Anyone recall Allbutt boats from Trent area from 1960s?

[Joseph]

Hello everyone

 

An idle query, and I'm not sure if I should post it here, as it is about pleasure boats. A very helpful set of replies to my posting about Norman Anglin, so you never know. Well...

 

My late father started boating in the 1960s, and bought a boat called Peel Castle from Nantwich, in 1965. This was a wooden boat, two cabins and outboard, built by (45-year old memory from childhood here!!) L G Allbutt from the Derby area. I think that he sold it in 1967, and it left Nantwich. There was a similar boat, Kimrick, also moored at Nantwich, for a longer period, and we once saw another Allbutt (?) boat, but that is all that I recall.

 

No doubt a marine ply boat has long since gone to its watery grave, but I just wondered if this boat and especially Allbutt boats rang any bells with anyone?

 

Fascinated if anyone has any idea about this. I have probably been looking in the wrong places in my idle search.

 

Take care, everyone

 

Joseph