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Rose of Arden: The View From Over Here (1)
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Friday, 22 May 2015. The View From Over Here (1). The View From Over Here. Is an occasional series of observations of life along the canal and river network. It gives this writers perceptions of what he sees, hears and learns from other people and sources. From the very first day of the take over in 1948 from the old owners by the British Transport Commission. Through all the various management incarnations right up to the latest. The View From Over Here. As if they don't want us to know - or because the...
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NB Oleanna: August 2015
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The Build of Narrowboat Oleanna. Thursday, 6 August 2015. Meeting 1 Sheffield 6th August. Today we have headed from Marple on the train to Jonathan Wilson's boatyard in Sheffield. This was to be a meeting with Ken and Julia Warriner who are acting as consultants on the boat builds. Ken and Julia founded Fernwood Boats and built 90 bespoke boats until they sold the business a few years ago. We don't want to avoid these locks, so an extra 2ft is not an option, but we can manage an extra 6 inches. Going bes...
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Dukinfield Fingers and Jobs 12th August | NB Lillyanne
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The Travels of Narrowboat Lillyanne. Dukinfield Fingers and Jobs 12th August. View along the River Tame from near our mooring. Once breakfast was sorted it was finger dressing time for me. Behind Portland Basin Museum across the A635 is Ashton Walk-in Centre. On all websites when you want to plan your route to walk there they give you the long way round! About a 40 minute walk. Secret invisible bridge on the right. Portland Basin Museum on the left. I’ve got fingers again! During the afternoon NB Manderl...
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April | 2015 | NB Lillyanne
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The Travels of Narrowboat Lillyanne. Monthly Archives: April 2015. Droitwich to Haven’t we been here before! Boats were moving before 8am today, two pulled in in front of us, marquees were being erected, time to make waves before we had to lend a hand. Tents, refreshments and loos going up in the park for this weekends festival. Lillians heavy bottom does help in such situations. New concrete staircase locks. An emptying side pond. 8 locks, (2 a staircase), 2.69 miles, 3 swing bridges, 1 full water t...
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Sonia Louise: January 2015
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Our boat is now complete. Tuesday, 6 January 2015. Days 6 and 7. I've left the second half of our holiday blog till now, due mainly to lack of time but also as something nice to think and write about during the winter. Kingfisher near Fradley Junction. Our day finished at the Samual Barlow pub, Alvecote, just short of Polesworth our day 9 mooring last time we did this route. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kendra Erin - built by Bluewater Boats. Matilda Rose MV Francoise. Days 6 and 7. The 'Manly Ferry' blog.
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Rose of Arden: June 2015
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Spring Summer Cruse 2015 ❷❼. Sabrina Footbridge Worcester to Upton Visitor Moorings. Date 30 June 2015. Overnight the weather was very warm. We decided to make for an early start as we new we might have a long cruising day if moorings were unavailable. Steady cruise and we ended up having to breast up with a boat on either side. I'm hoping that I have convinced them to write up their adventure. Long Tailed Tit, Coot, Moorhen. Butterflies: Meadow Brown, Skipper, Red Admiral. Cyclist...
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Travelling in No Direction: February 2013
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Travelling in No Direction. No Direction is our 70ft Narrowboat which is now home to my wife Jayne and myself, it was launched on 4th February 2008. We spend the Winters in a Marina and cruise in the warmer weather. Thursday, 28 February 2013. More on the Fradley Jetty. Thursday, 28th February 2013. The new jetty at Fradley looks like it's finished now with the handrails in place. There's also temporary signs attached which say "No Mooring Permit Holders Only" which doesn't sound good. During the week Ja...
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Friends Aboard NB Tacet: Gargrave & Beautiful Scenery
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Friends Aboard NB Tacet. We our starting a year long adventure aboard Tacet. Please join us whilst we are enjoy it. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Gargrave and Beautiful Scenery. We left our lovely mooring on Friday mooring and had a really leisurely cruise taking in all the wonderful scenery this part of the Leeds and Liverpool is really wonderful. The canal twists and turns and is so much fun to cruise on especially when the sun is shining and the skies are blue. Sheep and Blue skies. Time for a Drink as its.
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NB Oleanna: January 2016
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The Build of Narrowboat Oleanna. Thursday, 28 January 2016. The last couple of days have been spent updating plans to Version N. With the layout plan updated I finished off the port and starboard internal elevations, positioning the windows as I went. I then did an external elevation of both sides just to check that the positions looked well spaced and they do. Houdini was concerned at the size of her cat flap on the original model. We will still have feline access, just need a new ships cat. The other b...
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NB Oleanna: Name and Number
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The Build of Narrowboat Oleanna. Wednesday, 30 November 2016. We were in Sheffield very early today so that we could meet up with Andy Russell the sign writer. Andy had arrived before us and was starting to mark out Oleanna's name on the cabin side in china graph. The pictures of my model had been printed out for him. Rather than measure up he had gauged the size I was after by eye and was using his mahl stick as a straight edge and to measure up. He worked quickly and efficiently. The control panel is i...
