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I think this could possibly be a wooden hull with the overlapping metal ice plates ,many years back there was a derelict abandoned ice boat Newport side of lock 1 on the Newport & Shrews-bury canal this was a wooden boat with similar plating non of the BW guys at the Norbury yard could come up with a name It disappeared around the time SUC converted Lock 1 to a dock that would have been around 63/64

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Our old girl Sara is an iceboat, seen here prior to blacking. Her construction consists of both internal frames with double rows of rivets on abutting plates and  overlapped plating around the bow and stern. Presumably the latter was easier to fashion given some of the complex curves.

 

We believe she was built for the Oxford canal company as a horse drawn boat around 1900. At thirty foot she is "short" iceboat and we know little of her working history except that she had ended up at Braunston by 1961 in the company of a 45 foot "long" boat.

 

Regards,

 

Robert 

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19 hours ago, D. W. Walker said:

Is this the ice boat that was up for sale recently? Looks an interesting and unusual boat.

Yes it is. She's at North Kilworth presently having some maintenance before travelling to the Anglian waterways. The present conversion was built by John Matty between 1961 - 1977 (although most of what you see dates from 68 - 77 as she was badly damaged by a fire at the yard he was working). He took his styling from the GJCC directors launch Kingfisher. 

 

I found this photo showing the stem construction.

 

Rob

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