I've just been looking at the lister gardener narrowboat engines used in the old working boats, the good old days as they say but some are still used on the restored boats now, what a piece of engineering brilliance, getting up at the crack of dawn and while the breakfast is cooking going into the engine room and cranking over that great handle, will she won't she ,come on fire you thing, and then the sudden burst of life she goes , the musical notes of the engine as she sings out her morning call, wow , brilliant, the smoke pumping spueing out of her chimney, having breakfast at the tiller while navigating the twist and turns of the canal. These working men I stand and applaud work was work in those days and men were men. Are there any members on here still using these boats for now not work but leisure and any pics please,
Ian.