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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 19:29:27 GMT
It's not just yourself gazza, people standing 10ft away think it's grey. I think when I repaint it in spring I might use a colour that is a bit more green.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 19:38:10 GMT
It's not just yourself gazza, people standing 10ft think it's grey. I think when I repaint it in spring I might use a colour that is a bit more green. Ah right, I don't feel such a pudding now!
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Post by kris on Oct 14, 2016 19:43:44 GMT
No its peculiar because to me it's green, but a lot of people see it as grey. I think it's something to do with it being a Matt finish.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 19:51:46 GMT
I'd got a better excuse looking at it 100+? miles away on a phone
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 14, 2016 20:08:20 GMT
Kris
The lines look much nicer than when I last saw it in 1994. A really clean looking finish.
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Post by Delta9 on Oct 14, 2016 20:32:50 GMT
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 I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that.. Also knocks a fair bit off the value of the boat as any potential buyers have to factor in painting over other people's names.
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Post by kris on Oct 15, 2016 6:00:13 GMT
Kris The lines look much nicer than when I last saw it in 1994. A really clean looking finish. Thanks very much, did it have piles of scrap on the roof last time you saw it?
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 15, 2016 8:32:21 GMT
No it was at a boat rally in Blackburn June 1994. So had probably been cleaned up a bit.
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Post by kris on Oct 15, 2016 8:47:09 GMT
Unfortunately I never met eddy, but Ray came and said hello just after I bought the boat. Lots of people on this canal have interesting stories about them and the boat. It's been part of the pleasure of owning the boat.
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 15, 2016 10:57:48 GMT
At that 1994 meeting, I gave Eddy a bottle of Whisky as my appreciation of pointing me in the right direction of finding the A 40. I had first met him 3/4 years earlier when I found them by the double arch bridge at East Marton.
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Post by kris on Oct 15, 2016 17:59:56 GMT
I've still got some wine that eddy made in the 80's, the elderberry had gone sour but the "burgandy"(tea leaf I think) is still fine. I opened a bottle and had a drink for eddy when I heard he'd died. It's a bit like rocket fuel but not bad so I tend to keep it for special occasions. There's a picture of A41 at the double bridges, from around that era. It appears on a postcard you can buy in skipton.
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Post by bargemast on Oct 15, 2016 21:58:47 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? There's not much of a shortboat left to be seen, this was many years before H&S came into action.
Peter.
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Post by kris on Oct 16, 2016 7:56:48 GMT
Kennet just setting off on the second leg of the 200th anniversary crossing of the Leeds and Liverpool
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Post by angelo1728 on Oct 16, 2016 11:53:17 GMT
Not a short boat but I am signing out for one weeks holiday celebration birthday and wedding anniversary. Hope you appreciate this photo courtesy of Ian Moss at Angelo's home mooring Ring O' Bells, June 1962. The canal had breached at the Tawd Vale Aqueduct nearby and both boats are sat on the bottom.
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Post by kris on Oct 17, 2016 13:25:57 GMT
Have a good holiday Roy and happy birthday. Thanks for photo.
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