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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 12, 2018 16:31:24 GMT
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Post by Mr Stabby on Nov 12, 2018 17:10:20 GMT
I believe "model" may be a euphemism.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 17:14:39 GMT
Winter is going to be fun on that little boat with a baby on there moored on the towpath with the psychlists trying to kill you every morning.
Lovely dream life.
I know this topic as we lived first two years after I bought this barge on the towpath in central parts of London with a baby before going to the mooring. Its not a great place unless you get well out of the city. All looks wonderful lovely and cheap and yes I could do it and have previously lived off grid for a long time (since 1994) by myself but once you involve kids its much more awkward.
Of course there are precedents now so they won't need to move far at all when the little'un is in childcare then school. That's a new thing so it probably is easier to do now being fair.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 13, 2018 13:36:57 GMT
They made quite a nice job of the fit-out of this old Dutch boat.
In the boat index it says that the boat is the same width as a narrowboat, but I don't believe that that's true, as the sideways bed looks rather big, and the inside walls seem to be going down straight from the windows, so there will be at least the width from the side decks to add to that.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 13:54:34 GMT
Looks about 9ft wide to me. Here's an interesting question for you bargemast. Other than dinghies and small work boats like those lovely Opduwers were dutch barges ever built less than 2.1m wide ? I was wondering about this as you don't tend to see them (if they exist) in Englandland. There are a few "narrow beam replica dutch barges " about which were made in the UK but I can't recall ever seeing a narrow dutch barge. I think there were some French ones (again not obvious in the UK) but not sure about the Dutch. I find this sort of topic interesting. |
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Post by bargemast on Nov 13, 2018 15:05:57 GMT
Looks about 9ft wide to me. Here's an interesting question for you bargemast . Other than dinghies and small work boats like those lovely Opduwers were dutch barges ever built less than 2.1m wide ? I was wondering about this as you don't tend to see them (if they exist) in Englandland. There are a few "narrow beam replica dutch barges " about which were made in the UK but I can't recall ever seeing a narrow dutch barge. I think there were some French ones (again not obvious in the UK) but not sure about the Dutch. I find this sort of topic interesting. In the Netherlands all kinds of boats and barges have been built that were specially made for the waters they had to work on, the narrowest ones were the ones that moved vegetables between the often small pieces of land in the lowlands, a bit wider ones to ferry cows from one piece of land to another, and milk boats to transport the milk from the farms to the milk factories. These boats never had standard sizes like the narrow boats. In France there were a few smaller canals that were used for commercial barge trafic, like le Canal du Berry, on which "Berrichons" were used with dimensions of 23 to 27.50m long and 2.30 to 2.60m wide. A fairly similar kind of barge was the "Flute de l'Ourcq" to navigate on the Ourcq with the dimensions of 28m x 3m. In Belgium they used to have some very narrow barges too, 'Les baquets de Charleroi" that messured 19m50 x 2m60. I think that the narrowest kind of better know Dutch working barges were the "Langedijkers" www.debinnenvaart.nl/binnenvaarttaal/afbeeldingen/schepen/vrachtschepen_oud/diverse/langedijkers.htmlOf which the longest versions were about 20m long x 3m15 wide, after the locks had been lenghtened, they were a kind of narrow type of Luxemotor  Peter. |
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