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  1. J R ALSOP
    I always thought it was "Tyburn",
  2. J R ALSOP
    I always was led to believe the fitting on the top of the stern gear was to connect the cooling water outlet from the manifold on the engine. On old Venus engine / stern gear literature it certainly showed pipe from engine and not stern gear to weed hatch or overboard.
  3. J R ALSOP
    After Ian sold the boat, it went to London, owner had a fire on board but I don't know what happened to it afterwards. But I will ask a man on Saturday who might know.
  4. J R ALSOP
    The owner of City of Gloucester was top man at BWB, David Fletcher so he had pick of numbers, we all have a lot to thank him for, free passage through Standedge tunnel, Anderton lift and few more that BWB wanted to charge for.
  5. J R ALSOP
    Watch this space, all is not lost
  6. J R ALSOP
    Passed you in cutting above Tyrley this afternoon, you were enjoying a little drink.
  7. J R ALSOP
    Looks a bit fumy / hazy in there. Do you have CO2 alarm
  8. J R ALSOP
    You have missed the "s" out of Battlesbridge.
  9. J R ALSOP
    I should have said rebuilt,
  10. J R ALSOP
    Was that the one that was built at Nantwich about 40 years ago?
  11. J R ALSOP
    I have a Bukh 2G105 a two cylinder long stroke 29 HP water cooled engine, originally it was raw water cooled but got fed up with all the weed and rubbish getting drawn in, so 20 years ago i fitted a skin cooling tank system with anti freeze. It took about 2 years to stop looking over the side for the water outlet. All Bukh"s are good engines, I installed lots when I worked for Coles Morton Marine in the 70's.
  12. J R ALSOP
    As a youth club we hired "Shirley" from Deans in about 1958, only we had a bucket and chuck it loo, we were told to chuck it over the back, best not do it in a lock. We too went to Llangollen, I never drank water again in Crewe or Chester.
  13. J R ALSOP
    I have a Jabsco 12/24v that increases speed as more demand is needed, pressure out of taps remain constant even with 6 taps on. Will be at boat nest week so will get model no. off it.
  14. J R ALSOP
    The two sanitary stations down the Montgomery are they best I have seen for many a long year.
  15. J R ALSOP
    Very nice ( and a helicoptor ). I am still waiting to see a Bukh tractor as I have a 2G105 in my boat, same as in tractor.
  16. J R ALSOP
    I thought that the Chesterfield had just been shut with low water levels
  17. J R ALSOP
    That was the original RTT, when I worked there from 1985 we started updating the fleet and we built a new one on a Colecraft shell.
  18. J R ALSOP
    My first hire boat experience was with Deans at Chrisleton (Chester) in about 1958/9, it was a plywood cruiser called "Shirley" we went to Llangollen and Norbury. It had a Stuart Turner petrol inboard, the loo was a "bucket and chuckit" never drunk water in Crewe or Chester since, it wasn't Elsan Blue in those days but a phenol creosote liquid, the said pour it over the back as you go along best avoided in a lock.
  19. J R ALSOP
    Hotel boat "Saturn" had one fitted when I worked for Peter Froud in 1962/4 driven by Ford petrol engine, it was fitted midships and was very handy for towing "Jupiter" above Ellesmere on the Llangollen Canal when we had to lift the counter about 12" to get up the feeder.
  20. J R ALSOP
    Yes Poyle went the way of all old wooden boats, the gentleman who owned it sold to someone who was going to take it to Oxford, It wouldn't go up Napton so decided to head that way via Teddington and the Thames. Unfortunately it got only as far as Kings Langley, sank, and it was trashed, it was abandoned, raised and towed to Watford where it broke in half when it was lifted out. I do have some pictures but they are a bit sad to look at.
  21. J R ALSOP
    They are ripping spindles all over the network, people never use the right eye.
  22. J R ALSOP
    I have been under it hundreds of times whilst working down there, it is/ was laminated, but what wood I wouldn't know.
  23. J R ALSOP
    It is laminated I don't do that anymore
  24. J R ALSOP
    Desmo legs and table
  25. J R ALSOP
    Oh no! apart from me and yourself we were the only ones who knew what canals were all about.
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