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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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Granny Buttons: October 2011 posts

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My own private thoughts and ignorance about the canals and waterways. (And no-one else's, except as quoted.). Subscribe in a reader. Subscribe to Granny Buttons by Email. Laquo; September 2011. November 2011 ». Sunday, 23 October 2011. Neil publishes his Herbie blog as a colour 'keepsake'. For several years, one of the most practically useful of all canal blogs has been Neil Corbett's. Or in the words of the blog title: '. Journeys on our narrowboat and the trials and tribulations of maintaining her.

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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...

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NB Oleanna: May 2016

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The Build of Narrowboat Oleanna. Wednesday, 11 May 2016. Contract and more research. Whilst we've been busy boating on the Thames our contract and schedules have been put together. These were emailed through to us on the 5th May. A couple of small amendments needed to be made so we called Julia and these were very quickly fixed and re-emailed. But in the end we spotted a boat we've been playing leap frog with for several days in Banbury, so we pulled in and asked them and they obliged. Thank you! 10 ligh...

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NB Oleanna: March 2016

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The Build of Narrowboat Oleanna. Thursday, 31 March 2016. Today we got news that our shell was moved to Sheffield last week. Hopefully we'll get more photos of her build through from Tim. In Sheffield she will have the finishing touches of the steelwork done, followed by all the technical stuff and fit out. Best keep our cruising ahead of schedule so that we can head to Sheffield when needed, we have a deadline to get to London in two weeks. More photos when we get them. Friday, 18 March 2016. Back down ...

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NB Oleanna: September 2016

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The Build of Narrowboat Oleanna. Thursday, 29 September 2016. Sofa Bed and worktops. Over the last week we've been trying to get to look at samples of worktop for the galley and bathroom. A trip to John Lewis in Sheffield gave us one option not holey satisfying. Hunting round on the internet can point you in the right direction but you still need to see a sample to know exactly what they look like. Adam from NB Briar Rose mentioned Silestone. One, a couple more possibilities. All the amendments are easy ...

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The Blog That Used to be Starcross: Update on That Barrow

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The Blog That Used to be Starcross. Boats, Beer and Buses. Monday, 13 July 2015. Update on That Barrow. Despite the month-long stoppage at the Lune Aqueduct, CRT has asked its volunteer moorings wardens to continue checks. I check the busy Lancaster moorings more often than the rest of my patch and last Friday, after doing so, I continued up to the breach to see what was going on. CRT staff have installed a rather impressive pipe along the towpath to secure the water supply for the section below the leak.