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Post by Andyberg on Aug 12, 2021 19:35:50 GMT
Well I like Hudsons and would own one tomorrow!👍
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 19:36:41 GMT
I have always been known to have an unusual eye for detail and I promise you that a SMH bow does not closely resemble the bow of a FMC Josher. Ok so the old boats were all a little bit different on account of things like hand forged plating and several different yards constructing the boats but they were broadly similar.
There are some producers of replicas which are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing other than obvious age related things.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 19:37:13 GMT
Well I like Hudsons and would own one tomorrow!👍 Yes but you arrr a Porsche driver
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 12, 2021 19:39:48 GMT
Well I like Hudsons and would own one tomorrow!👍 You already do, more or less!
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Post by Andyberg on Aug 12, 2021 19:40:34 GMT
Well I like Hudsons and would own one tomorrow!👍 Yes but you arrr a Porsche driver Impeccable taste see! 👍
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 19:41:47 GMT
It's true that Barry Hawkins tapped into the same market as Steve Hudson.
Prior to that he (Hawkins) did some quite incredibly harpoon-like bows you could sink a battlecruiser with.
I'm sure they were against the BW byelaws of the time as you could not get a fender on the front.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 19:43:08 GMT
Yes but you arrr a Porsche driver Impeccable taste see! 👍 Yes but I thought we won the war !
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Post by Andyberg on Aug 12, 2021 19:51:30 GMT
I tried to buy a Trad from Hawkins yard @ Litchfield in about 2008, it was spray foamed with the boatmans cabin fitted and a vintage lister with day tank etc, the rest a blank canvas. Agreed a price but it had glass panels in the doors and glass side windows next to the doors at the front, I stipulated that I wanted the front all steel which he said was no issue but wouldnt do it in the price so the deal never happened! I last heard that boat had been moored in Penkerage for the last 12 years or so in the same unfinished state.
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Post by Andyberg on Aug 12, 2021 19:59:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 20:09:32 GMT
11 of the rivets are in the wrong place.
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Post by Andyberg on Aug 12, 2021 20:11:35 GMT
Doubt Ill get a refund if I complain alas.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 20:13:44 GMT
That's upsetting. Oh well never mind you'll probably be okay.
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Post by Andyberg on Aug 12, 2021 20:15:00 GMT
Interesting that theres a 71 foot RW Davis Northwich tug up on bricks here that I know from Burscough awaiting a broken crank fix on his Gardner via insurance, Interesting noting the similarities and the differences in the 2 builders interpretations.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 20:18:34 GMT
The dollies on the RW Davis boats are too long.
Quality boats but unless those are taken through the deck plating and reinforced there is a risk of pulling one of them out if the eye in the rope ends up at the top.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 12, 2021 22:59:50 GMT
I think I am right judging by your slightly defensive stance on this. my slightly defensive attitude is because in person, people say “what a nice looking boat” etc. Whereas on Internet forums, this and CWDF, many people say how much they dislike the bow, ugly, a caricature etc etc. Meanwhile in many cases they themselves have some piece of ugly old junk. It’s just sour grapes, rude and nasty. So I don’t see why I shouldn’t point this out. I have heard people say about Sabina H "what a pretty boat" ................... Yeah !!!
Sabina's bow is so bluff that it makes the average Humber barge bow look like clipper ............ it's more like a buldozer blade
the term pointy end refers to her stern which does have a nice shape
I love her and she is a solid safe workmanlike vessel ................... but no one who has eyes and sense would call her pretty
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