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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.

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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.

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On the Duck too. http://www.apolloduck.co.uk/advert.phtml?id=304566 Gorgeous.

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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!

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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

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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.

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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.

 

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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".....

 

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then to my eye this simply isn't.......

 

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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.

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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?

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(Actually it is £64,950 on "The Duck"!)

 

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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.

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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 . . .

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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.

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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! laugh.png

 

(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......

 

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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.

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