End of an era for me.

[pete.i]

Well Keb, my 30 foot narrowboat, has been sold. It all happened very very quickly and I got what I paid for it five years ago so I am happy. Sad to see the boat go but it has gone to good owners and it has only moved across the canal from me. The chap who has bought it very much a novice (as we all were once in spite of those that think they know it all) in both boat handling and engines etc maintainence so I think I will still be involved with Keb for a while to come yet.

 

I haven't given up the canals but I have bought a "yogurt pot" with a 25HP outboard. I don't think I will be asking too much advice on here. Partly because us "yogurt pot" owners seem to be frowned upon and generally disparaged here and also because as far as I am aware there isn't a huge amount of knowledge about outboad engines. I will concede that I could be very wrong on that last point.

 

Anyway I would like to thank all those that have offered advice to me here and to all those that have asnswered my questions in other threads that I haven't started but I have a general interest in. I would, especially,, like to thank Leo who used to own Keb, Tony Brookes and RLWP for the help and advice thay have given me on here.

 

So there it is on and upward as they say. No doubt I will pop in occasionally and maybe ask the odd BMC 1.5 question. I was never a prolific contributer so probably nothing will change.

[Barge Maria]

But you were thoughtful enough to offer thanks here Pete which says a lot about you. Good luck with your boating mate.

[Ray T]

Best wishes, I certainly don't look down on "yogurt pot" owners as it was such that were very much involved in the renaissance of the canals after the working days. Look here, far more cruisers than narrow boats!

 

Braunston Marina

Edited June 27, 2015 by Ray T

[larkshall]

But you were thoughtful enough to offer thanks here Pete which says a lot about you. Good luck with your boating mate.

I'd second that mate. Dunno perhaps you could start a specialist section on outboards, someone needs to

Oh have a greenie as well

[pete.i]

LOL thank you for that Mr Larkshall. I'm only just down the road from you in Thorpe Willoughby. And you are right Ray where I am moored at the moment in Goole Boathouse there is an abundance of cruisers and very few narrowboats. But you have to admit that on this forum "yogurt pot" owners do tend to get a bit of a bad press from some.

[John V]

I have not noted much of an anti Yoghurt pot flavour on here (speaking as someone who really likes theirs and uses it to cruise the narrow canals)087 by mudlarker2, on Flickr

[Guest]

LOL thank you for that Mr Larkshall. I'm only just down the road from you in Thorpe Willoughby. And you are right Ray where I am moored at the moment in Goole Boathouse there is an abundance of cruisers and very few narrowboats. But you have to admit that on this forum "yogurt pot" owners do tend to get a bit of a bad press from some.

Can you please link to some evidence of these anti GRP comments?

 

I have never sensed it other than the occasional leg pull not much different to what us pram hood owners ge or that directed at WB owners.

 

Good luck with your new boat BTW.

 

Anyway some of the so called yogurt pots up north are quite clearly far superior vessels to your average steel NB.

Edited June 27, 2015 by MJG

[LEO]

Good Luck Pete, I will reply to your note soon - I started out in Norman in 1975 - with Honda outboard.

 

The one you are buying looks neat.

 

Nice to know what happens to KEB - a great boat.

 

Mike.

[LEO]

Best wishes, I certainly don't look down on "yogurt pot" owners as it was such that were very much involved in the renaissance of the canals after the working days. Look here, far more cruisers than narrow boats!

 

Braunston Marina

 

 

Picture brings back lots of memories... I was up there yesterday....Just out of picture is the Ladyline building where my mate bought the Norman............

 

One of the cottages on the LH side of the pic is For Sale - both have been modernised.

 

Thanks

 

L.

[pete.i]

Hi Leo.

Thanks. I have given the chap who has bought Keb your email and told him why you have an interest in Keb. He seemed very keen to contact you so hopefully he will contact you soon.

[scrumpylurcher]

 

 

Picture brings back lots of memories... I was up there yesterday....Just out of picture is the Ladyline building where my mate bought the Norman............

 

One of the cottages on the LH side of the pic is For Sale - both have been modernised.

 

Thanks

 

L.

These cottages have been extended, it had been one house for some years but is now divided back into two. It appears the going rate is £500,000

[Scholar Gypsy]

 

 

Picture brings back lots of memories... I was up there yesterday....Just out of picture is the Ladyline building where my mate bought the Norman............

 

 

Thanks

 

L.

 

And for me too. We bought our first yogurt pot at Ladyline in Braunston in 1970 (Shetland 535). I think this is somewhere on the GU?

 

 

A year or so later we decided we needed something bigger so upgraded to this (Shetland 570) - I am on the helm ... No idea where, possibly the Leicester line as the name is not yet on the transom?

 

Edited June 27, 2015 by Scholar Gypsy

[Southern Star]

Admittedly I've only been on the waterways for a year, but I haven't noticed any type of animosity towards yoghurt pots at all, other than their nickname being "yoghurt pots".

 

At Brinklow Marina, the western side where the shorter boats, such as mine, moor is known as the "Council Side". I don't take this as anything other than light-hearted joshing.

 

I would personally consider it to be a matter of pride that if a fellow boater needed help, then I would pitch in and help, whether he had paid £100,000 or £500 for his boat.

[Phil Ambrose]

LOL thank you for that Mr Larkshall. I'm only just down the road from you in Thorpe Willoughby. And you are right Ray where I am moored at the moment in Goole Boathouse there is an abundance of cruisers and very few narrowboats. But you have to admit that on this forum "yogurt pot" owners do tend to get a bit of a bad press from some.

The bad press only comes from ignorance, though I have a NB at present, we did live and cruise very comfortably on a GRP cruiser.

Phil

 

ETA when I first joined up there was a certain amount of animosity to owners of so called yoghurt pots. I can remember someone telling Rachael to go and join a lumpy stuff forum, I was questioned as to why I joined a NB forum. Then there were all the old wives tales that got trotted out as in "they fall apart at the sight of ice, they soak up water, they are cold, damp, they have to come out of the water every year to dry out" so yea I know were the OP is coming from.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Phil Ambrose

[jollymoggy]

Some of these yoghurt pots can cost more than some of the springers you see about. I've considered a yoghurt pot before I got a NB. I only worry about yoghurt pots because I doubt they can stand the bashing into the sides as much as my NB can...

The bad press only comes from ignorance, though I have a NB at present, we did live and cruise very comfortably on a GRP cruiser.
Phil

ETA when I first joined up there was a certain amount of animosity to owners of so called yoghurt pots. I can remember someone telling Rachael to go and join a lumpy stuff forum, I was questioned as to why I joined a NB forum. Then there were all the old wives tales that got trotted out as in "they fall apart at the sight of ice, they soak up water, they are cold, damp, they have to come out of the water every year to dry out" so yea I know were the OP is coming from.

[Galeomma]

I really liked my Dawncraft 27. It had as much room in 27 ft as my 38 ft narrow boat seems to have!

 

The only thing I used to be frightened going through locks single handed, with the steel boat, no problem.

[ROBDEN]

One grp = a "yoghurt pot"

 

Two or more grps = a "Tuppaware party".

 

But hey you're still on the water.

 

I wish you well.

 

Rob....

[Phil Ambrose]

One grp = a "yoghurt pot"

 

Two or more grps = a "Tuppaware party".

 

But hey you're still on the water.

 

I wish you well.

 

Rob....

One NB = a sewer tube

 

Two or more NBs = a sewage works.

Phil

[ROBDEN]

Collective noun for Narrowboats anyone???

[Arthur Marshall]

I bought my nb about thirty years ago and am quite aware that the time will come fairly soon when I can no longer afford to maintain it and may find it too heavy to heave in and out of locks. So my plan is to do what you have done, sell it at that time, probably for what I paid for it thirty years back as it'll need a fair bit of work on it and buy a yoghurt pot, though i think I'd rather have one with an inbult diesel engine rather than an outboard. Anyone know if there's any great advantage either way?

And I wouldn't expect any ant-GRP sentiment either - it's only goodnatured stuff, like the war between us rusty buggers and the shiny brigade.

[1agos]

We had GRP boats on the Thames in the 80's . Including a Freeman 22 with a Ford 105e(think Ford Anglia) engine. It had a fantastic walnut interior.

 

Our last Grp boat was a Birchwood GT33( named 'Restdays' I've often wondered where she is now) with twin ford diesel engines, at the time we thought we had arrived.

 

Little did we know then that we wouldn't truly arrive till we retired on to our narrowboat.

[craftycarper]

Well Keb, my 30 foot narrowboat, has been sold. It all happened very very quickly and I got what I paid for it five years ago so I am happy. Sad to see the boat go but it has gone to good owners and it has only moved across the canal from me. The chap who has bought it very much a novice (as we all were once in spite of those that think they know it all) in both boat handling and engines etc maintainence so I think I will still be involved with Keb for a while to come yet.

 

I haven't given up the canals but I have bought a "yogurt pot" with a 25HP outboard. I don't think I will be asking too much advice on here. Partly because us "yogurt pot" owners seem to be frowned upon and generally disparaged here and also because as far as I am aware there isn't a huge amount of knowledge about outboad engines. I will concede that I could be very wrong on that last point.

 

Anyway I would like to thank all those that have offered advice to me here and to all those that have asnswered my questions in other threads that I haven't started but I have a general interest in. I would, especially,, like to thank Leo who used to own Keb, Tony Brookes and RLWP for the help and advice thay have given me on here.

 

So there it is on and upward as they say. No doubt I will pop in occasionally and maybe ask the odd BMC 1.5 question. I was never a prolific contributer so probably nothing will change.

. I bought a yoghurt pot out of choice, as it suits my circumstances, I don't feel superior or inferior to anyone else, and the name of this site is canalworld, not steel world or narrorowboat world, I fish in canals,cycle along canals,walk my dogs along the canal and finally have got a plastic boat on a canal, all of these things are catered for here,I also fix and service my own outboard, so may even be able to answer the odd query, goodluck

[Laurie Booth]

Can you please link to some evidence of these anti GRP comments?

 

I have never sensed it other than the occasional leg pull not much different to what us pram hood owners ge or that directed at WB owners.

 

Good luck with your new boat BTW.

 

Anyway some of the so called yogurt pots up north are quite clearly far superior vessels to your average steel NB.

Try owning a Springer

Collective noun for Narrowboats anyone???

Iron Brigade.

[churchward]

Collective noun for Narrowboats anyone???

A whine or winge?