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Post by bills on Jan 4, 2018 15:47:43 GMT
Nice boat Peter I particularly like the dent. But that's because I appreciate a nice old boat. Really glad to here that your okay. When the boat left the yard in 1917 it was a good 4 mtr longer then it's now,
That can't be right. If that was the case, there wouldn't just be a dent, it would look like a concertina.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 4, 2018 16:06:16 GMT
When the boat left the yard in 1917 it was a good 4 mtr longer then it's now,
That can't be right. If that was the case, there wouldn't just be a dent, it would look like a concertina.
Well in that case it must be wrong then, it's too bad that I know so little about barges, and that I'm so naïve, people can tell me anything, and I just believe everything they say, it's probably too late now to change that. The guy that sold me the boat worked out to be a terrible liar, but I discovered that much too late, the deal was done, so I'll have to live with it, as is. Peter.
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Post by bills on Jan 4, 2018 16:08:59 GMT
Oh dear. I wasn't being serious.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 4, 2018 16:10:31 GMT
Oh dear. I wasn't being serious. I was Peter.
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Post by kris on Jan 4, 2018 16:12:58 GMT
Nice boat Peter I particularly like the dent. But that's because I appreciate a nice old boat. Really glad to here that your okay. Thanks Kris, it's only because of this dent that I bought the boat . Now my boat is easier to recognise when moored between hundreds of similar boats, and less attractive for thieves (I hope). The yard that build my boat in 1917 doesn't exist anymore, if not I would have asked them if they could repair my boat under warrantee. It's a well build boat, they've used perforated plates for the bottom, amazing the thing still floats 100 years later. I like old boats too, it's too bad they can't talk, as I would have been very interested in it's working life story: when it was a small sailing barge. When the boat left the yard in 1917 it was a good 4 mtr longer then it's now, but I prefere this lenght at just under 15mtr, I'm allowed to single hand, and can keep my left hand in my pocket. Peter. if only boats could talk, although some times it seems like they can. What kind of engine has your boat got, in fact what would you call that particular kind of boat.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 4, 2018 17:38:51 GMT
Thanks Kris, it's only because of this dent that I bought the boat . Now my boat is easier to recognise when moored between hundreds of similar boats, and less attractive for thieves (I hope). The yard that build my boat in 1917 doesn't exist anymore, if not I would have asked them if they could repair my boat under warrantee. It's a well build boat, they've used perforated plates for the bottom, amazing the thing still floats 100 years later. I like old boats too, it's too bad they can't talk, as I would have been very interested in it's working life story: when it was a small sailing barge. When the boat left the yard in 1917 it was a good 4 mtr longer then it's now, but I prefere this lenght at just under 15mtr, I'm allowed to single hand, and can keep my left hand in my pocket. Peter. if only boats could talk, although some times it seems like they can. What kind of engine has your boat got, in fact what would you call that particular kind of boat. Yes, wouldn't that be nice ? one day I thought that my barge was starting to talk to me, but when I investigated it wasn't talking at all, it was screaming for some grease for the rudder pintels, haven't heard anything since then. The engine is nothing that a bargelover would be interested in, it a marinised Peugeot-Indénor, a simple and reliable French engine with a Hurth reverse gearbox fitted to it. The type of the barge is a "Rietaak", of which most have a stern shape that look very much the same as the bow, but mine has a stern more like a Tjalk, which I find a lot prettier, and also very different, but people have different tastes, and maybe what I like someone else may hate. Peter.
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Post by kris on Jan 4, 2018 17:53:22 GMT
if only boats could talk, although some times it seems like they can. What kind of engine has your boat got, in fact what would you call that particular kind of boat. Yes, wouldn't that be nice ? one day I thought that my barge was starting to talk to me, but when I investigated it wasn't talking at all, it was screaming for some grease for the rudder pintels, haven't heard anything since then. The engine is nothing that a bargelover would be interested in, it a marinised Peugeot-Indénor, a simple and reliable French engine with a Hurth reverse gearbox fitted to it. The type of the barge is a "Rietaak", of which most have a stern shape that look very much the same as the bow, but mine has a stern more like a Tjalk, which I find a lot prettier, and also very different, but people have different tastes, and maybe what I like someone else may hate. Peter. thanks very much for the info Peter, looks like a very nice boat. Is this the boat you want to sell ?
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Post by patty on Jan 4, 2018 18:45:02 GMT
For some reason cannot quote Peters post .... well may be due to being in my phone and consuming just maybe more vino than I should.... anyway notwithstanding fact...love your boat, dents give character... when I had my boat it had lots n lots of character
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Post by bargemast on Jan 4, 2018 19:27:07 GMT
Yes, wouldn't that be nice ? one day I thought that my barge was starting to talk to me, but when I investigated it wasn't talking at all, it was screaming for some grease for the rudder pintels, haven't heard anything since then. The engine is nothing that a bargelover would be interested in, it a marinised Peugeot-Indénor, a simple and reliable French engine with a Hurth reverse gearbox fitted to it. The type of the barge is a "Rietaak", of which most have a stern shape that look very much the same as the bow, but mine has a stern more like a Tjalk, which I find a lot prettier, and also very different, but people have different tastes, and maybe what I like someone else may hate. Peter. thanks very much for the info Peter, looks like a very nice boat. Is this the boat you want to sell ? Not really, I would like to sell the little 9M50 Tjalk, that would give me some dosh to repaint the Trawler-Yacht I'm living on and sell that too. But as the market isn't very good right now for sea-going boats, I may be forced to sell the Rietaak too, and continue with the Trawler. The Rietaak was supposed to be my retirement barge on which I could do the smaller canals again, as it has little draft and is plenty low enough for the bridges and tunnels, but nothing seems to be going the way I had hoped it would go, so I will have to adapt to the different circonstances. Here are a few photos of the little boat: Peter.
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Post by kris on Jan 4, 2018 19:56:24 GMT
How do you cope with three boats? One boat well and a tender is enough for me to cope with.
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Post by patty on Jan 4, 2018 19:58:10 GMT
thanks very much for the info Peter, looks like a very nice boat. Is this the boat you want to sell ? Not really, I would like to sell the little 9M50 Tjalk, that would give me some dosh to repaint the Trawler-Yacht I'm living on and sell that too. But as the market isn't very good right now for sea-going boats, I may be forced to sell the Rietaak too, and continue with the Trawler. The Rietaak was supposed to be my retirement barge on which I could do the smaller canals again, as it has little draft and is plenty low enough for the bridges and tunnels, but nothing seems to be going the way I had hoped it would go, so I will have to adapt to the different circonstances. Here are a few photos of the little boat: Peter. Thats a lovely boat......
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Post by phil70 on Jan 4, 2018 19:58:13 GMT
Just love the little boat but I do have one question regarding the big boat. What is it I can see on the waterline just below the dent Phil
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Post by bargemast on Jan 4, 2018 20:21:03 GMT
How do you cope with three boats? One boat well and a tender is enough for me to cope with. Good question Kris. To say it simple, I don't cope. 3 boat is at least 2 too many, even I know that. But if you know the history you may understand why it came to this. When I was still living in the back cabin of my tankerbarge, I had no place to accomodate visiting family and friends, people that would always have me stay with them when I was visiting them. So then in 2003 I bought the small Tjalk, and when they came to visit they had their private boat to stay on, and if they fancied they could take it for a spin- or for a holiday on the canals. In 2004 I bought the Trawler in Berlin, but it was still nice to have an independent place for my visiters. Sadly enough due to age and deceases there are no visiters anymore, as it's too far for them to drive all the way to me. That's why the small boat has become an unneeded surplus to me, and it takes time-money and energy (of which I haven't got enough) to look after the boat and as this boat is moored 60kms away from me, it's far from practical. As I wrote already, the Rietaak was supposed to become my future liveaboard retirement barge, and I would sell the Trawler, that way I would have enough money to survive a couple of years longer adding whatever I needed to my € 600/mth peanuts retirement pension. But nothing has gone the way I hoped- and more or less expected things to go, and that's why I may have to sell the Rietaak instead of the Trawler, as more people will be able to afford that boat than the Trawler. Just one boat and a tender is what I dream of, that is if I am able to sleep and have a dream instead of one of the more usual nightmares. Maybe after reading all this you'll understand better why it is as it is. Peter.
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Post by kris on Jan 4, 2018 20:33:03 GMT
Yes I have a bit more understanding now Peter thanks.
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Post by phil70 on Jan 4, 2018 20:33:35 GMT
Some people are envious of someone with a load of boats but having been boat rich myself at one time I fully understand the position you find yourself in and hope you can resolve it soon Phil
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