tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14456804541211514292011-04-21T21:46:05.187-07:00The fool hardy exploits of an inexperienced couple of new narrowboaters..Mark Wrendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975406251407453060noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445680454121151429.post-52016511303288821752009-05-27T14:51:00.000-07:002009-05-27T15:15:29.772-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_czk53ciRWaY/Sh25eizWPRI/AAAAAAAAAAk/SgMhY_1HX04/s1600-h/b436_1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340628667520662802" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_czk53ciRWaY/Sh25eizWPRI/AAAAAAAAAAk/SgMhY_1HX04/s320/b436_1.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czk53ciRWaY/Sh22p0RixMI/AAAAAAAAAAc/w9y0ItreU1Q/s1600-h/Photo-0041.jpeg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340625562654393538" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czk53ciRWaY/Sh22p0RixMI/AAAAAAAAAAc/w9y0ItreU1Q/s320/Photo-0041.jpeg" /></a><br /><br /><div>Hi , I am starting this blog to try and keep a record of sorts about the narrowboat we have just bought.</div><br /><div>Well our introduction to boating started last August when we purchased a 1974 Callumcraft cabin cruiser. Having brought the boat back to Yorkshire and secured a mooring in Brighouse, we have had an absolute wheeze of a time playing around on the Calder and hebble Navigation and the Rochdale Canal in her.</div><br /><div>Yet my partner Evelyn still yearned for a narrowboat, only a shortish one but still something that was a bit more stable as you got on and off.</div><br /><div>So after looking around various places and at a few boats we spotted just the thing, "Bhan Cloan" a 36ft narrowboat for sale at West Stockwith at the junction of the Chesterfield Canal and the river Trent.</div><br /><div>Evelyn went to see it while I was at work and fell in love with her straight away. After going down myself a few days later I knew that her instincts had been right and that "Bhan Cloan" as the one for us. </div><br /><div>So after all the usual stuff, we are now the owners of a re-named " Barking Mad".</div><div>After a couple of weeks doing some work on her, including getting a new BSS cert, not a lot really to do for that , just replace old rubber hoses and away we go, we were ready to hit the water.</div><div>Barking Mad was to be re-launched on the 16th may, my birthday. </div><div> </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1445680454121151429-5201651130328882175?l=barkingmadnarrowboatadventures.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Wrendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975406251407453060noreply@blogger.com0