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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 18:46:17 GMT
Anyone know anything about an old riveted narrow boat called Andromeda? Its been converted from a carrying boat to a full length cabin jobbie, currently moored on the private moorings at Stretham.
No picture I'm afraid, too bloody windy, will try to get one on the way back.
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Post by bargemast on Jul 28, 2018 19:23:01 GMT
Anyone know anything about an old riveted narrow boat called Andromeda? Its been converted from a carrying boat to a full length cabin jobbie, currently moored on the private moorings at Stretham. No picture I'm afraid, too bloody windy, will try to get one on the way back. It's not this one is it ?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 19:29:06 GMT
Anyone know anything about an old riveted narrow boat called Andromeda? Its been converted from a carrying boat to a full length cabin jobbie, currently moored on the private moorings at Stretham. No picture I'm afraid, too bloody windy, will try to get one on the way back. It's not this one is it ?
Peter.
By the power of Grayskull!! That's her! Looking a little unloved at the moment.
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Post by NigelMoore on Jul 28, 2018 22:39:00 GMT
Registered 11 months before she was built, and gauged 8 months prior? That's clever.
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Post by bargemast on Jul 29, 2018 6:11:48 GMT
Registered 11 months before she was built, and gauged 8 months prior? That's clever. It's even more clever if you realise that this was done many years before computers came in.
You'll have to admire what they were able to do in these days
Peter.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 29, 2018 8:31:28 GMT
I don't think that the info on the HNBC website from Peter's link is right about it being used as a landing stage at Newark, . . there's never been any need for a floating stage at either Town Lock or Bottom Lock at Newark, and I can't recall there ever being any such arrangement.
It's more likely to be one of the four decked over ex-maintenance fleet butty boats, three Litttle Woolwich's and one Little Northwich that BWB used to moor end to end as Summer pleasure boat moorings between five piles in the Witham just above Boston Grand Sluice in the 1960's. Until BWB installed some permanent pontoon moorings at Boston in the 1970's, they were kept in the dry-dock backwater at Newark Repair Yard over the Winter months and taken down to Boston every Spring.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 9:52:23 GMT
I don't think that the info on the HNBC website from Peter's link is right about it being used as a landing stage at Newark, . . there's never been any need for a floating stage at either Town Lock or Bottom Lock at Newark, and I can't recall there ever being any such arrangement. It's more likely to be one of the four decked over ex-maintenance fleet butty boats, three Litttle Woolwich's and one Little Northwich that BWB used to moor end to end as Summer pleasure boat moorings between five piles in the Witham just above Boston Grand Sluice in the 1960's. Until BWB installed some permanent pontoon moorings at Boston in the 1970's, they were kept in the dry-dock backwater at Newark Repair Yard over the Winter months and taken down to Boston every Spring. Interesting stuff Tony. Brownhills staunch on the Great Ouse had some big mud hoppers decked over that served as the downstream landing stage, I think they were replaced around 2012/12
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Post by NigelMoore on Jul 29, 2018 14:41:01 GMT
It's even more clever if you realise that this was done many years before computers came in.
You'll have to admire what they were able to do in these days
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'Gauging' the boats for the first time was a time consuming business done entirely by hand, with a record kept in the Toll House of the numerous measurements taken. One of the many tragic examples of the destruction of Brentford’s history was the filling in of the Weigh Dock on the tidal section. Calibration of the boats was carried out there using known weights, and the freeboard details were recorded and used to measure the cargo tonnage via freeboard remaining as boats transited the Gauging Locks a little further upstream. Only photos now remind one of what the remnant of the entry had once been. All filled in to provide a bit more lawn area for the blocks of flats surrounding it. This is the May 1910 photograph showing the Fellows, Morton & Clayton Ltd horse boats "India" and "Stockport" in the dock, the latter tipped over and sank when the weights shifted. There are boat families posing on "India" and people stood on the side of "Stockport".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 14:53:53 GMT
Sorry, but I thought the title was a reference to mouse Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 15:02:16 GMT
It's even more clever if you realise that this was done many years before computers came in.
You'll have to admire what they were able to do in these days
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'Gauging' the boats for the first time was a time consuming business done entirely by hand, with a record kept in the Toll House of the numerous measurements taken. One of the many tragic examples of the destruction of Brentford’s history was the filling in of the Weigh Dock on the tidal section. Calibration of the boats was carried out there using known weights, and the freeboard details were recorded and used to measure the cargo tonnage via freeboard remaining as boats transited the Gauging Locks a little further upstream. Only photos now remind one of what the remnant of the entry had once been. All filled in to provide a bit more lawn area for the blocks of flats surrounding it. This is the May 1910 photograph showing the Fellows, Morton & Clayton Ltd horse boats "India" and "Stockport" in the dock, the latter tipped over and sank when the weights shifted. There are boat families posing on "India" and people stood on the side of "Stockport". I’d keep quiet about gauging locks Nigel, it might give CRT more ideas...
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Post by NigelMoore on Jul 31, 2018 15:48:27 GMT
I was searching earlier for a photo of a boat being measured in the Gauging Locks, and have just found it – The instrument used is still kept in the Toll House alongside the locks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 19:58:28 GMT
One old wooden cruiser, needs a little attention to planking and superstructure. There are a few like this on the way to St Ives, a couple on the bank too. I missed Andromeda but spotted this mean old looking Harborough Marine boat, imposing looking thing compared to the run of the mill sewer tubes one normally sees. A couple for bargemast
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Post by bargemast on Jul 31, 2018 21:21:53 GMT
One old wooden cruiser, needs a little attention to planking and superstructure. There are a few like this on the way to St Ives, a couple on the bank too. I missed Andromeda but spotted this mean old looking Harborough Marine boat, imposing looking thing compared to the run of the mill sewer tubes one normally sees. A couple for bargemast The first photo may need a little bit of work to do some minor repairs to the deck too, but there's nothing that can't be done by someone with the time and the skill and the money .
Thanks for the photos of the Dutch built boats, the little one of which I don't like the superstructure very much, but the owner may like it, as is, looks like a "Friese Praam" en the second one the barge "Eiland Marken" probably was een ex-beurtschip that used to trade between the Island of Marken in the then Zuider Zee, and Amsterdam and across the Zuider Zee and sell and pick up trade there too
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Post by bargemast on Jul 31, 2018 21:25:30 GMT
Forgotten to say that I've always liked the imposing bows of Harborough Marine boats, but not their usually long decks at the stern, I've always like trad sterns better.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 21:30:48 GMT
Window smashers. The funny thing is that my mum had one of her windows smashed by a harborough marine boat moored in Fox's marina. She was going in for diesel and the wind took her onto the bows of a moored boat. A harborough marine boat. I remained outside the marina on my boat as I hate marinas. It also bent the channel glaze window frame so we went to Solihull (I think it was there anyway - where channel glaze workshop was) in my car (yes I did travel the length and breadth of england by canal boat cycling back every day for the car ) to buy a new frame and I drilled the rivets out and a bit of grinding as well and I successfully fitted the new frame which included a sliding window (a real bonus for her boat) in March (the town not the month). Would have been early 00s when we did the trip down to Barford and back onto the GU.
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