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Monday, November 8th, 2021
This blog has not been updated in a long time. I have still been boating, just not really blogging about it. Silhouette is 25 years old and as a group of owners, we’ve decided to sell at the end of 2022. This does not mean I am stopping boating and we’ll probably look for another […]
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
First there was the WWII U-boat narrowboat in Leeds in the docks next to The Royal Armouries, now Liverpool has a Yellow Submarine narrowboat in the Albert docks. What is it with fake submarine conversions of narrowboats? I await the announcement of a fake Nautilus to appear in a city centre docks in the next […]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Following on from my previous post, here is one of those temporary handrails over the lock walkways How does this help?
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Heading out from Norbury tomorrow. Aiming to do a return trip to Kidderminster.
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Silhouette owners held our first AGM at the weekend, well first AGM post-Ownerships. Very well attended with 11 of the 12 shares represented, and as a group it looks like we are all set up for carrying on going forward. Many boats have now had their meetings, whether self organised or now under the umbrella […]
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