Sunday 30 September 2012

Some more old boats at Shackerstone

A month ago, as we were coming past Shackerstone for the second time, more historic boats had moored for the festival.

Here are two views of Darley.

No sign of Blossom, though.

On the same stretch of towpath was steam tunnel tug Hasty...

... and FMC boat Empress (renamed from Emperor?)

I'm looking forward to being able to visit these sort of rallies properly by boat one day.

5 comments:

Adam said...

I'm not sure Hasty counts as an old boat -- as it went in the water barely a year ago...

Halfie said...

Oops - I was a bit, er, hasty there! Perhaps that's why I couldn't find out much about it.

Adam said...

There's everything you could ever want to know here: http://www.tunneltug.org.uk/

Vallypee said...

Fabuolous photos, Halfie! The first one is particularly impressive.

Halfie said...

VallyP? I'll have to get used to calling you Val now! Thanks for your comment.