Martin Ludgate wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Arlidge > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> As you will have noticed BW proposes a £50 surcharge on all boats >> over 6ft >> 10ins wide...so that will include most ex-working (and many replica) >> narrowboats built to the correct gauge of 7ft, or spread to 7ft >> 2ins!? > > To be pedantic - a large proportion of the surviving (ex) working > nbs are from the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co, whose craft > were originally 7ft 0.5in wide. > > PS perhaps we need a new name for boats between 6ft 10in and > 7ft 0.5in wide. How about 'thin boats'? That's nice and easy to > understand...
Would Adrian "BW basher" agree? ;-) When Erne-Nest was gauged by the HNC lads they were horrified to find that it was exactly 6ft 10ins on all the (many) points they gauged. That brings me onto another point with modern narrowboats, I am sure many people have no idea exactly how long their new boat is, many builders giving them some "extra" length, because they could not be bothered to cut the odd few inches off the plates. When Erne-Nest was just a hull, I measured it very accurately by measuring between two plates that Lee the fabricator stood up against the bow and stern. I was horrified to find is was quarter of an inch longer than specified. Lee smiled and said sorry he forgot to allow for the thickness of the rubbing strake round the stern! :-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - a decade old next April... Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
