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I'm a bit late to the party regarding your post but I'm off to an Historic Narrow Boat festival next weekend so if you need any detailed pictures of any part of a narrow boat I'll be happy to help. I'm not sure why you think the plans you have are for "the wrong type" as they're all variation on a theme anyway and the boat pictured at the Ocean above is pretty standard, albeit a bit 'boxier' than some of them out there. -
How about mooring rings? Would explain why in the pictures you can't really see what the boats are moored with. There are also several still in situ along the Stroudwater and Thames & Severn.
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Looking great. The ‘posty thing’ is the top mast with the floppy floppy bit on top being the looby. The top mast which is the red bit on top extends upwards and is in its lowest position in the photo.
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The top strings are at fixed points along the side cloths so would be fairly regular. Boatmen took a lot of pride in the appearance of their boats.
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Yes, that one may be a little smaller but essentially the same. Electric lighting didn’t really come about until the late 1930s with the fleet expansion of the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company. Don’t think I’ve seen a Bollinder with a dynamo fitted as they’re generally far too slow revving. A lot of the single cylinder Bollinders didn’t have gearboxes so in order to get reverse you actually have to run the engine backwards but that’s another topic for another day!
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Traditionally horse boats had oil lamps fitted to the cratch like this. Whether you want to add one or not is up to you as they’d only really be put in place for use in a tunnel or at night.
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The top picture of, I think, Clover is how it should be done whereas the bottom picture of Roach is how most people do it. Both pictures show the square mast and two upright stands supporting the top planks. What you've called intermediate pieces in the top picture are confusingly called uprights and give the top planks a little more support. It's perfectly acceptable to run the boat without the uprights.
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Just on a slight tangent I was down that part of the country at the weekend and this is what the above location looks like today.
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It’s in Stone, Staffordshire.
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I'll have to look through my books on the canal and see if there's anything else I can find on it. I'm sure I've seen a drawing of it somewhere but may be mistaken. The Stroudwater and Thames & Severn canals (now known as the Cotswold Canals) are a bit of a passion of mine. I've been following your topic for a while now and really didn't want my first post on a railway modeling forum to be canal related but couldn't resist!
