Ray T Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Dover has been refitted and is back on the market http://www.londontideway.com/boats-dover.html The interior seems to be more acceptable than Alan Herd's effort. IMHO anyway. I believe one issue was that to get from the counter to the "new" living space one had to walk along the gunwhale. I cannot see from the pictures if that has been addressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagedamager Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 120k? Jog on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Stripped out, it would make quite a good coal boat... MtB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Didn't Alan F want a converted ex working boat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Didn't Alan F want a converted ex working boat? He's too busy making an offer on TEBAY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted September 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 He's too busy making an offer on TEBAY. No he wants a "proper" narrow boat engine, which Tebay doesn't have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo No2 Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) So I'm confused now. Were any/some/most all of these Yarwoods built boats built of composite construction or not? I always thought they were, but received a swift rebuke from someone when I suggested it not long ago. If I think about it, isn't it one of these boats in the duplicate lock at Stoke Bruerne top, where the weighing machine has been removed from. From memory that has a rivetted metal bottom that doesn't give the impression of having ever replaced a wooden one. Alan - the boat in the dry lock in Stoke Bruerne is the former station boat May. Someone on here may know her history. I think Tebay may also have been from the same 'stable' as May but I stand to be corrected. Edited September 26, 2014 by Leo No2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) No he wants a "proper" narrow boat engine, which Tebay doesn't have! Nowt wrong with a Kelvin J3. Lovely engines (imo of course). I know what your going to say. Edited September 26, 2014 by mark99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted September 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Nowt wrong with a Kelvin J3. Lovely engines (imo of course). I know what your going to say. But never a narrow boat engine, except in leisure boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete harrison Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) Alan - the boat in the dry lock in Stoke Bruerne is the former station boat May. Someone on here may know her history. I think Tebay may also have been from the same 'stable' as May but I stand to be corrected. Both MAY and TEBAY are from the same 'stable', with MAY being the older (launched 02 November 1928 - Yard No. 381) and TEBAY marginally the younger (launched 14 September 1929 - Yard No. 387). edit - The last of the L.M.S.R. boats from this 'stable' was RAVE (completed 02 January 1939 - Yard No. 633), but the last narrow boat they built for L.M.S.R. was the tug SANDBACH (completed 26 February 1946 - Yard No. 779). Edited September 26, 2014 by pete harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Tee Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Dover has been refitted and is back on the market http://www.londontideway.com/boats-dover.html Does that price include skipper, mooring and hostess (not necessarily in that order). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted September 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 120k? Jog on! Surely a joke? Fit out looks nothing special at all does it? (By which I mean it is probably fine, but what makes this boat worth twice other boats for God's sake?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Surely a joke? Fit out looks nothing special at all does it? (By which I mean it is probably fine, but what makes this boat worth twice other boats for God's sake?) I can only suggest it's attempting to trade on its celebrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuscan Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Price is on a par with many other new boats or in fact lower , whether she sells is more about the quality of the fit out and the power system designs I expect. And of course whether there's an odd ball that wants something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenC Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 I can only suggest it's attempting to trade on its celebrity. In that case Banstead now on the market for £150k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Owen Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Is that celebrity or notoriety ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FadeToScarlet Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Price is on a par with many other new boats or in fact lower , whether she sells is more about the quality of the fit out and the power system designs I expect. And of course whether there's an odd ball that wants something different. I think they based the price on the style of the conversion- £1000 for every centimetre the "top plank" is wide! In that case Banstead now on the market for £150k Is she included? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 In that case Banstead now on the market for £150k I should be passing her on Sunday if it's at home. Note Banstead is our nearest town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenC Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 If I can track her down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) Completely Just discovered Ben Fogle is Julia Foster's son. Ben Fogle, with his mother, actress Julia Foster Edited September 26, 2014 by Ray T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenC Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 I should be passing her on Sunday if it's at home. Note Banstead is our nearest town. Be out and about one day this weekend, but not far from home, give me a wave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Mecca is currently moored in Loughborough and carries a maroon livery and looks very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenC Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) Posted twice! Completely Just discovered Ben Fogle is Julia Foster's son. She hasn't changed that much. So back to that £150k Ben Fogle, with his mother, actress Julia Foster Edited September 26, 2014 by BenC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete harrison Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Mecca is currently moored in Loughborough and carries a maroon livery and looks very good. And the more boats that carry a suspect livery help to perpetuate it into fact. This was very similar to when owners in the 1970's and 1980's, including museums, started painting G.U.C.C.Co. Ltd. narrow boats in the 'coronation' livery but with the lettering of the two tone blue livery. It has taken years of convincing current owners to change this and things are now improving as more 'coronation' liveried boats have the correct lettering - not helped at all by Colours of the Cut that illustrated it incorrectly when first published in Waterways World then again when published in book format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabcat Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Does the back cabin shape look dead weird too, or is it me? Or perhaps it's the camera angle... MtB It looks like a ski jump. The cabin rises, the hull doesn't. I wouldn't say it looks weird so much as it looks bloody awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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