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Post by bargemast on Jan 1, 2019 21:27:02 GMT
Loving this thread,having spent 10 years on the Broads a love of wooden boats rubs of on you what with all wherries etc. There was a yacht station opposite our mooring which was home to the White Moth and one day they moved her out of her wet shed and the most beautiful Wherry rocked up to be renovated. Damned if I can remember her name, but she had been taken to Paris some years ago and used as a houseboat. She was a very sorry sight when they brought her across from France and up the River Bure......but the boys did a wonderful job of the restoration and I can well remember her new mast being towed up the river, it was massive and it was fascinating watching the guys balancing it a kilo of lead at a time so it would swing up and down with no effort at all by one man Phil That beautiful wherry is named "ARDEA", when she was in France she was going to be restaured somewhere on the Canal du Nivernais. To get there they first had to do the River Yonne with big sloping sided locks, where they had quite a few problems with, and then I was asked to bring her to this place on the Nivernais. I didn't follow what was done there, but heard later that she was bought and be brought back to were she came from, so that's her story completed. Peter.
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Post by Trina on Jan 1, 2019 21:42:09 GMT
I've really enjoyed reading the unfolding story.😊
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Post by phil70 on Jan 1, 2019 23:27:35 GMT
Thank you Peter, yes that was her name ARDEA, she would make you drool trust me. Phil
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 7:21:08 GMT
From broads.org.uk ARDREA Wherry nice I wonder if anyone has taken the lines of a wherry and made a steel one. That would be interesting. There must still be some yards who could manage it.
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Post by phil70 on Jan 2, 2019 8:15:13 GMT
Interesting photo by an interesting character. Craig Slawson has an obsessive love of the Broads and Broads boats. He lives in Sheffield? and has spent the same 2 weeks a year on holiday on the Broads for the last 35/40 years. He borrows a dinghy and spends all day rowing about photographing boats. Not sure what his long suffering wife does but he does devote his evenings to keeping her sweet . Just prior to us leaving the Broads he bought his own boat SUKI, a GRP cruiser about 40 x 12. His website Horning.org is the go to site For info on boats of the Broads. It was this site which provided info on FAIRLIGHT for Gazza. That shot of ARDEA was possible taken from my mooring while Craig had stopped for a yarn. Phil
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Post by bargemast on Jan 2, 2019 8:21:08 GMT
Thank you Peter, yes that was her name ARDEA, she would make you drool trust me. Phil Inside the "ARDEA" was very nice too, all the work must have been done by first class real ships carpenters and cabinet makers. It's a real pitty that I've lost all the photo's that I'd made of her in- and outside, she really was, and is again now by the looks of it, a beauty. Peter.
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Post by kris on Jan 2, 2019 8:23:10 GMT
From broads.org.uk ARDREA </div>There's a small steel wherry on the Aire and Calder below Leeds, the owner said it is a wherry. It looks very similar.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 8:35:12 GMT
Do you know its name ?
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Post by kris on Jan 2, 2019 8:55:38 GMT
Queen something or other.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 11:03:40 GMT
Queen something or other. Is it the normal size or a reduced version? Sounds interesting. "Queen Lexie" turns up on canal plan as a possible if its a smaller copy. Unknown builder though. 45x9.5ft Unusual size Queen Lexie Built by Unknown - Length : 13.71 metres ( 45 feet ) - Beam : 2.9 metres ( 9 feet 6 inches ). Metal hull Powered . Registered with Canal & River Trust number 522712 as a Private Narrow Boat. ( Last updated on Friday 29th August 2014 )
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Post by kris on Jan 2, 2019 11:11:08 GMT
Queen Lexie doesn't ring a bell, but the dimensions sound about right.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 2, 2019 11:12:50 GMT
Queen something or other. Is it the normal size or a reduced version? Sounds interesting. "Queen Lexie" turns up on canal plan as a possible if its a smaller copy. Unknown builder though. 45x9.5ft Unusual size Queen Lexie Built by Unknown - Length : 13.71 metres ( 45 feet ) - Beam : 2.9 metres ( 9 feet 6 inches ). Metal hull Powered . Registered with Canal & River Trust number 522712 as a Private Narrow Boat. ( Last updated on Friday 29th August 2014 ) Wouldn't that be just a simple wide beam "narrow" boat ? Here's a little bit of info about the different Wherry sizes that existed : "Wherries came in different sizes, according to the river they used. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal Wherry was maximum 50 ft (15 m) x 12 ft (3.7 m) x 3' 6". The River Ant Wherry was 50' x 12' max. The River Bure Wherry was 54' x 12' 8", but for the Aylsham Navigation, i.e. the upper reaches of the Bure, the boats had to be 12' 6" x 3' 6" maximum. On the southern Broads, steam wherries were used. The River Waveney Wherry was 70' x 16' max". Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 2, 2019 11:14:49 GMT
Queen Lexie doesn't ring a bell, but the dimensions sound about right. Boats do ring bells normally only when they're navigating in misty conditions . Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 11:19:19 GMT
Maybe its not on the boat list. There is a jungle Queen which is 65x10ft. 9ft6 doesn't necessarily mean wide beam narrow boat. One of my boats is 40x9ft and its a "copy" of an inspection launch. English built. The most similar I have seen is a dutch saloon boot. My boat (when a bit newer picture from Pickwell and Arnold website) Dutch salon boot* (photo from Rietpol.nl . Thats why I wondered if perhaps 45x9ft6 might be a size for some sort of reduced replica or copy. *peter - is that the correct term ?
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Post by kris on Jan 2, 2019 11:25:55 GMT
Next time I speak to my friend I'll find out. It was a maintenance barge on the broads I believe. It's got a ford series in it. My friends have put a cabin over the hold.
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