stagedamager Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 it was last on a few weeks ago for 9k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedwheel Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) One "0" too many. I'll give you £20 for 1645 and you can buy Hazel! Edited May 28, 2013 by Speedwheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagedamager Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 ha ha, and the rest!! maybe when she's done we'll talk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedwheel Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Not a narrowboat (but almost historic) I want need this. http://motorboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=260598 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timleech Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 SPECK (Station Boat), curiously listed as 'Built by Norwich and sons, 1929', actually of course by Yarwoods of Northwich. Incidentally the fourth boat from the right in my pic in the 'Hyperion' thread. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ibis Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 (edited) SPECK (Station Boat), curiously listed as 'Built by Norwich and sons, 1929', actually of course by Yarwoods of Northwich. Incidentally the fourth boat from the right in my pic in the 'Hyperion' thread. Tim Ah yes, Speck. Has been for sale for quite a while now, since last Summer if I recall. We know the owner, as it's based in Cambridge, and when we said we were after an historic boat our local friends assumed we'd buy this one. But it wasn't for us, we always wanted a motor. It's a nice boat inside, but it isn't half wide. It had spread, and was then overplated by a competent but not historic specialist boatbuilder. It's well over 7ft wide, I think. Edited June 26, 2013 by Black Ibis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 . But it wasn't for us, we always wanted a motor. Er, it has one: a 1970s Perkins, according to the spec(k). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ibis Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 Er, it has one: a 1970s Perkins, according to the spec(k). I'm using the word in the historic boat sense i.e. to mean "as opposed to a butty", rather than using it to mean whether or not it has an engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardf Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 Not sure if this has been mentioned before - but RIGAL is on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Narrow-Boat-Canal-Boat-Barge-Working-Boat-70ft-Small-Woolwich-/151068772072?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item232c6686e8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ibis Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 (edited) Not sure if this has been mentioned before - but RIGAL is on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Narrow-Boat-Canal-Boat-Barge-Working-Boat-70ft-Small-Woolwich-/151068772072?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item232c6686e8 On the Duck too. http://www.apolloduck.co.uk/advert.phtml?id=304566 Gorgeous. Edited June 26, 2013 by Black Ibis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Not sure if this has been mentioned before - but RIGAL is on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Narrow-Boat-Canal-Boat-Barge-Working-Boat-70ft-Small-Woolwich-/151068772072?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item232c6686e8 Claims to be 70 ft 1935 boat, but Rigal was originally a butty, and IIRC was about 50 ft when first motorised and converted. So there must be some rather less historic steelwork there, and those rivets around the stern were probably once washers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timleech Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Claims to be 70 ft 1935 boat, but Rigal was originally a butty, and IIRC was about 50 ft when first motorised and converted. So there must be some rather less historic steelwork there, and those rivets around the stern were probably once washers! There's something not 'right' about the stern, the cabin looks too tall at the back but it may be that the stern comes in too much before the counter, making the cabin too narrow at the back at gunwale level. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted June 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Claims to be 70 ft 1935 boat, but Rigal was originally a butty, and IIRC was about 50 ft when first motorised and converted. So there must be some rather less historic steelwork there, and those rivets around the stern were probably once washers! Yes, the back end of original Rigal is itself now pointing the other way to form the front end of another full cabined boat. There is, from memory, still quite a lot of Rigal in that other boat, so I doubt more than about 40 feet of this Rigal can actually be from the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanM Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 And Hazel sold.... not to me though... Maybe to this guy? http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=428&p=1094806 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timleech Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Another oddity has just percolated through to my consciousness. The rear edge of the back cabin sides carry the 'bolt heads' which were used on a Northwich cabin to hold the steel cabin sides to the oak framing. Trouble is, it's a Woolwich-built boat, and they had timber cabins. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted June 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 There's something not 'right' about the stern, the cabin looks too tall at the back but it may be that the stern comes in too much before the counter, making the cabin too narrow at the back at gunwale level. Tim Assuming these two are about right for a "Small Woolwich"..... then to my eye this simply isn't....... I always find it hard to put my finger on why, but I think the hull shape is not particularly faithful to an original motor, and that hasn't helped. But to me the cabin sides somehow seem to vertical, even at the engine room end. Maybe not ? But it doesn't ring true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Tee Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Maybe its the camera angle, but the stern of Rigal looks more 'pointed' than that of the others in the photo's. And there is very little, if any, upsweep on the counter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 There are a great many differences if you look. The way the tiller attaches to the rudder post for instance When was Rigal re-sterned? Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Reed Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 And where does the figure of 55K come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted June 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 (edited) When was Rigal re-sterned? Dunno, but the HNBC page implies the original butty was made into two boats in excess of 10 years ago, (click right hand side for images of both bits). The pictures of the back end don't reflect at least two full repaints it has had in different colours since. And where does the figure of 55K come from? Those trying to sell it! (Actually it is £64,950 on "The Duck"!) EDIT: Useless related facts..... Rigal is one of the many names that the GUCCCo managed to mispell when the boats were first built. The actual star is called Rigel. Edited June 27, 2013 by alan_fincher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Well it may be the conversion in image resizing that makes it look 'pinched', but if not that's an unfortunate result. It doesn't follow as a true small Woolwich motor copy either way. But if that's what the punter ordered . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 (edited) Useless related facts.....Rigal is one of the many names that the GUCCCo managed to mispell when the boats were first built. The actual star is called Rigel. Yes, I used to meet a chap called Rigel in my local down in Surrey - his father had been a keen astronomer! Regarding the boat's shape, does it not look slightly "wrong" because the upsweep of the cabin follows the upsweep of the hull (so far, so good) but, unlike Callisto and Themis, the hull has very little upsweep, hence the cabin doesn't either. Probably better, though, to have too little cabin upsweep than too much - we have all seen boats with grotesquely upswept rear cabins like a duck's arse. Edited June 27, 2013 by Athy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted June 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Well it may be the conversion in image resizing that makes it look 'pinched'..................... Don't think so...... Two of my own...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timleech Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Assuming these two are about right for a "Small Woolwich"..... I hope the Themis' cabin is not too far wrong, I did the steelwork when I had the boat, based on the original timber framing Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence Hogg Posted June 27, 2013 Report Share Posted June 27, 2013 Dunno, but the HNBC page implies the original butty was made into two boats in excess of 10 years ago, (click right hand side for images of both bits). The pictures of the back end don't reflect at least two full repaints it has had in different colours since. Those trying to sell it! (Actually it is £64,950 on "The Duck"!) EDIT: Useless related facts..... Rigal is one of the many names that the GUCCCo managed to mispell when the boats were first built. The actual star is called Rigel. The front end was converted into a tug for the (late in the case of Richard) Richard and Jane Bird of London IWA. That was back in 1982, the boat came to a rally at Mile End where we were exhibitors. Don't think so...... Two of my own...... The worst thing about this conversion is the swans neck, its completely the wrong shape for a small Woolwich, they were in essence a "S" shape not a "Z". The hull and counter do not sweep up as they should but at the end of the day it is a converted butty not an original built motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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