ditchcrawler Posted March 31, 2022 Report Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) Cocked up and removed Edited March 31, 2022 by ditchcrawler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted April 6, 2022 Report Share Posted April 6, 2022 Boat sale - Erebus | ABC Boat Sales Erebus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted April 6, 2022 Report Share Posted April 6, 2022 41 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said: Boat sale - Erebus | ABC Boat Sales Erebus If Erebus had been for sale when I was looking to buy I would have been very tempted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted April 15, 2022 Report Share Posted April 15, 2022 ..What about a Yarwoods 70 ft Yarwoods 70 Traditional for sale UK, Yarwoods boats for sale, Yarwoods used boat sales, Yarwoods Narrow Boats For Sale The North - historic narrowboat - Apollo Duck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agg221 Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 On 15/04/2022 at 20:32, Tonka said: ..What about a Yarwoods 70 ft Yarwoods 70 Traditional for sale UK, Yarwoods boats for sale, Yarwoods used boat sales, Yarwoods Narrow Boats For Sale The North - historic narrowboat - Apollo Duck Coincidentally, I saw it yesterday at Ellesmere Port. Quite a good gathering there this year. Alec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted April 25, 2022 Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 A butty on the Duck For Sale: Mercury Converted Historic Horseboat - GBP 47,000 (apolloduck.net) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykaskin Posted April 25, 2022 Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said: A butty on the Duck For Sale: Mercury Converted Historic Horseboat - GBP 47,000 (apolloduck.net) Technically built as a horse boat, but would be a perfect partner for The North which was built at the same time but happened to get converted to a motor a few years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Schweizer Posted April 25, 2022 Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, mykaskin said: Technically built as a horse boat, but would be a perfect partner for The North which was built at the same time but happened to get converted to a motor a few years later. Mercury was Tom Lavender's old boat, It used to run carrying coal with Nutfield, captained by Ian McDonald in the 1990's. https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/mercury-0 Edited April 25, 2022 by David Schweizer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koukouvagia Posted April 25, 2022 Report Share Posted April 25, 2022 and here's a picture of Owl paired with Mercury when it was a camping boat. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland elsdon Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 How did those poor unfortunates ever survive. The safety elf would have a field day. Im sure most have been traumatised. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted April 26, 2022 Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 22 minutes ago, roland elsdon said: How did those poor unfortunates ever survive. The safety elf would have a field day. Im sure most have been traumatised. Don't ever let the safety elf see and inspect a lock, The elf would expire of an instant heart attack, probably after severing its fingers in the paddle gear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furnessvale Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 9 hours ago, MtB said: Don't ever let the safety elf see and inspect a lock, The elf would expire of an instant heart attack, probably after severing its fingers in the paddle gear. Stourport and a cyclist immediately comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 11 hours ago, roland elsdon said: How did those poor unfortunates ever survive. The safety elf would have a field day. Im sure most have been traumatised. They probably turned out like me as camping boats were my introduction to the wonderful world of canalling. Poor sods! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 Getting the job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland elsdon Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 A lot was lost with the demise of camping boats. Mostly caused by teacher comforts I think. On the other hand there would not have been Wfbco boats if the crews hadnt had to turn their talents to other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenataomm Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) My endearing memories of seeing camping boats in action mainly involve watching six blissful boy sprouts with their legs dangling over the front end as they watched a lock wall approaching. They obviously never introduced a badge for anticipating crushed limbs. I once observed a fascinating exercise reminiscent of an Eric Sykes film. A brood of youngsters heroically leapt the gap to the towpath, each brandishing a windlass. Falling over each other they ran up to the first Hillmorton Lock which was open and ready for them. Attacking the lock with gusto they slammed the gates closed in the face of their steerer and raised the paddles. Their mate swinging around on the tiller couldn't make himself heard above the noise of his hard reversing engine and could only watch on in dismay as his marauding charges turned their attention to the upper paddles while all leaning on the beam determined to force the gate backwards against the stop. Quickly giving that up as a bad job they galloped off like a herd of wildebeest to right any wrongs that may await them around the corner, the towpath behind them littered with lock keys. Edited April 27, 2022 by zenataomm Falolloping digits 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 3 hours ago, roland elsdon said: A lot was lost with the demise of camping boats. Mostly caused by teacher comforts I think. On the other hand there would not have been Wfbco boats if the crews hadnt had to turn their talents to other things. I know an ex-teacher who use to take kids on boats out of Birmingham. The paperwork was something else and he had to be a bit , shall we say , creative when filling it in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav and Pen Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 We used to have abet on turnaround day as the new passengers came on board as to which one of them would be first to fall in. Narrow bridge holes were the scariest places as they would come straight up out of the hold or have legs dangling over the cabin sides. What really finished us off was when the scouts decreed that the leader couldn’t sleep in the same place as the scouts and as we had steerers on the boats this couldn’t work. Photo going down Braunston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-B Posted May 5, 2022 Report Share Posted May 5, 2022 Just seen these for sale https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/yarwoods-70-traditional-for-sale/529956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWM Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 On 28/04/2022 at 15:59, Dav and Pen said: We used to have abet on turnaround day as the new passengers came on board as to which one of them would be first to fall in. Narrow bridge holes were the scariest places as they would come straight up out of the hold or have legs dangling over the cabin sides. What really finished us off was when the scouts decreed that the leader couldn’t sleep in the same place as the scouts and as we had steerers on the boats this couldn’t work. Photo going down Braunston Tadworth looking tidy there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix_V Posted May 14, 2022 Report Share Posted May 14, 2022 not quite historic https://www.interencheres.com/vehicules/peniche-de-transport-de-marchandises-308268/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav and Pen Posted May 14, 2022 Report Share Posted May 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Phoenix_V said: not quite historic https://www.interencheres.com/vehicules/peniche-de-transport-de-marchandises-308268/ 80m probably a bit big for conversion. Good looking barge who’s owners have clearly got into trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrowcycles Posted May 16, 2022 Report Share Posted May 16, 2022 Here's an interesting one.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294978494647?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RZMFLjamTZC&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=zAHicM3sQmO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted May 16, 2022 Report Share Posted May 16, 2022 1 hour ago, sparrowcycles said: Here's an interesting one.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294978494647?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RZMFLjamTZC&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=zAHicM3sQmO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Looks a bit wishful thinking on the price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted May 16, 2022 Report Share Posted May 16, 2022 Nice bit of history, but hull condition unknown and needs a complete refit, so price looks aspirational. More than 7 ft beam too, but without the internal space of a wide beam, so less appeal to canal buyers I suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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