Opening up the hull
Cutting out the first access door in the side of the barge With all of the steel we’ve been cutting out, inside the barge, alongside the piles of dirt that…
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Lee lighter
Cut it out
Starting the process of cutting out some steel One major part of the project at this early stage is the cutting out of the two large bulkheads that separate…
Rust removal
Getting to grips with 90 years of rust With a project that is anything else but straight forward, life has recently decided to also put it’s own special spanner in…
Can we dig it?
Can we dig it? Yes, we can! Or, more accurately, yes we need to in order to move the project along. Having held out ’till the end of the year,…
Special delivery
Our Thames barge finally makes it to site So it’s true what they say – time flies when your stress levels are off the scale and you can’t sleep for…
Barge lift
Lifting our barge for its last great journey… So – the scene was set. On the very day that the building-works started on the land where we were to do…
Put yer backs into it!
A few weeks after viewing our potential new home and we returned to clear out some of the debris in the barge to allow our surveyor a chance to check…
We’re Future Sailors…
Having known for a year-and-a-half that we intended to convert a barge into our new home we’ve had plenty of time to watch the market and see any number of…
