The Calendar - a year's worth of shots.

[andybarton]

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Like many people, I put together a calendar every autumn / Black Friday for the coming year. I must have a dozen or more past ones sitting on a shelf somewhere, as I never throw them away at the end of the year.

This year, for the first time, I have put a theme together for the calendar. Usually, it's a dozen random shots taken over the previous 12 months. This year, is different - in so many ways.

Over the summer and early autumn, we spent as much time as we could walking canal towpaths in England (and a bit of Wales). North, south, east and west we have been and it's been good to collect a dozen or so shots for next year's calendar, all on a theme of those days. In doing so, I have noted that the weather has been pretty good this year  This has been a major factor in being able to get through all of this pandemic lockdown and tiers and general uncertainty. These places have managed to keep me relatively sane.

I don't know how many miles we have walked, but it's quite a lot. 

One day, when our boat comes in, we will buy a narrowboat and do it properly (my wife wants Tickety Boo, below), but until then, we are content in rambling along the towpaths of England.

 

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[FrozenInTime]

Best wishes progressing your waterways future Andy.

I took the economy route with a semi-trad sail-away shell ; all weather features like full double glazing and a covered well deck, with sunroof, necessitated the new build.

Six months before it went in the water, it looked as below. Warm and comfortable by last winter, but was just to difficult to progress much through lockdown, so it will be well into next year before I've finished the fit-out.

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[andybarton]

Lovely. Mrs B is well impressed. Loves the cratch cover 😊

We would have a reverse layout with the bedroom at the prow, so that it’s easy to get the tea from the galley to the helmsman. 

Do you have that shed to keep it in and work on it?

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11 hours ago, andybarton said:

Lovely. Mrs B is well impressed. Loves the cratch cover 😊

We would have a reverse layout with the bedroom at the prow, so that it’s easy to get the tea from the galley to the helmsman. 

Do you have that shed to keep it in and work on it?

The well deck is 6' long so would double as a extra summer bedroom if needed. The rear deck, again 6' long, provides a semi-private open air nook to lie out in and watch the clouds roll over head or to read a book out of the wind. Two stretched decks also help when friends and lots of kids turn up.

Below, a few more boats next to it in the shed at Aintree ; a bit disorganized and nine months late, but they did a great paint job - so smooth that a lot of towpath walkers tap the side and ask is it fiberglass ?

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[andybarton]

Nice.

 

Which one is yours? The green one?

 

We will look out for it on our walks   (Mostly around Anderton, but further afield, as you can see in the calendar shots)

[stuny]

Andy - A beautiful set.  I'll bet the calendar is saleable, perhaps of interest to those of us who follow your LUF books, and perhaps tied to the same charity.

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