alan_fincher Posted June 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 3 hours ago, koukouvagia said: Cantley, a Town Class Woolwich with mooring at Rickmansworth. Apologies if this has been noted before. http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=475720 Yes, they have been putting an ad up for this boat on and off for a while. I think that astronomic price is probably now lower than it started. I wonder what security of tenure you have on those (presumably private?) moorings. Clearly that is what much of the pricing is about. (Incidentally, I think the boat was on that same mooring in the early 1970s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenataomm Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 Is Cantley a Woolwich Trader, or perhaps a Water Treader? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloudinspector Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 Motorised butty Capella https://m.apolloduck.com/advert.phtml?id=521172 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 On 13/06/2017 at 10:40, IanM said: Pity it is for sale with the mooring, I'd quite like that. I'm curious to know how one can sell a rented mooring. It says the mooring is "transferrable", but this is almost certainly only possible with the landlord's approval which may not be guaranteed to be forthcoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 That is true. It requires a degree of vetting and goodwill. Also possibly "key" money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 And if the landlord twigs that the boat on his mooring is being sold for £40k more than the boat would be worth *not* on his mooring, he would be well within his rights to expect some (or all) of that £40k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koukouvagia Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 Bellatrix is for sale (£50K) according to the latest edition of the HNBC magazine. Apologies if it's been advertised before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted June 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 14/06/2017 at 15:35, Cloudinspector said: Motorised butty Capella https://m.apolloduck.com/advert.phtml?id=521172 Quote Note - Capella is spread so is limited to wide canals. That's one hell of a limitation for a boat with a £50K price tag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 1 hour ago, alan_fincher said: That's one hell of a limitation for a boat with a £50K price tag! Can't see properly but looks like no full length gunnells (gunwhales) either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koukouvagia Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 2 hours ago, alan_fincher said: That's one hell of a limitation for a boat with a £50K price tag! If I were interested in this boat I'd want to know whether it has a steel bottom; whether the main cabin is wood or steel and whether there are any steel A frames to prevent the boat spreading further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulu fish Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 49 minutes ago, mark99 said: Can't see properly but looks like no full length gunnells (gunwhales) either. gunwales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) Gun-wales or gun-nels, a prop for the ships guns. The Harmers did much work on CAPELLA during the eighties. A full survey would reveal how the vessel is now. And no, there are no gunnels, CAPELLA having been a butty all its life. [ETA: I suppose that's not strictly true, as when 'with cloths', the gunnels could have been walked along.] Edited June 19, 2017 by Derek R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 18/06/2017 at 21:43, lulu fish said: gunwales How rude, to kerrect someones speeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsk Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 Its nice to look at and covertable but that's a silly price isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 9 hours ago, Derek R. said: Gun-wales or gun-nels, a prop for the ships guns For shooting Whales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 N-o-o, that was done from the bow. A grizzly procedure. Doesn't bear going into detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-B Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Snipped from London Boaters Facebook......... a Longboat ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pluto Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 The term 'long boat' is used in regard to L&LC craft to differentiate them from the 'short boats' which could work over the summit. The A&CN made the same differentiation between boats that could, or couldn't, work onto the C&HN. The advert seems to have been written by a southerner, a group which has devastated the north economically, just as the Vikings did when they came over in their longboats centuries ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloudinspector Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 4 hours ago, Chris-B said: Snipped from London Boaters Facebook......... a Longboat ..... This should be up north where it belongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughty Cal Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 1 hour ago, Cloudinspector said: This should be up north where it belongs. Agreed but nobody up north is going to pay that price for the boat and transfer of the mooring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRP Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Lovely though it is as a houseboat, there's probably more usability if it stays in the South. In the North West, Wigan to Liverpool wouldn't stay magical forever, and the Bridgewater isn't magical to begin with. In the North East, there is a friendly community of boaters on the Aire and Calder, but then what? Adventures on the Ouse or the Trent? If I worked in London, I'd snap your hand off for a comfortable 3-bedroomed flat at that price! And for it to be a glorious old boat as well! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted June 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 On 17/06/2017 at 14:42, koukouvagia said: Bellatrix is for sale (£50K) according to the latest edition of the HNBC magazine. Apologies if it's been advertised before. Interestingly it reads as if it still has wooden bottoms. I can't think of too many unconverted "small" GUCCCo motor boats that still applies to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie57 Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Only three little Woolwich motors still with wooden bottoms, two of which are converted and only one unconverted......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanM Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 I believe Denebola has wooden bottoms still and is unconverted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Sculptor being another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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