Lady Teal Hotel Boat

17/08/2024

An amazing sun last night. Struggled to get a decent picture though

16/08/2024

A lovely slightly misty evening.

13/08/2024

Ooh , a sunset

13/08/2024

Well...... we have had an interesting, shocking, worrying, stressful and ultimately successful last few weeks.
We had the boat booked into Bluepoint marine Liverpool to be blasted back to steel and blacked.
Once back to steel we found a small pin hole in the hull, not a good thing. Further investigation revealed it related to a poorly installed black water tank when she was built, over 15 years ago now.
The solution was to cut out some of the hull and weld in patches. Sounds simple?
Far from it. As there would be welding required to put the patch in everything inside nearby needed to be removed to reduce fire risk. Not just moving beds and taking curtains down. Panelling had to be removed and anything flammable got out of the way.
This was my job.
So we started sorting things out, chatted to some surveyors about approach and the yard sourced a coded welder, certified appropriate for the job. As it happens he also lives on a boat so really understands things marine.
We sourced and installed a new black water tank.
All went well, no fires and a great repair. Then we had to put the 3d jigsaw puzzle of panelling back together!
Painted on some new brightwork (the colourful paint on the boat), Gina spruced up all the wood and we took the opportunity to do some other decorating and internal improvements.
As a result Lady Teal is looking great and is in fine health, back cruising on the canal, phew!

13/08/2024

Lovely wildflowers

12/08/2024

What a lovely evening

10/08/2024

Lovely Liverpool evening

01/08/2024

Bought some stuff from Jay Wolfe Metalwork Jaywolfe Metalwork What a can do helpful quality business this is. I placed an on line order and they rang me back to correct parts that were , to them, obviously nonsensical, they were right.
Great products and a huge range of services and capabilities. I would highly recommend.
Great helpful staff

18/07/2024

Blast off and blacking looking good

10/07/2024

Blasting

03/07/2024

Ooh a sunset picture!

30/06/2024

Great sweets

Good morning Bingley! Well, the weather looks a bit kinder today so we have opened about 100 feet from the top of Bingley Five Rise Come along and grab a delicious bag of sweets to enjoy whilst walking along the lovely Leeds and Liverpool Canal or tickle your tastebuds with an award winning tub of Lakes Ice-cream with any sweetie topping for just £3.

19/06/2024

Lovely sunset

15/06/2024

I think this is the wharf used for the mine at what is now Rishton golf course.
I spoke to a boatman who said he drove 2 short boats into here, named after flowers I think, and they were abandoned. You used to be able to see their stern posts.

14/06/2024

A sunset !

14/06/2024

We do have some lovely scenery on the Leeds Liverpool

13/06/2024

Waiting to go into Foulridge Tunnel

10/06/2024

Wow, what fabulous light tonight

05/06/2024

Latest edition of Waterways World has part 2 of our article in it

30/05/2024

Just got to THE BRIDGE at Rodley. 2 boats struggling, something will eventually have to be done about it. Fortunately I have done it a few times now.

28/05/2024

When going over many of these structures it's very easy to be unaware of what lies beneath!
I think these may even be like kilns?

28/05/2024

26/05/2024

Canal & River Trust thanks to the volunteer who cut ask the overgrowth at Holme lock on the Leeds Liverpool. Really good job hugely appreciated.

25/05/2024

Ooh a sunset!

20/05/2024

Seen lots of swans over the years. Cutest is when the cygnets ride on the parents backs.

19/05/2024

We are on a short break right now, so here are some photos from the start of our season. Hope you enjoy them