CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Wednesday 27 February 2019

I thought I saw it move

So, you're thinking, it may have all that, but I bet one thing that a four mile stretch of litter-strewn canal, crossed by graffitied bridges and lined with decaying factories won't have is a big ugly wide beam restaurant boat...
But that's where you'd be wrong. The only boat I have ever seen moving on this canal, and there were three people on board giving every impression of enjoying a meal.

The LB Hardfeet (what does the 'L' stand for?) is built to the same dimensions (although sadly not the same aesthetic standards) as a Sheffield keel (so presumably has to be careful getting under Bacon Lane bridge) and has a fairly extensive website (although I was itching to rewrite it).

2 comments:

  1. Perhaps LB stands for Lunch Boat? LOL

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  2. “And the name of the boat? The LB is a teddy bear called Little Bear and Hardfeet is a teddy bear with hard feet, both over 40 years old and both belong to the directors.

    Paul and Dorrie's five-year-old, Tally, has named the bar Ginger's Bar after her bear. One of their other boats, Tiny Purple, is also named after a teddy bear.”

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