Have you seen this boat?

[merline]

In search of Iona, a 60ft Bantock bros conversion, last known to be sold to someone in Yorkshire about a year or so ago, I am a previous owner just interested in her wellbeing, would like to chat with new owners 

This pic is most up to date I could find, from an expired Apollo Duck ad 

Thank you! 

[Canal321]

If it was still on that mooring in November 21 maybe it got moved with the others.

https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/113280-mersey-and-wye-ll-shortboats/

[TheBiscuits]

3 minutes ago, Canal321 said:

If it was still on that mooring in November 21 maybe it got moved with the others.

https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/113280-mersey-and-wye-ll-shortboats/

 

I thought it might be that one, but it had been there a lot longer than a year and isn't in Yorkshire.

 

The boat definitely isn't there anymore since the tugs and crane came ...

[merline]

I got that information from the people I sold her to, they said they sold it "about" a year ago to someone in Yorkshire,  of course it could have been a lot longer than a year and she may not be in Yorkshire!

Anyone know what became of the five boats from that mooring? 

[David Mack]

14 minutes ago, merline said:

Anyone know what became of the five boats from that mooring? 

Possibly here.

[merline]

And where is that please?😁

[David Mack]

Greenwalls Farm, Dodleston, as suggested in the thread linked above.

Edited April 28, 2022 by David Mack

[merline]

Thanks to the leads given here and confirmation from members of the leeds and liverpool Facebook group I am pretty sure Iona was one of the five removed from Burscough by CRT, however on contacting CBS I am told that she has never been at their Greenwalls farm site...

So the mystery continues,  anyone else out there recognize this boat? 

[MtB]

5 hours ago, merline said:

So the mystery continues,  anyone else out there recognize this boat? 

 

 

Hmmm interesting. Your bow looks awfully like one of mine. I wonder if yours is the long lost opposite end of mine, a converted Stuarts and Lloyds tube boat.

 

[merline]

17 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Hmmm interesting. Your bow looks awfully like one of mine. I wonder if yours is the long lost opposite end of mine, a converted Stuarts and Lloyds tube boat.

 

I believe it was a GWR dayboat, I picked that up somewhere but I don't remember where.....

[David Mack]

10 hours ago, MtB said:

 

 

Hmmm interesting. Your bow looks awfully like one of mine. I wonder if yours is the long lost opposite end of mine, a converted Stuarts and Lloyds tube boat.

 

I've come across double-ended BCN dayboats with two 'sterns', but never one with two bows!

[magnetman]

4 hours ago, David Mack said:

I've come across double-ended BCN dayboats with two 'sterns', but never one with two bows!

The bow section in the photo is from a single ended horse drawn boat. It's a bantock by the look of it but not one of the early ones as they had D strakes rather than the bulb plate rubbing strakes.