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Yes, Oliver, Rob is now, more or less, full time on the barge since getting Heritage Lottery funding to restore it (but still going over the website). He's currently moored at Queenborough (where we met up for a ride on Wednesday), waiting for the right conditions to take it up Milton Creek where the Raybel was originally built 100 years ago next year. Raybel Charters is the community interest company for anyone interested, and,yes, he was flooded but the shop window is still fascinating.
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@Oliver Schick
Best to give Rob Sargent a call before going there. He was restoring a Thames sailing barge a few years ago and not running the shop. The shop's still there, but I don't know if it's actively open--and as Mountgrove Road was one of the streets affected by the recent Finsbury Park flood, I imagine that Rob will have had at least his basement flooded.
https://www.sargentandco.com/contact.htm