dmr]

Same day, other end of the boat? Another nice bit of roping up round that mooring bollard 😀  Thats looks like us and the dog walking back to the boat past lock 36, but I can't remember what we were doing.

[Francis Herne]

Not mine as such, but I haven't even finished painting the bloody thing and they drag it away to be filled with muddy scrap!

 

Last photo for 'before'. Not shown are the four wheelbarrows of mud that George and I shovelled out from under the floor.

 

 

Logo courtesy of a lot of masking tape and some white Hammerite. The paint tin in shot was the correct radius for the outside frame corners...

Edited March 14, 2025 by Francis Herne
added another photo

[dmr]

17 hours ago, Tonka said:

Another one for @dmr

 

 

and so it goes on. 

I reckon this is us at the same location though a couple of our portholes have turned into bus windows 😀. All this is coming from the Rochdale Canal Facebook page. This group is the efforts of a single canal fanatic who is trying to generate enthusiasm to restore the old canal arm into Rochdale before the property developers get it. There is quite a bit of interesting stuff on his group so its worth a look.  Not to be confused with the Rochdale Canal Boaters group which is sadly getting less well used.

[Montyburns1982]

Here's my 'work in progress'. 1989 Viking 26 Centre Cockpit with a Honda 15hp Outboard.

 

Originally was going to be on hardstanding for a few weeks whilst I 'fettled' it. That's before I saw the atrocious electrics and decided to rip out the mouldy bathroom, as well as having to fix all the leaking saloon windows and deal with some minor osmotic blistering. The engine was also filled with scale from years of being neglected and needed a full service.

 

11 months later and I've realised I'm in no rush, if it takes another 6 months to get her how I want her, it's not a big deal. I bought it as a little project and I've enjoyed doing the old gal up.

 

Will almost seem a shame to go boating when I've finished! 😃

Edited July 17, 2025 by Montyburns1982

[Sid Charles]

My Boat and from Google Earth

[RussF]

Here's a recently finished-ish (waiting for door inserts) restoration of a well respected boat builder's first prototype, NB Baron. 1978 Braunston Canal Services first boat they built from scratch, 70 foot, long swim and beautiful trad hull. Dagenham era RN DM2, 24 inch propeller, recently restored (with help from a few other old school names) at cost of my near sanity and marriage. It was worth it. She's not for sale under any circumstances 🙂 wave if you see me

Edited January 22 by RussF

[bigcol]

Lovely boat, you really brought her out of her self.

ready for another 100 years of service.