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Post by kris on Mar 22, 2024 14:47:33 GMT
Doesn't look like it will sail particularly well. No,it looks like the masts and sails where added as an after thought. Also aluminium on paper is a good material boats but it’s a pain in the arse to weld. I quite fancy a small aluminium tender, but don’t think I’d want a big aluminium boat especially on salt water. Moor next to a steel boat with stray currents and it probably wouldn’t last long.
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 14:58:18 GMT
Yes it might be an anode.
I wonder if that was yard produced or a DIY job.
Looks a bit home made. I think the masts are original particularly the one behind the wheelhouse. It seems to have been let into the structure in quite a deliberate way.
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Post by kris on Mar 22, 2024 15:06:44 GMT
It just looks a bit strange, I’m sure it was built like that but? Put livaboard into eBay there are loads of widebeams for sale. I wonder if crts pricing policy is having an effect? It would be good if it cuts down on the number of fugly “wide narrowboats.” Pity they didn’t exempt historic widebeams because the widebeam surcharge is definately effecting the chances of survival of the big old working boats.
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 15:09:10 GMT
Everyone is thinking of living on a widebeam. I imagine the turnover rate is very fast.
When I started living on Boats 30 yars ago in April 4th one could count these things on one hand. Now they are everywhere.
Mad shit.
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Post by kris on Mar 22, 2024 15:14:53 GMT
Everyone is thinking of living on a widebeam. I imagine the turnover rate is very fast. When I started living on Boats 30 yars ago in April 4th one could count these things on one hand. Now they are everywhere. Mad shit. Yes the prevalence of them is astounding. I’m sure crts widebeam surcharge is partially to do with trying to discourage people from widebeam owner ship. Locking the stable door after the horse as bolted. Unfortunately it’s having negative effects on the survival chances of the big old working boats.
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 15:19:46 GMT
Yes it is also filling the River up something shocking.
Old Boats have always had a lifetime followed by scrappage. Its not that bad to lose old Boats. If there are fewer of them around then those that remain will become more interesting and desirable over time.
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Post by kris on Mar 22, 2024 15:50:20 GMT
Yes it is also filling the River up something shocking. Old Boats have always had a lifetime followed by scrappage. Its not that bad to lose old Boats. If there are fewer of them around then those that remain will become more interesting and desirable over time. until there aren’t any left then the context of the heritage has gone.
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 15:52:01 GMT
It is sad we don't have any coal burning battle cruisers left.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 22, 2024 16:04:36 GMT
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 16:07:57 GMT
By 'we' I was mostly thinking of the islands.
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 16:11:09 GMT
USS Texas
"On 31 July 1925,[38] she entered Norfolk Navy Yard for a major modernization overhaul. The overhaul, which replaced both cage masts with tripod masts, replaced her 14 Babcock & Wilcox coal-fired boilers with 6 Bureau Express oil-fired boilers,[6"
ooops !
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 16:11:39 GMT
It is sad we don't have any coal burning battle cruisers left.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 22, 2024 16:12:23 GMT
Well it used to be!
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 22, 2024 16:13:09 GMT
Always picking holes is your problem
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Post by on Mar 22, 2024 16:13:17 GMT
There is that.
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