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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 17:44:11 GMT
I seem to recall that hasn't got an engine. Sounds ideal for towing.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 20, 2018 17:48:12 GMT
What's with the stupid Buddha and prayer cushions? It's just ugly inside. No thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 17:52:22 GMT
What's with the stupid Buddha . Maybe they are Buddhists. Some of my nut case relatives are Buddhists. I heard them chanting once it scared the living shite of me
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Post by IainS on Aug 23, 2018 15:13:17 GMT
I seem to recall that hasn't got an engine. As far as I'm aware it's been up for sale for ages. Very few (if any) purpose built lightships were equipped with main engines, just generators.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 3, 2020 9:37:01 GMT
On 10 March last the site owner of CWDF posted the question - "Does anyone have an update on this boats or its whereabouts at all? Finding very little online." - in a CWDF topic/thread entitled "Lightship Planet sold for £12,500".
Resurrecting that thread and to ask that question at this time may simply be idle curiosity, . . or it could possibly have been done in the hope of finding out if their theft of the ship from it's rightful owner in Liverpool in September 2016 has faded away into the mists of time sufficiently for C&RT to renew their previously unsuccessful efforts to rid themselves of the continuing possession this item of stolen property.
Whatever the reason for the 10 March post on CWDF, and for the benefit of any interested party, I can assure them that the the matter of the theft and continuing unlawful possession of "Planet" by the Canal & River Trust is by no means over or done with, and will be pursued until the thieves either bow to the inevitable and voluntarily hand the ship back to it's owner, Alan Roberts, together with an appropriate sum in compensation and damages, . . . or they are ordered so to do by the Courts.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 3, 2020 10:15:41 GMT
We'll all be dead of the second wave of coronavirus by the time anything happens.
What has happened since June 2017? Last I heard the bloke who bought it (Steve someone?) was moaning £500/week mooring fee was too much for him to handle. So... where is the ship now? Have Google Maps updated their satellite maps of Gloucester docks? (they have for Brinklow).
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Post by Jim on Apr 3, 2020 10:18:04 GMT
We'll all be dead of the second wave of coronavirus by the time anything happens. What has happened since June 2017? Last I heard the bloke who bought it (Steve someone?) was moaning £500/week mooring fee was too much for him to handle. So... where is the ship now? Have Google Maps updated their satellite maps of Gloucester docks? (they have for Brinklow). Why you asking us? Go and look, then report back. You'd be cnpeeing summat useful then. 😂
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 3, 2020 10:45:20 GMT
We'll all be dead of the second wave of coronavirus by the time anything happens. What has happened since June 2017? Last I heard the bloke who bought it (Steve someone?) was moaning £500/week mooring fee was too much for him to handle. So... where is the ship now? Have Google Maps updated their satellite maps of Gloucester docks? (they have for Brinklow). Nobody 'bought' it, . . it was never, ever anyone other than Alan Roberts', the rightful owner's, to sell. The man C&RT lied about selling "Planet" to was Steve Beacham, the proprietor of Sharpness Shipyard & Drydock where the ship still lays on the same expensive rented berth it has occupied since 25 September 2016.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 3, 2020 10:51:04 GMT
I'm busy chainsawing down trees right now, Jim. And I don't know if I'm allowed to the airport with Uusimaa's borders being closed. Coffee break now. I wonder what will happen to lightship Planet. Is it just sitting and going rusty? Is the owner pushing a court case? Will we ever know the names of the night club bouncers who pretended to be Court Bailiffs? What are they up to these days? So many questions and no answers.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 3, 2020 11:02:28 GMT
We'll all be dead of the second wave of coronavirus by the time anything happens. What has happened since June 2017? Last I heard the bloke who bought it (Steve someone?) was moaning £500/week mooring fee was too much for him to handle. So... where is the ship now? Have Google Maps updated their satellite maps of Gloucester docks? (they have for Brinklow). Nobody 'bought' it, . . it was never, ever anyone other than Alan Roberts', the rightful owner's, to sell. The man C&RT lied about selling "Planet" to was Steve Beacham, the proprietor of Sharpness Shipyard & Drydock where the ship still lays on the same expensive rented berth it has occupied since 25 September 2016. Yes, sorry - I meant to have the word 'bought' in quotation marks. Although isn't it possible to 'buy' stolen property? Yes, Beacham is the name, I remember. But the last I heard was that the mooring/parking fee was more than he could afford - and that's almost 3 years ago! So... is he still forking out for the mooring or what? What if Steve gets Covid-19 and snuffs it.. should we all clap? I'm still interested to see how this rolls out. Does the ship have an engine? Will it be getting rusty and seizing solid, or is it being run occasionally? Has anybody been pestering Steve? Letters to his employer/the Police, etc.?
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Post by Jim on Apr 3, 2020 11:10:32 GMT
I'm busy chainsawing down trees right now, Jim. And I don't know if I'm allowed to the airport with Uusimaa's borders being closed. Coffee break now. I wonder what will happen to lightship Planet. Is it just sitting and going rusty? Is the owner pushing a court case? Will we ever know the names of the night club bouncers who pretended to be Court Bailiffs? What are they up to these days? So many questions and no answers. enough there to keep you busy for a while.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 3, 2020 11:12:44 GMT
The big ones stay - we're thinning the trees, not making a field. The big ones go to the paper/saw mills eventually. And some will go into making toilet paper for the UK.
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Post by Jim on Apr 3, 2020 11:16:21 GMT
Here you go, only Sula Lightship as far as I can see.
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Post by Gone on Apr 3, 2020 13:50:12 GMT
Here you go, only Sula Lightship as far as I can see. It was at the other end of the canal, near the sea lock and dry dock in Sharpness. (51.7194157, -2.4787189)
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Post by JohnV on Apr 3, 2020 14:39:05 GMT
Is it the one in the corner? Sharpness sea lock. Pic from year 2020. Why has Jim stuck a pic of Gloucester docks? 'tis not the same at all! It's only to be suspected ....... after all you shouldn't employ a clown as a navigator
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