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Advertisments for July/August 2008

Trade:

thames link marine advert BW Mooring Tenders - 01923 201120

Satellite Televisions and equipment by TravelSat - Click for details or phone Martyn on 07914 401036 (188kb advert)

Crochet Cabin Lace, handmade to order.  Porthole hoops to keep your lace in place.  Phone 07966 753807 or visit website: www.suzohandicrafts.com

Residential Marine Finance  RoyScot Larch Ltd, 01235 438280 or www.royscotlarch.co.uk

Cheaper bottles of GAS
for RBOA members via the Dutch Barge Association.  Please note the change of telephone numbers: to set up a new account call 0116-2649112.  Once you have an account, to reorder call 0800-574574 or your local Flogas depot.

FOR SALE:

60ft trad narrowboat DUKE, built 2000.  Hull by Evans & Son, fit out by Les Wilson.  Lister HA2 (1962 vintage) diesel engine with Blackstone gearbox.  Boatman’s cabin + fixed double berth.  4 domestic and 2 engine batteries. Electrolux Travelpower and Victron Phoenix 1600 inverter charger provide 230V mains power.  Refleks diesel stove central heating.  Saloon has a Wilson’s sofa-bed, armchair and gate leg table.  BSS Aug 2012, BW licence Oct 2008.  Good live-aboard or long term cruising boat.  Asking price £69,950.  Phone 07815 938672 for further details

“Hazel” - 70’ Wooden Narrowboat for sale.  Built by Nursers of Braunston in 1957.  B.S.C. until Sept. 2010, licensed till end Sept. 2008.  Lister 3 cylinder air cooled engine.  Wired for 240 and 12v.  3.5 KVA silent running generator.  New gas cooker and wood burning stove.  Completely fitted out; re-blcked and painted April 2008.  Sale also includes 150’ Greenheart Oak Planking .  £15,500 (negotiable). Tel: 07891 163757.

Very pretty small vintage Dutch Motor Barge ‘RIETVINK’ built 1914 by Gebrd. Zwalsman at Ijlst, Friesland, Holland. (Original meetbrief and builder’s plate held.) 16.3 x 3.35 metres approximately. Used as a cruiser/live-aboard in the UK Thames area and France last 12 years. Hull shell completely overhauled in 2006 including UHP blasting, extensive doubling and coated epoxy paint compositions, ready for extended Continental cruising. First class survey 2006 post refit. New BSS Certificate 2008.
Daf 575 six cylinder diesel driving through new PRM gearbox (2006) to Aquadrive tail shaft unit. 3 KVA auxiliary diesel generator, Mikuni central heating into MORSO solid fuel stove and engine jacket heated calorifier. Macerator WC to holding tank.  One fixed double bunk cabin. Saloon has fold-out double futon and fold-out single bunk. New rear deck canopy. Inventory includes dismantlable Mediterranean awning covering most of the saloon area (well used during one very hot French summer!). Dismantlable wheelhouse with nav table, freezer and seating.  Based West London on good secure residential private wharf mooring subject to rolling short lease terms. Possibility of stunning co-operative freehold residential mooring nearby by negotiation.
Asking price on current mooring: £110,000. Retirement and relocation forces reluctant sale.
Ring John on 020 8568 3693 or 07860 924782 (DBA and RBOA Member). Photograph - See Back Cover (Bottom), plus more at http://picasaweb.google.com/John.Rietvink.