tarboat's photos with the keyword: butty

This is the River Class butty Yeo, built by EC Jones & Son of Brentford in 1959 for British Transport Waterways, a division of the British Transport Commission. The River Class boats were a new design of narrowboat, designed to be cheap and simple to construct and to have 20% extra carrying capacity over more traditional boats. They were built of welded steel sections and used blue glass fibre hatch covers instead of cloth covers.

This shows why wooden boats and museums don't often have a happy ending. I have so many memories of this boat from evenings spent in the back cabin drinking tea, to the days when it was named Chief and kept at Styperson Wharf by the 1st Hazel Grove Scouts. It was saved from Styperson by James Hewitt for an abortive attempt to add a butty to his trip boat business. After surviving for so long it is heartbreaking to see what has happened once it arrived at a museum.