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Post by JohnV on Jul 31, 2020 10:28:15 GMT
This morning when I woke up I found we were listing quite a lot. Went up on deck and found the stern deck was trapped uner the wooden posts we are moored against and the forward and midships lines were stretched bar tight !!!
A little old grp boat had drifted between the bow and the shore and forced the bow out (and subsequently the stern in)...... now pulled out and tied to my bow on the off side completely dry inside but looks like it has been abandoned for a long time .....reckon it will make a decent little painting punt !
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Post by phil70 on Jul 31, 2020 10:57:58 GMT
A man after my own heart, I picked up no end of dinghies when we were on the Broads none registered (as they should have been) so no chance of finding the owners. I kept a few and sold a few £50 was the going rate Phil
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Post by patty on Jul 31, 2020 11:49:44 GMT
Thats a nice little boat..a few more and u could copy Flappy and flog them....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 12:22:56 GMT
It looks a little bit like a small speed boat. 30hp outboard and JohnV could pretend to be a little boy racer
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 13:35:26 GMT
That river looks really narrow for a big boat, which river is it?
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Post by metanoia on Jul 31, 2020 16:35:43 GMT
This morning when I woke up I found we were listing quite a lot. Went up on deck and found the stern deck was trapped uner the wooden posts we are moored against and the forward and midships lines were stretched bar tight !!!
A little old grp boat had drifted between the bow and the shore and forced the bow out (and subsequently the stern in)...... now pulled out and tied to my bow on the off side completely dry inside but looks like it has been abandoned for a long time .....reckon it will make a decent little painting punt !
Good on you! They DO say what goes around comes around .... x
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 17:15:01 GMT
S'marvelous ... all I did was help someone through staircase locks and I'm branded ... JohnV actually 'finds' a boat and is praised and congratulated for it. So unfair Rog
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 31, 2020 17:20:05 GMT
That river looks really narrow for a big boat, which river is it? The River Styx.
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Post by patty on Aug 1, 2020 6:31:38 GMT
It looks a little bit like a small speed boat. 30hp outboard and JohnV could pretend to be a little boy racer with his long hair blowing in the breeze ...
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Post by JohnV on Aug 1, 2020 7:32:48 GMT
That river looks really narrow for a big boat, which river is it? River Hull which leads to the Driffield navigation (even if it wasn't overgrown, a fixed bridge prevents tall vessels proceeding) most of the Driffield navigation is restored.
the river is desperately weeded, silted, and overgrown with trees which is a shame as it was originally big enough and deep enough to get huge trawlers down from the very busy shipyard in Beverley where they were built (Cooke WMickey*** and Gemmell were once the largest builder of trawlers in the world)
it's crazy that all this has gone in living memory
*** thunderboat regulars will probably guess what this should actually read as
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 1, 2020 8:05:46 GMT
Thunderboat even messes up the Wikipedia link! Try 'ship builders beverley' into Google and you'll get it (C W G) - first entry (at least for me). In 1901–1902 the business moved nine miles up the River Hull to a new yard at Grovehill, Beverley. Launch of the Vera
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