"Lilith" is our oldest boat, originally Lloyds & Lloyds number 9, built in 1901 for working around their Coombeswood ironworks at Halesowen. She was given the name of the mythical goddess, demoness, original woman by an ex girlfriend. I rebuilt her between 1974 and 1983 and she's given many years of service, latterly on recycling trips which finished with the pandemic in 2020. To be honest, she was getting pretty rough by then. The stern end, restored in pine in the 1970s, was in need of rebuilding again.
It would have been nice to get on with this, but lack of volunteers post covid, and me being poorly, meant that we were only just getting the basics done.
Things are looking up now. Lilith is still just used to store firewood, but I think a major renovation is getting closer.
