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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 15:17:07 GMT
Fell asleep early last night so I didn't get a chance till lunchtime to get in touch with Roy properly.
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 15:37:44 GMT
This is the boat I'm moored next to at the moment, which boat is it?
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 14, 2016 16:07:38 GMT
Unless another short boat has turned up, you told me a while ago, it is named after the river in Lancaster.
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 16:25:34 GMT
That's wye, I know it's not an Aclass but it's still a shortboat. It's just changed hands and coming back over the Pennines.
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 14, 2016 17:06:23 GMT
Call the Police, Health & Safety,or Council, but they didn't stop this cargo on the A 40 Photo taken in East Lancashire in the 1950's after she had been bought by Croasdales for coal carrying between Burnley, Skipton and Blackburn. How many people on board?
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 17:46:16 GMT
That's an amazing photo Roy, is it your dad on the tiller?
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 18:12:11 GMT
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 14, 2016 18:24:42 GMT
No mot my Dad he stayed below Wigan Locks at that time on the Liverpool Coal Traffic. Is that the stern end of A 41 on first picture.
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 18:33:07 GMT
No the boat in front is wharf a pimblotts boat ( it can't help it) the boat behind is garstang a copy ( I can't remember who built that one, I have met him but my memory is bad)
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 14, 2016 18:40:39 GMT
Must admit I do prefer red oxide on the hull. But then I am biased as this was the B I style.
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 19:01:41 GMT
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 19:08:12 GMT
Must admit I do prefer red oxide on the hull. But then I am biased as this was the B I style. Lune is looking really well now days I replaced some missing bits of rubbing strake for the owners a couple of years ago, which tidied it up no end. They painted it, and yes I think it looks well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 19:14:37 GMT
I've more time for someone putting their heart and soul into their boat than someone who put a pension lump sum into theirs!
Paints the last of the things I consider to finish a boat. We had ours 4 years before the top got a decent lick of paint. In the 7 years we've had her she's had a new engine and cooling system pipework, heating systems x 2, new upholstery, refit of sterngear, galley refit, major shake up of electrical systems. Screens repaired, windows stripped and resealed, reposition and replace fuel tank during cockpit refit. Several hull and underside paint jobs, new prop the list goes on and on!
If someone can't see past a coat of primer they probably aren't worth bothering too much with anyway!
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 19:19:05 GMT
That's actually green, nato green. Matt military vehicle paint, it's amazing how many people see it as grey.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 19:26:43 GMT
That's actually green, nato green. Matt military vehicle paint, it's amazing how many people see it as grey. My eyes are a bit buggered from peering thru a shade 10 lens for most of my working life! It doesn't help looking at a dull smartphone screen. As an aside, why do narrow boat owners put things like John & Kate Smith on the side? It always makes me think of those Dave & Tracey windscreen shades popular in the 80's
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