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Post by patty on May 29, 2021 17:13:43 GMT
there r some loverly boats to be seen..thanks for posting
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Post by Andyberg on Jun 5, 2021 18:12:24 GMT
Rare sight today.... Mersey out n about, spinning round at the New Lane Burscough winding hole, looked spectacular! 👍
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 20:52:48 GMT
Nice. That's the one which was called Arthur and ended up down south then was road transported back home a few years ago.
I think it is anyway.
It was for sale same time I bought my barge for around the same money but I was scared of owning another old boat.
It's very nice. I shared Molesey lock with it when it was being taken to Reading for the travel hoist.
Never have I been more glad to be beside a boat than in front of it. I mean I was already in the lock but fortunately they were allocated the other side by the keeper as they could fit alongside my boat.
She came into the lock all guns blazing, bloke put it in reverse (gear lever on top of engine room cabin) and revved it up but he failed to look back and didn't notice it was still in ahead gear. Linkage had come off ! Gave the top gates a good clout. Very pleased it wasn't my boat he hit !!
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Post by kris on Jun 5, 2021 21:29:43 GMT
Rare sight today.... Mersey out n about, spinning round at the New Lane Burscough winding hole, looked spectacular! 👍 Mersey is a nice boat, it’s the prototype short boat. There’s no ballast tank.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 6, 2021 6:17:49 GMT
Rare sight today.... Mersey out n about, spinning round at the New Lane Burscough winding hole, looked spectacular! 👍 Mersey is a nice boat, it’s the prototype short boat. There’s no ballast tank. Rubbish ! The Leeds & Liverpool, or at least most of it, was finished and open to boat traffic by the 1780's. How do you think stuff got moved about on the canal in the intervening 150 or so years until "Mersey" came along ? Cargoes weren't carried on the backs of strings of pack-horses or pushed along the towpath in wheelbarrows, . . idiot !
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Post by kris on Jun 6, 2021 7:17:56 GMT
So when did yarwoods build their first steel short boat? Anyway I should know better than feed the grumpy dunk.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 6, 2021 7:47:31 GMT
So when did yarwoods build their first steel short boat? Anyway I should know better than feed the grumpy dunk. I don't know, . . I'm not sure if Yarwoods did build any steel ones - as far as I remember "Mersey" was iron - but as any steel ones would have been built after "Mersey", they would have to have been built a good bit more than 150 years after " the prototype short boat", . . which itself would have to date back to about the time the first section of the canal with the short locks was opened, . . idiot !
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Post by kris on Jun 6, 2021 7:57:00 GMT
Remind us Tony what your doing to preserve the historic boat Selby Micheal? Obviously whilst it’s still in your possession.
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2021 8:20:37 GMT
Remind us Tony what your doing to preserve the historic boat Selby Micheal? Obviously whilst it’s still in your possession. Is it still scuppered and moored on a sand bank?
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Post by kris on Jun 6, 2021 8:57:44 GMT
Tony’s silence is deafening.
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2021 9:46:33 GMT
Tony’s silence is deafening. Give it 3 weeks... He's just being Mr Picky Pedant, it's a distraction from the trials and tribulations of getting very old, as is his whole project. Cheap enough hobby really. Yes it was wrought iron not steel, but I understood that you meant, it was the first of it's type. Were wooden L&L boats before that referred to as short boats, even at the opening of the canal? TonyDunkley cut the ribbon, he will know.
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Post by kris on Jun 6, 2021 10:18:11 GMT
Tony’s silence is deafening. Give it 3 weeks... He's just being Mr Picky Pedant, it's a distraction from the trials and tribulations of getting very old, as is his whole project. Cheap enough hobby really. Yes it was wrought iron not steel, but I understood that you meant, it was the first of it's type. Were wooden L&L boats before that referred to as short boats, even at the opening of the canal? TonyDunkley cut the ribbon, he will know. He was on the ark, apparently.
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2021 10:33:18 GMT
Give it 3 weeks... He's just being Mr Picky Pedant, it's a distraction from the trials and tribulations of getting very old, as is his whole project. Cheap enough hobby really. Yes it was wrought iron not steel, but I understood that you meant, it was the first of it's type. Were wooden L&L boats before that referred to as short boats, even at the opening of the canal? TonyDunkley cut the ribbon, he will know. He was on the ark, apparently. Are there two of him then?
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Post by kris on Jun 6, 2021 10:37:21 GMT
He was on the ark, apparently. Are there two of him then? canal and river trust are praying not.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 6, 2021 10:39:35 GMT
Nice. That's the one which was called Arthur and ended up down south then was road transported back home a few years ago. I think it is anyway. It was for sale same time I bought my barge for around the same money but I was scared of owning another old boat. It's very nice. I shared Molesey lock with it when it was being taken to Reading for the travel hoist. Never have I been more glad to be beside a boat than in front of it. I mean I was already in the lock but fortunately they were allocated the other side by the keeper as they could fit alongside my boat. She came into the lock all guns blazing, bloke put it in reverse (gear lever on top of engine room cabin) and revved it up but he failed to look back and didn't notice it was still in ahead gear. Linkage had come off ! Gave the top gates a good clout. Very pleased it wasn't my boat he hit !! Yes, "Mersey" was re-named "Arthur" for quite a number of years. In the early 1960's it belonged to some people who were involved in bringing some trade back onto the Upper Trent and the Soar, . . and even got used for one or two, unsuccessful one-off trial loads of I can't remember what, on the [Erewash] canal up to Ilkeston. The original engine, a Widdop if I remember right, was replaced around that time with a brand new Newage/BMC Commodore - a 3.8 litre 4xcyl diesel of around 65-70 bhp - which made it get along rather well, . . as long as there was enough water in the hold for the shutts to float in. It probably still had that same engine when it tried to move Molesey Lock a bit nearer to Sunbury !
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