Tom Puddings on the GU..no, not quite.

[matty40s]

Charlottes Arts on Hyperion has an Armstrong Sid issue, and needs a tow, with Hyades following of course.

So who better than Towcester to tow her through the great Northants divide under Blisworth Tunnel.

 

[David Mack]

Bet that came as a surprise to anyone they passed in the tunnel!

[stagedamager]

Parts have been sent and hopefully arrive today..... a fuel pipe failed at the injector pump. Luckily we had a few lying around!!

[roland elsdon]

Just as well they had 2 sets of cross straps😁

[Tam & Di]

I suspect that pretty much every boat has been paired with every other boat at some point in its life (there's a project there for someone with time on their hands 😃), but here are a couple of earlier Towcester and Hyades pairings.

 

Tam

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2021 by Tam & Di

[Pluto]

Compartment boats being built for the GUC on Feb. 10th 1933, in the plating shop at Messrs. Peter Brotherhoods Works' showing 4 compartment boats in final stage of construction. Leader boat can be seen lying on one side. Photo from Waterways Archive, BW192/3/2/1/1/17.

[Stroudwater1]

9 hours ago, David Mack said:

Bet that came as a surprise to anyone they passed in the tunnel!

One of the biggest we had was meeting President towing Kildare through Wast Hill- plenty of smoke but little noise- rather surreal and unexpected after seeing a reasonably standard boat coming towards us . There was no whistling which was probably just as well.