About Oakley

This is a record of the restoration of narrowboat Oakley, a large Northwich of the Town class of the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co. Ltd. built in 1936 by Yarwoods in Northwich. Her fleet number was 159, she was registered at Rickmansworth number 98 and her gauging number was 12631. She originally had a Russel Newbury DM2 engine. She was originally paired with butty Oxted. She was absorbed into the British Waterways fleet in 1948. If you have any information regarding the history of Oakley then please contact me.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Progress is going well During the week off for christmas I have managed to get all but two of the knees completed and I have also welded up the majority of the hull on the inside. I am now in the process of building integral fuel tanks either side of the engine which the engine will sit on creating a sump in the middle. Once the fuel tanks have been pressure tested i shall clean my engine, a lister HA2, respray it in lister green and mount it in its home. Then I can do the final two knees.

1 comment:

Vince said...

Hi,
Have tried to contact you and have left messages at the boatyard, but as yet no replies, and I cannot see any way to contact you via the blog.
I am the person who originally purchased Oakley from British Waterways.