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Visiting Boats 2006


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Fitzcarraldo

This theatre ship, converted from a former Norwegian ferry, visited Gloucester in July to provide a venue for performances of a show called Noah's Ark as part Gloucester's annual festival.

Albion

This tug-style narrow boat from Brewood with a fine floral display was photographed at the water point in July.

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Otley and Butty

This traditional pair of narrow boats called in at Gloucester in July on their way back from the Saul Canal Festival, where Victoria Hignell and her partner were selling painted canalware and ropework.

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Jubilee

The Inland Waterways Association's narrow boat Jubilee arrived at Gloucester on 27 June on a nationwide tour of the waterways network, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Association.

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Tywardreath

Jeanne Bolton came to Gloucester in June flying the Cornish flag as she comes from Tywardreath in Cornwall.

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Ultima & Thule

Ken Nelson from Selby brought his narrow boat and replica butty to Gloucester in June. The names indicate Ken's idea of ultimate perfection - ultima is the Latin feminine for ultimate and Thule, on the west coast of Greenland, was once the ultimate limit of the known world.

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Lynx

This restored working narrow boat, in the blue and yellow livery of the nationalised British Transport Waterways, visited Gloucester in June.

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Amsterdam

This tug-style narrow boat, belonging to Graham Fisher MBE, visited Gloucester in June.

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Ash and Oak

Rev Martin Reed brought his fine pair of hotel boats to Gloucester in June.

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Odysseus

Bill Wood from Skipton was on his first visit to Gloucester in June. His boat's name is appropriate for a traveller who has a wide range of experiences on his journey.

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Schiehallion

Scotsman John Ross, now based in Derby, was flying his national flag when he visited Gloucester in May. His boat is named after the mountain in Perthshire near where he used to live.

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