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Post by dogless on Oct 7, 2022 8:41:33 GMT
 Came across these old Banbury photos with wooden boat Hardy front and centre. Coincidental that Hardy is currently back outside Tooley's yard awaiting restoration. It would be interesting to add a third photo from the lift bridge today with the new develooment finished. Rog |
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Post by gazza on Oct 7, 2022 9:30:01 GMT
doglessfrunobulax is a former owner of Hardy  on the evening all tread gazza Avatar Oct 4, 2022 at 8:51pm gazza said: frunobulax Avatar Oct 4, 2022 at 5:59pm frunobulax said: Thanks for letting me in. Long term lurker on TB, and Kev Notts on CWDF. Mainly joined Cwdf for the history section, and joined TB after the great cull of 2016. Dont own a boat, but spent a lot of time on the canals in the 90s. Mainly on 'Hardy' ex Barlows wooden motor. Was Hardy on the Puddlebank mid 2000’s ? I remember a few poorly wooden boats that way including CarlT of CWDF Usk and Lucy. Usk was raked out and turned into fire wood and Lucy seems to have no further updates from Peter Harrison? A quick google sees Hardy at Tooleys in 2018 but no real updates since then? The last time I saw Hardy was in Cropredy late 98, it was lived on by a couple and their young son. They had just bought an ex hotel butty 'Forget me Not' Previous to this I first got to know Sean and Sam who lived on it in about 94, they were CCing the Nottingham area, and dry docked it at Trevithick's boatyard to replace 2 planks on the left including the front bends. I went to help, very interesting handling the steamed green oak to form the curves. They then moved to the long term moorings past Brayford Pool in Lincoln. Been trying to find out the fate of Hardy for years, the last I heard was a post from CarlT 6 years ago, that it was near Braunston and the JP2 had been removed. Good to hear it was in Tooleys in 2018, at least there is some chance it still exists. Many good memories of time spent crewing Hardy.
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Post by dogless on Oct 7, 2022 9:45:00 GMT
frunobulax (how the hell did you come to pick that name 😁) nb Hardy was on a Braunston puddle banks farm mooring for several years (near the old railway 'Pink Floyd' Bridge if you know it). I was told the engine was removed from there. It was subsequently towed to Tooley's yard a few years ago where it promptly sank ... was refloated, and remains to this day, bedecked in banners inviting contributions towards its resoration as the last Samuel Barlow wooden boat. nb Lucy is out of the water under covers at Braunston for about ten years, opposite the turn at Pete Boyce's yard, having also been recovered from a puddle banks farm mooring. A bit like Trigger's brush I'm not sure how much original timber will be left 😁 There is a link for both nb Lucy and nb Hardy with invitations to donate. Hope this helps. Any old photos you have would be interesting. Rog
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Post by gazza on Oct 7, 2022 11:08:54 GMT
frunobulax (how the hell did you come to pick that name 😁) nb Hardy was on a Braunston puddle banks farm mooring for several years (near the old railway 'Pink Floyd' Bridge if you know it). I was told the engine was removed from there. It was subsequently towed to Tooley's yard a few years ago where it promptly sank ... was refloated, and remains to this day, bedecked in banners inviting contributions towards its resoration as the last Samuel Barlow wooden boat. nb Lucy is out of the water under covers at Braunston for about ten years, opposite the turn at Pete Boyce's yard, having also been recovered from a puddle banks farm mooring. A bit like Trigger's brush I'm not sure how much original timber will be left 😁 There is a link for both nb Lucy and nb Hardy with invitations to donate. Hope this helps. Any old photos you have would be interesting. Rog Pete Boyce - of course! Where I got Peter Harrison from i don't know. I remember a thread on CWDF CarlT posting photos of Lucy being recovered with a giant nappy wrapped around her. |
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Post by dogless on Oct 7, 2022 11:22:29 GMT
We popped to the chandlers recently and were trying to have a peep under the tarpaulins ... it's stripped to the bare bones with lots of new timber evident.
Going to be a long labour of love.
Rog
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