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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 18:26:16 GMT
Just noticed this on the canalworld thread about historic boats for sale. Interesting (colander?) for sale:
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Post by angelo1728 on Nov 6, 2021 12:17:08 GMT
The boat in question is ex B I Transport 'A 37' which was renamed 'Isis' Launch date 13th March, 1933.
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Post by kris on Nov 6, 2021 12:31:01 GMT
It’s gradually getting down to a price where someone might buy it.
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Post by Andyberg on Nov 18, 2021 0:14:39 GMT
Wyre and Mersey both lifted out of the canal on Tuesday onto wagons for removal from Burscough…..Where to nobody knows? 🙁
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Post by kris on Nov 18, 2021 11:28:58 GMT
Wyre and Mersey both lifted out of the canal on Tuesday onto wagons for removal from Burscough…..Where to nobody knows? 🙁 I hope they are not going south. Wye used to belong to a very good friend who unfortunately died.
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Post by Andyberg on Nov 18, 2021 11:58:46 GMT
Im heading past their old moorings on Monday, Ill see if the 3 narrowboats are still moored there, maybe theres a new house / mooring owner. I’ll see if I can find any local info this weekend.
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Post by kris on Nov 18, 2021 13:02:37 GMT
Im heading past their old moorings on Monday, Ill see if the 3 narrowboats are still moored there, maybe theres a new house / mooring owner. I’ll see if I can find any local info this weekend. I’d appreciate that, I put the chap who bought wye on to it, as after my friend died it had been left sitting for a few years. So it’s good that some one loves it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 7:20:32 GMT
Mersey (previously called Arthur for some unknown reason) went north by road from the Thames only a few years ago.
Not impossible it might return to southern water. One to look out for. There are a few of these old girls around down here in fact possibly more than are still up there !
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Nov 20, 2021 9:08:36 GMT
Mersey (previously called Arthur for some unknown reason) went north by road from the Thames only a few years ago. In the early 1960's, when owned by Ken Ebblewhite and someone else who's name I've forgotten, it was also named "Bertha", . . before being renamed "Arthur" a year or two later by either John Liley, one time editor of Motorboat & Yachting magazine, or Michael Streat, proprietor of Blue Line Cruisers at Braunston, who took it over to France.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 9:13:09 GMT
It's a nice boat. the only time I have seen a reverse failure and I was incredibly glad to be beside it not in front of it!
Molesey lock some years ago. Boat came in beside me and skipper happily whacked it into reverse, increased the revs but obviously not very experienced as he failed to notice it was still in ahead. I did holler at him but he didn't hear.
He was also going much to fast.
Always check reverse before entering Thames locks and ideally glide into lock in neutral with the option of strapping the boat on the bollards in the event of failure or prop fouling. Specially in a large craft like that.
Boat collided with top gates fair hard. That would have been extremely nasty if there had been a splitter in front of it !!
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Post by bargemast on Nov 21, 2021 13:26:47 GMT
Mersey (previously called Arthur for some unknown reason) went north by road from the Thames only a few years ago. In the early 1960's, when owned by Ken Ebblewhite and someone else who's name I've forgotten, it was also named "Bertha", . . before being renamed "Arthur" a year or two later by either John Liley, one time editor of Motorboat & Yachting magazine, or Michael Streat, proprietor of Blue Line Cruisers at Braunston, who took it over to France. When John Liley bought the boat of Michael Streat it was called "Arthur", John did some extensive cruising through the countries on the other side of the Channel, and during his travels through the Netherlands he found a nice Klipper barge named "Secunda" that he bought, they then crossed the Channel with the 2 boats, and he sold the "Arthur" back to Michael Streat ,who'd became the fleet manager of the at the time biggest hotel-barge operation with boats in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, named "Floating Trough Europe" (doesn't exist anymore). John Liley fitted out the "Secunda" as an hotel-barge and crossed the Channel to operate in France. He now owns the very first hotel-barge that worked in France that was named "Palinurus" when owned by the english man who started hotel-barging in France named Richard Parsons, John Liley re-named the barge "Luciole" that was trading very successfully before the Covid story started. Peter.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Nov 21, 2021 14:18:39 GMT
In the early 1960's, when owned by Ken Ebblewhite and someone else who's name I've forgotten, it was also named "Bertha", . . before being renamed "Arthur" a year or two later by either John Liley, one time editor of Motorboat & Yachting magazine, or Michael Streat, proprietor of Blue Line Cruisers at Braunston, who took it over to France. When John Liley bought the boat of Michael Streat it was called "Arthur", John did some extensive cruising through the countries on the other side of the Channel, and during his travels through the Netherlands he found a nice Klipper barge named "Secunda" that he bought, they then crossed the Channel with the 2 boats, and he sold the "Arthur" back to Michael Streat ,who'd became the fleet manager of the at the time biggest hotel-barge operation with boats in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, named "Floating Trough Europe" (doesn't exist anymore). John Liley fitted out the "Secunda" as an hotel-barge and crossed the Channel to operate in France. He now owns the very first hotel-barge that worked in France that was named "Palinurus" when owned by the english man who started hotel-barging in France named Richard Parsons, John Liley re-named the barge "Luciole" that was trading very successfully before the Covid story started. Peter. Hello Peter, . . it's been a long time, and it's really good to hear from you. How are you, . . and have you got all the problems you were having with the waterways authorities over there sorted out ? Things with the C&RT go from bad to worse over here. They've very nearly wiped out commercial carrying on the waters they control, and the rest of the pleasure boating waterways are being gradually shut down by stealth and neglect, . . in just the way that the British Transport Commission did with some canals back in the 1950's.
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Post by Andyberg on Dec 7, 2021 8:09:38 GMT
Im heading past their old moorings on Monday, Ill see if the 3 narrowboats are still moored there, maybe theres a new house / mooring owner. I’ll see if I can find any local info this weekend. I’d appreciate that, I put the chap who bought wye on to it, as after my friend died it had been left sitting for a few years. So it’s good that some one loves it. Talking to a couple of local boatowners yesterday and they said both Mersey and Wyre were removed by CRT due to non licence issues, apparently towed to Silcocks yard and loaded on wagons. Dunno how true that is but Ive known them for years so have no reason to doubt them altho The other 3 narrowboats at the same moorings have also gone, which would point to a new property owner to me, but who knows🤷🏻♂️
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Post by kris on Dec 7, 2021 10:44:20 GMT
I’d appreciate that, I put the chap who bought wye on to it, as after my friend died it had been left sitting for a few years. So it’s good that some one loves it. Talking to a couple of local boatowners yesterday and they said both Mersey and Wyre were removed by CRT due to non licence issues, apparently towed to Silcocks yard and loaded on wagons. Dunno how true that is but Ive known them for years so have no reason to doubt them altho The other 3 narrowboats at the same moorings have also gone, which would point to a new property owner to me, but who knows🤷🏻♂️ I can’t imagine that, the guy who owns them wasn’t short of a Bob or two. Unless of course he’s another Dunkley?
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Dec 7, 2021 18:42:55 GMT
Talking to a couple of local boatowners yesterday and they said both Mersey and Wyre were removed by CRT due to non licence issues, apparently towed to Silcocks yard and loaded on wagons. Dunno how true that is but Ive known them for years so have no reason to doubt them altho The other 3 narrowboats at the same moorings have also gone, which would point to a new property owner to me, but who knows🤷🏻♂️ Unless of course he’s another Dunkley? If he is, . . and the boats were taken by C&RT under its S.8 powers from that private wharf -- which I believe is one of those along, I think, Mill Lane, . . he'll be aware they've both been taken illegally.
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