Stage 3b · six stories

Boat stories

Rewritten accounts of craft that carried Bolinder power — from UK narrowboats to continental motors and historic working boats.

Drawn from the historic bolinder-engines.info archive and retold in modern prose. Details reflect owner contributions recorded on the old site; they are heritage notes, not surveys.

Bekita Bolinder 1052 installation

Bekita

Bolinder 1052 · South Australia

Jarrah-built motor cruiser on the Murray system, refitted around a 1052 and far from UK canals.

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Secunda lux motor barge

Secunda

Bolinder 1054 · Lux motor 1914

Twenty-five metre Dutch lux motor with a 1949 1054 that stayed in hard working order for a long televised French cruise.

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Narrowboat Newcastle

Newcastle

Bolinder 1053 · 60 ft traditional

UK traditional-style narrowboat documented with engine serial notes and owner photography.

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Historic narrowboat Minnow

Minnow

Bolinder BM9 · Yarwoods 1934

Historic working motor with a long BCN career, later restored with a Bolinder BM9 for rallies and heritage use.

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Narrowboat President

President

FMC steamer → Bolinder years

Famous Fellows Morton & Clayton boat: steam beginnings, then compact Bolinder crude-oil power from 1925.

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Tug Sandbach

Sandbach

Bolinder 1052 · LMS tug heritage

Yarwoods-built maintenance tug later fitted with a 1953 twin-cylinder 1052 and Bolinder gearbox.

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More craft appear only as photographs in the Gallery. Scanned manuals remain offline — see Manuals.