On 1 Dec 2009, at 18:26, Steve Haywood wrote:
> So how much coal could a traditional narrowboat carry?
Gosh, how we still miss Mike Stevens :-{
Depends on the boat - the big Royalty class had larger hulls than the
Joshers, say. I thought the typical load was in the region of 25 tons
on the motor and 30 on the butty, but I haven't dug out my Working
Waterways books to check my memory (which, as we know, is a bit dodgy
these days).
The Mikron song Hard Working Boater says:
"58 ton and three inches of side
When the missus saw it, she nearly blooming died"
This all assumes a fully dredged canal, of course.
All the best
Bruce
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