Boat Lift Windsor '79

[mark99]

[GUMPY]

 

Was still there 5 years ago

 

 

 

Windsor
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4jCvGvtbXuRzTjUi8

 

 

[Mike Tee]

The jags gone!

[GUMPY]

15 minutes ago, Mike Tee said:

The jags gone!

Rusted into oblivion 

[magnetman]

Tom Jones Boatyard immediately below Romney lock. 

 

The lease for the site was recently taken over by the rather iconic Steve Bil, wife and son Charlie. 

 

Nice little yard that one. It is where my boats will be coming out when I get a round tuit.

 

They have a 30 tonne travel hoist but a beam limit of about 11ft. 

 

 

[Tonka]

18 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Tom Jones Boatyard immediately below Romney lock. 

 

The lease for the site was recently taken over by the rather iconic Steve Bil, wife and son Charlie. 

 

Nice little yard that one. It is where my boats will be coming out when I get a round tuit.

 

They have a 30 tonne travel hoist but a beam limit of about 11ft. 

 

 

What is iconic about him

[magnetman]

Anyone helming a Henley umpire launch is an icon.

 

 

 

More up to date photo of the lifting area

 

 

 

[Tonka]

10 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Anyone helming a Henley umpire launch is an icon.

 

 

 

More up to date photo of the lifting area

 

 

 

But where is the lift that the O/P put a photo of. Has it been replaced by the blue one.

 

 

And with regard to the yard Its not unusual 

[magnetman]

I'm not sure what they have done with the old lift. I think it was still in the yard possibly used for transporting lighter boats to the sheds. 

 

I think they have both but not sure. 

 

 

[Chris Lowe]

2 hours ago, magnetman said:

Nice little yard that one. It is where my boats will be coming out when I get a round tuit.

Here you go.

 

I know that crane well, Romney lock & island where a favourite when I was at school in the 70's, my mate & me would sit on the island counting Caribbean cruisers.

[Tonka]

5 minutes ago, Chris Lowe said:

Here you go.

 

I know that crane well, Romney lock & island where a favourite when I was at school in the 70's, my mate & me would sit on the island counting Caribbean cruisers.

You probably remember the old lock keeper who used to be there,  Fred Smith and his wife Mary I believe. Used to sell ice creams out of their porch