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alan_fincher

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I'm told Sudbury is once again up for sale, but I have not so far seen it on the Internet.

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CORRECTION! - See below - it seems I have probably been misinformed!

AS you were!

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3 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

On Facebook:
 

https://www.facebook.com/100008530182737/posts/2203474026613582/?d=n

 

 

2 hours ago, Athy said:

Looks a neat little job, from the one photo which she has published. Based on a BCN boat (or part of one) perhaps?


It is surely the boat once owned by Henk (LuctorEtEmergo?) of this forum, but much reduced in length?

It's a strange solution to repairing an historic that needs work to cut 27 feet out of it.  Was the remaining 41 feet in good order, then?

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1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:

I'm told Sudbury is once again up for sale, but I have not so far seen it on the Internet.

Hi Alan,

 

I am not sure if there is much truth in this rumour, I feel it may have come about because someone recently commented on a facebook brokerage advert of mine from about 4 years ago, which put the advert onto a number of peoples timelines.

 

Sarah

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8 minutes ago, sarahavfc said:

Hi Alan,

 

I am not sure if there is much truth in this rumour, I feel it may have come about because someone recently commented on a facebook brokerage advert of mine from about 4 years ago, which put the advert onto a number of peoples timelines.

 

Sarah

Ah,

The rumour was put to me by someone I assumed would know, but from what you are saying, I suspect you are right!

I'll edit my post accordingly!
 

43 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Heart of Gold, was it? 

In fact the advert actually says it was!

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19 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

Ah,

The rumour was put to me by someone I assumed would know, but from what you are saying, I suspect you are right!

I'll edit my post accordingly!
 

In fact the advert actually says it was!

 

Really? They must have changed it! Earlier on it said the boat was called "Torak". 

 

 

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2 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

I'm told Sudbury is once again up for sale, but I have not so far seen it on the Internet.

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CORRECTION! - See below - it seems I have probably been misinformed!

AS you were!

Just to quash the rumour, as the current owner of Sudbury, she is most definitely NOT for sale and we intend to keep her for a very long time!

Rob

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24 minutes ago, Rusty Rivet said:

Just to quash the rumour, as the current owner of Sudbury, she is most definitely NOT for sale and we intend to keep her for a very long time!

Rob

Apologies indeed.

My source was someone who generally knows these things, but he has clearly fallen into the trap Sarah mentioned about new comments reopening a several year old advert.

1 hour ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Really? They must have changed it! Earlier on it said the boat was called "Torak". 

 

 


Different boat!

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1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

What?

 

The advert says the changed the name from Heart of Gold to Torak whilst the shortening work was being done

 

You have confused me by quoting stuff that related to Sudbury, and had nowt to do with Heart of Gold / Torak.

I started a duff rumour about Sudbury, that had nothing to do with Torak.

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Just now, alan_fincher said:

You have confused me by quoting stuff that related to Sudbury, and had nowt to do with Heart of Gold / Torak.

I started a duff rumour about Sudbury, that had nothing to do with Torak.

 

What?!! Sudbury used to be Heart of Gold, you say?!

 

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1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That hare is already running.....

 

 

No Hare is a different boat altogether....

Just to confuse it was Hare's owner that suggested Sudbury was for sale!......

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...... which, to clarify, it isn't.

(Unlike Torak / Heart of Gold, which i, apparently....)

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It is surely the boat once owned by Henk (LuctorEtEmergo?) of this forum, but much reduced in length?

It's a strange solution to repairing an historic that needs work to cut 27 feet out of it.  Was the remaining 41 feet in good order, then?

That certainly looks like Henk's old boat, or most of it!  it was moored at Bradford on Avon when I saw it soon after Henk bought it, and it was a mess, It had suffered a major fire, and whilst the fore and aft sections were ok, the centre section had been badly distorted by the fire. Presumably, the latest survey has revealed damage that was too expensive or difficult to repair, so it has been removed to save the boat. I wonder if my old Engel Fridge is on board.

 

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https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/yarwoods-72-traditional/628196

 

Talking to a Bloke Today at Winkwell who is going to view this with the intention of using it as a Liveaboard , he already owns a 65ft Liverpool Boat moored in the vicinity and reckons he wants the additional space as well as owning something with some character . the mind boggles sometimes especially regarding the additional space aspect .

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We tried to buy Rufford last time around,, but in the end it wnt to someone else.

Looking at the pictures the last owner seems to have done some fairly bizarre things, many of them not at all sympathetic to such an historic boat.


I assume the monstrous white box that is now trying to crowd out the HR2 is some kind of cocooned generator?  It has made a right mess up of that engine room.

 

Much like the boat we took on instead of Rufford, I fear whoever buys her will face a large list of things necessary to reverse what has been done to her in the last 4 or 5 years.  It was a project when we wanted to buy it - it looks to be more of a project now!

 

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