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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 11:06:26 GMT
There are lots of residential moorings at Hampton.
I'll be passing next week so will keep an eye out for the Oliekop.
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Post by airedaleman on Apr 19, 2018 12:09:45 GMT
I saw this programme but didn’t catch the start. It looked like a luxe motor and it may have been a bunker boat as about the right size. The inside of the hull looked ok but the GM 2 stroke was I think the type 51, they didn’t show the exhaust smoke but doubt it will ever move, anyway doubt it would pass the Bsc. Liked the way they had cloth hiding the hull in the bedroom I don’t think they will need to use the shower much as the deck head wasn’t insulated. Think it was a decent hull ruined.
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Post by bargemast on Apr 19, 2018 12:35:50 GMT
I didn't record it so I can't check. It was tugged over from the Netherlands I think for 8000 quid. I think they mentioned mooring at Hampton, would that be right? In the UK you can see that programm still for several weeks. In France, I get a message on the screan to tell me that this service isn't available in my country. This is the link to the replay of that programm www.channel4.com/programmes/my-floating-home/on-demand/65589-005Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Apr 19, 2018 12:46:17 GMT
I saw this programme but didn’t catch the start. It looked like a luxe motor and it may have been a bunker boat as about the right size. The inside of the hull looked ok but the GM 2 stroke was I think the type 51, they didn’t show the exhaust smoke but doubt it will ever move, anyway doubt it would pass the Bsc. Liked the way they had cloth hiding the hull in the bedroom I don’t think they will need to use the shower much as the deck head wasn’t insulated. Think it was a decent hull ruined. Hi David, the most common GM used in boats was the 71 series which where massively used after WW2 when the Sherman tanks were dismanteled and their engines, often complete with the tank gearboxes installed in barges that were towed before the war, they were the well known smoking 6/71 engines. Later they made needle injectors N-55 that used less fuel and didn't smoke (like the one I had in the "Mary-Lise"). The series 51 never existed a.f.a.i.k. but there was a series 53, and also a series 92 that were used in barges (resp. smaller and bigger than the 71 series). Peter.
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Post by airedaleman on Apr 19, 2018 19:03:36 GMT
Peter. I had a 71 in Peke when I first brought it a 4cylinder version which although it said General Motors on the rocker cover turned out to be a Russian made version and some American parts fitted but others didn’t and boy did it smoke. You couldnt see the mooring when it first started up and cyclists used to go past holding their noses, can’t say I blamed them. The one in the barge in question didn’t look like mine and I assumed it was a 51 which I thought I had heard of and it looked like one in a friends allis chambers tractor but I bough to your superior knowledge. Best thing I ever did was change it for the Perkins.
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Post by bargemast on Apr 19, 2018 20:04:59 GMT
Peter. I had a 71 in Peke when I first brought it a 4cylinder version which although it said General Motors on the rocker cover turned out to be a Russian made version and some American parts fitted but others didn’t and boy did it smoke. You couldnt see the mooring when it first started up and cyclists used to go past holding their noses, can’t say I blamed them. The one in the barge in question didn’t look like mine and I assumed it was a 51 which I thought I had heard of and it looked like one in a friends allis chambers tractor but I bough to your superior knowledge. Best thing I ever did was change it for the Perkins. Hello David, I remember that you had a Russian GM copy, they most likely copied it almost exactly like they were in the Yank Sherman tanks, with the too big smoke producing injectors, they could in several cases have been used as smoke layers too. Your Perkins is a far superior engine, and surely an engine that will give you peace and quiet for as long as you'll keep "Peke", and for the next owner too. Peter.
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