Pentargon is a 36ft narrowboat, built in 1973 by Sam Springer, an eccentric and wonderful innovator whose core business in Leicestershire was in fabricating farm gates and domestic heating-oil tanks and live-in containers on stilts. Sam had arrived at Market Harborough in the late 50s, from London where he had worked as a steel fabricator in the dockyards of Poplar and the Greenwich Reach, but he had previous in Market Harborough. He had been shipped out of East London at the outbreak of the war to Market Harborough where he had finished his primary education before returning to London's docklands.
He went into narrowboats because his workshops were near a neglected canal terminal at the wrong end of a neglected canal spur which was re-opened and made famous by Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt.
LTC Rolt was an engineer, an innovator, and a prolific and successful writer of fact and fiction.
Rolt was a formidable organiser who liked to mess about on canals and started the Inland Waterways Association in 1947 so that he could indulge his eccentric interests. He was, famously, ejected from the IWA in 1951 probably for taking his hobby too seriously.
He went into narrowboats because his workshops were near a neglected canal terminal at the wrong end of a neglected canal spur which was re-opened and made famous by Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt.
LTC Rolt was an engineer, an innovator, and a prolific and successful writer of fact and fiction.
Rolt was a formidable organiser who liked to mess about on canals and started the Inland Waterways Association in 1947 so that he could indulge his eccentric interests. He was, famously, ejected from the IWA in 1951 probably for taking his hobby too seriously.
Can one develop a relationship with a boat? Over the years, I have developed an intense and special relationship with mine, learning her eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses and how to live in harmony with them.
Would you carry a relationship with a boat?
Do you bond with people or with things?
People bond with shoes, cars, i-phones
Do you bond with people or with things?
People bond with shoes, cars, i-phones
... and some believe in a spirit world ...
I rely on a spirit residing in timelessness
who guides my hand and often my head.
Her name is Sadbh. ... Say Sive as in Hive ...
you will probably hear more about her
as we sail together into a timeless future
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or hit the menu button or back button
I rely on a spirit residing in timelessness
who guides my hand and often my head.
Her name is Sadbh. ... Say Sive as in Hive ...
you will probably hear more about her
as we sail together into a timeless future
Hyperlink escape system here
or hit the menu button or back button
