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Fred
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trevork
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 Posted - 19 Jun 2019 : 00:17:58
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| Thanks Fred, wondered if it would be yourself or Clive that came up with the answer. |
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cliveshep
Thailand
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Posted - 20 Jun 2019 : 13:52:06
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That's a CB18. I had a CB15 for a year or so, our first cabin boat. Cooking and washing up in two boxes I built in the cockpit, managed to squeeze a toilet into it using the whole width of the boat. Mine had half the cabin roof cut away and raised, still not full headroom of course but it made using the Elson possible.
I made the windscreen, trimmed with ali angle, the hood frame was 3/8" gas barrel removed from under the floors of a conversion in London to flats of an old house, the hood was plastic from Transatlantic Plastics in Surbiton.
Engine was an old Perkins 6hp carried over from a previous boat, later replaced with an Evinrude 35hp electric start, and finally a Chrysler 9.9 carried over onto a brand-new Norman 20 from Ladyline of Barbridge. We took the CB up the Shroppie and Langollen canals as far as Horseshoe falls and ordered the Norman on the way back for delivery 3 months later. Ladyline took the beat-up old CB and it's trailer in part ex.
Edit - CB boats dated themselves by that pronounced tumblehome aft more suited to ships of the line in earlier centuries. I can tell you that it would plane quite happily with the 35hp so long as you kept it in a straight line because if you tried to turn it on the plane the inward angle of the tumblehome caused it to heel outwards on the turn in a most alarming manner such that there was a real chance of a high-speed capsize.
The brand new Norman 20 was rubbish with an outboard, and I got some gel-coat from Ladyline, glassed-in the transom, fitted engine bearers, a brand-new Ford 1600 cross-flow and a new Enfield 130 stern-drive and home made trim-tabs and it became a glorious fast off-shore sea-boat I used regularly to zip between Langstone and Bembridge to my parents house on the Harbour there.
Finally living the dream!
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Freyasday
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Jun 2019 : 18:00:04
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Thank you very, very much, Fred and Cliveshep, and to Trevork for putting the picture up!
We didn't get it as a kit, for sure! Quite how four of us (2 adults, 2 children aged 11 and 13) and a dog went all the way to Tewkesbury and back (from the Bridgewater in 1963) in a boat that size, I'm not sure! It was called Goupi because my Dad had a bet on a horse of that name, which won him enough money to buy the boat!!! It had a Suzuki petrol outboard as far as I can remember and we kept breaking shearpins.
Cooking was done on a two-burner methylated spirits stove and the loo was in a box between the front berth and one of the coffin berths. I recall my brother and I were whizzes as lock operators.
I so loved the time we had the boat (it had to go when Dad's eyesight failed due to various problems) I later entered a competion at school where we had to write about an educational holiday that we would actually be able to undertake. I wrote passionately about canals (nature, history, civil engineering and transport) and won! That was the start of a group of friends going each Easter for a one week canal trip until we all went off to college and uni.
Sadly just had to part with our Norman 20 due to mobility issues, which we'd had for three years.
Thank you again for the identification. Delighted to have that photo finally tracked down by my niece and delighted to know what the boat was. |
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Freyasday
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Jun 2019 : 19:28:22
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| Just hunting on Google to try and find information but drawing a complete blank. Ah, well - I'll keep trying! |
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Fred
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Freyasday
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 Nov 2019 : 06:27:20
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Originally posted by Fred
There is one picture of a CB15 lurking in the depths of google, Sally.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cb boats&tbm=isch&source=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRuY7brvriAhVzolwKHelXAnoQsAR6BAgEEAE&biw=1829&bih=917 br /
Great story all round. So sorry that your boating has now been curtailed but lots of wonderful memories!
Better link here:
https://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/Inland-Cruisers-for-sale/cb-boats-cb-15-delux/257925
Many, many thanks. So sorry it's been such a long time since I was last on this site. Delighted with those links and will keep them bookmarked. Sally |
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