Historic Boats for sale online

[stagedamager]

I think that's probably knocked about 12k off the price.....

[Liam]

2 minutes ago, stagedamager said:

I think that's probably knocked about 12k off the price.....

Was the asking price £11k ... ?

[Stroudwater1]

It’s only just gone down. We went past her 10 days ago when she was afloat and looking as she was last November, rather tatty and sad but signs of a nice boat there. 
 

This from November 2023

 

[alan_fincher]

3 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:

It’s only just gone down. We went past her 10 days ago when she was afloat and looking as she was last November, rather tatty and sad but signs of a nice boat there. 
 

This from November 2023

 

 

Blimey, that really is hogged!

[magnetman]

On 21/05/2024 at 13:07, stagedamager said:

... she's quite hogged ...

 

Not wrong!

[roland elsdon]

She was knackered when Ninian had her on the Kayes  arm in 1990s, so actually has done pretty well since.

[matty40s]

I think the couple that had the strange looking New Zealand rigger hull boat took a/the mooring there, and for some reason ended up with that boat instead as the bits on and surrounding it didnt change.

Maybe CRT wouldnt allow a wideboat there, but allowed them to have a narrow one there.

[DandV]

6 hours ago, matty40s said:

I think the couple that had the strange looking New Zealand rigger hull boat took a/the mooring there, and for some reason ended up with that boat instead as the bits on and surrounding it didnt change.

Maybe CRT wouldnt allow a wideboat there, but allowed them to have a narrow one there.

And what is a New Zealand rigger hull?

Not a term familiar to us here in New Zealand.

[Derek R.]

At a guess, I would consider a 'rigger' hull would be something with out-riggers such as the Polynesian Islanders (and others) would use. Hulls with out-riggers on one side or the other (or both). An imaginative mind might picture such 'out-riggers' to have helped stop Motor Vessel No. 6 from descending beneath the waves . . .

[matty40s]

3 hours ago, DandV said:

And what is a New Zealand rigger hull?

Not a term familiar to us here in New Zealand.

I think Derek may be more correct in his Polynesian attribution, it's a long way round there and gets a bit jumbled up now and again.

[Ray T]

3 hours ago, DandV said:

And what is a New Zealand rigger hull?

Not a term familiar to us here in New Zealand.

I heard it was based loosely on a South Sea Islands out rigger. It was built out of metal at The Warwickshire Fly Boat.
It was destined to be taken down the GU to be completed at a boatyard but never got there, it just languished around Radford Semele / Stockton / GU / Oxford Canal.

 

 

 

Edited May 23, 2024 by Ray T

[IanM]

21 minutes ago, Ray T said:

I heard it was based loosely on a South Sea Islands out rigger. It was built out of metal at The Warwickshire Fly Boat.
It was destined to be taken down the GU to be completed at a boatyard but never got there, it just languished around Radford Semele / Stockton / GU/ Oxford Canal.

 

 

It used to be around all the time but I've not seen it for several years now. 

[DandV]

No polynesian would have anything to do with such a monstrosity.

The original  polynesian voyaging canoes were often catamarans, two equal canoes about 60ft long separated by lashed cross beams. Boat that routinely made return voyages across vast expanses of ocean.

Local craft here in NZ were very largely single hulls, but some out riggers, (waka ama), with the out rigger, (ama), almost universally on the left, common with the rest of polynesia persisted until after arrival of the first settlers. 

But sometime after the initial arrivals our NZ  Maori seem to have abandoned catamarans as voyaging, and war  canoes,  instead favouring very large single hull canoes up to 130ft long. This was probably a reflection of the bigger trees available here. 

So nothing at all like that boat. 

 

 

28 minutes ago, IanM said:

 

It used to be around all the time but I've not seen it for several years now. 

Certainly saw it several times around Braunston Nspton on our travels but could see nothing NZ about it.

 

[Jon57]

On 13/05/2024 at 21:21, David Mack said:

We accompanied Gort up the Grand Union after the Diamond Jubilee Parade on the Thames in 2012. The owner is a lovely chap, and from spending a few days boating, and a couple of evenings in the pub with him, I would never have guessed he was a Peer of the Realm!

Just seen Gort. Lovely back cabin. You would get serious speedwheel head rash from it. 

[davidg]

16 minutes ago, Jon57 said:

Just seen Gort. Lovely back cabin. You would get serious speedwheel head rash from it. 

 

 

That's the gearwheel. It is removeable but leaves a nasty spiky bit sticking out instead😁

[furnessvale]

23 hours ago, davidg said:

 

That's the gearwheel. It is removeable but leaves a nasty spiky bit sticking out instead😁

A tennis ball would cure that!

[rivergate]

On 22/05/2024 at 22:15, roland elsdon said:

She was knackered when Ninian had her on the Kayes  arm in 1990s, so actually has done pretty well since.

I remember her down the Oxford with her full length cabin on....she was lovely.. Ninian was a nice guy as well...

[ditchcrawler]

How about a wooden boat on ebay 70ft Wooden OAK Canal Boat / Narrowboat / Historic vessel Restoration project | eBay

[MtB]

1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

How about a wooden boat on ebay 70ft Wooden OAK Canal Boat / Narrowboat / Historic vessel Restoration project | eBay

 

 

Extensively discussed in another thread. Just needs a new hull and a new cabin. A couple of weekends' work for someone of your abilities! 

[mykaskin]

On 23/05/2024 at 09:15, IanM said:

 

It used to be around all the time but I've not seen it for several years now. 

 

If there is only one of them, I saw it at Harkers on the bank about 4 years ago.

[MtB]

3 hours ago, mykaskin said:

 

If there is only one of them, I saw it at Harkers on the bank about 4 years ago.

 

There was rumoured to be two of them IIRC.

 

But no-one ever saw them both at the same time! 

 

 

[ditchcrawler]

This one is on Facebook Market Place

[John Brightley]

"50ft Bantock narrowboat"

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176403801459

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Odd looking bow is it a Bantock boat?

has a stern become a bow?

[agg221]

4 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

Odd looking bow is it a Bantock boat?

has a stern become a bow?

It looks to me like the stern end of a Mark 2 Bantock that has been used as a bow.

 

Alec