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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 15:56:52 GMT
Oh I DO hope there is a boat selling scented candles and organic honey between Leeds and Goole, as we have run out of both. Have you taken your tablets today?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 18:42:48 GMT
In the midlands, many hotels have reverted to a single boat. The motor and butty seem to have fallen largely by the wayside.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 20:56:27 GMT
Oh I DO hope there is a boat selling scented candles and organic honey between Leeds and Goole, as we have run out of both. You'll be lucky, try Morrison's in knottingley for your candles though. It's a short walk from the canal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 5:12:37 GMT
Yellow Vauxhall viva vans, they took over the world for a while. They were Ex BT Bedford HA vans. Dad had two on the trot from Tanners of Burton Latimer (one of the A6 corrode used motor sales lot) - unlike the later Vauxhall Astramax van they were definitely not the fastest production vehicle on the road at the time.
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Post by quaysider on Jul 17, 2017 6:59:23 GMT
sorry for the delay - the "wood burning" I was on about, is that arty farty stuff (which I like the look of) whereby they burn patterns into lumps of wood and sell it to rich people... I can't afford it.
Re hotel boating - some of you may already know, we plan (still ) to run Ellis as hotel boat... not n the usual sense, more of a come and share some time in our world kind of affair... where we charge less (enough to cover our living costs) and have a more relaxed "one of the family" feeling.
just 2 people at a time (as we've only got the one boat and no butty) ... perhaps even offering special weeks for solo cruisers with no single suplment - I mean, one person is going to be easier to entertain than two and the plan was never to be rich... just cover the cost of living without having to "work" properly...
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Post by Andyberg on Jul 17, 2017 7:48:12 GMT
Yellow Vauxhall viva vans, they took over the world for a while. They were Ex BT Bedford HA vans. they were definitely not the fastest production vehicle on the road at the time. I had a yellow BT HA van in the late 80's.. 50mph maximum flat to the knacker, HGV's used to blow you into the weeds!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 8:34:21 GMT
They were Ex BT Bedford HA vans. they were definitely not the fastest production vehicle on the road at the time. I had a yellow BT HA van in the late 80's.. 50mph maximum flat to the knacker, HGV's used to blow you into the weeds! As you say they were woefully slow! Dad was a pioneer with his, he fitted a bench seat out of a Sherpa in the back for us to kids, rear facing so better in an accident this was well before Renault launched the original Espace, unlike the Espace it was made out of Luton tin rather than French galvanised steel and fibreglass meaning it has long since gone to the great scrapyard in the sky.
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Post by Andyberg on Jul 17, 2017 8:43:35 GMT
I had a yellow BT HA van in the late 80's.. 50mph maximum flat to the knacker, HGV's used to blow you into the weeds! As you say they were woefully slow! Dad was a pioneer with his, he fitted a bench seat out of a Sherpa in the back for us to kids, rear facing so better in an accident this was well before Renault launched the original Espace, unlike the Espace it was made out of Luton tin rather than French galvanised steel and fibreglass meaning it has long since gone to the great scrapyard in the sky. We used to cut the ignition for a second or so when driving thro town then turn it back on to massive backfires...scare the bejesus out of shoppers and the like!😂😂 probably end end up being treated as a terrorist incident if you did it today!🙄
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 10:41:44 GMT
The old BT Commer vans were great for back firing, not so good for hiding down the greasy spoon or pub though...
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Post by peterboat on Jul 17, 2017 12:58:47 GMT
Yes great fun but if the silencer was a bit rusty it would blow the seams apart!! ask me how I know?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 13:13:19 GMT
Yes great fun but if the silencer was a bit rusty it would blow the seams apart!! ask me how I know? Just an afternoon in the BT MV workshop drinking tea...
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Post by patty on Jul 17, 2017 17:59:59 GMT
Re hotel boating - some of you may already know, we plan (still ) to run Ellis as hotel boat... not n the usual sense, more of a come and share some time in our world kind of affair... where we charge less (enough to cover our living costs) and have a more relaxed "one of the family" feeling. just 2 people at a time (as we've only got the one boat and no butty) ... perhaps even offering special weeks for solo cruisers with no single suplment - I mean, one person is going to be easier to entertain than two and the plan was never to be rich... just cover the cost of living without having to "work" properly... Sounds pretty good plan...just keep going you'll get there
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 22:02:50 GMT
I had a Bedford HA van. Quite a work horse. The worse thing was scraping the ice off the inside of the windscreen in winter. Not built for comfort Rog
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Post by tadworth on Jul 18, 2017 22:47:38 GMT
I doubt many of them are profit making business's, when the novelty wears off its not worth the time running a business that makes no money, you have to be there to make sales, and sitting on a boat for 8 hours while no one pays any interest to you is not a fun day out. I have traded with various things from a boat, logs, books, customer returns, and it only works where the canal is right by a very busy public place, you need hundreds of people passing to get a few customers, Camden market, Gas St, Banbury, Paddington basin ect .
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2017 7:59:07 GMT
You may well be right. Just from observation, many appear to be an attempt to make a few bob whilst actually still boating, rather than just getting a job. Some seem to be quite a lot of work. Watching the 'Sweet boat' set up at Great Haywood was an eye opener. Jars and jars of sweets on racks fastened the length of the boat, with canopies hanging over the lot. But with the current proliferation of trading boats, you have to guess someone's finding it profitable, or they'd simply pack in, and numbers wouldn't be growing. I'll stick to 9 months peaceful boating and then take a job for three months in the run up to Christmas. It's worked for us for ten years Rog
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