Joshing About Part 2

3 pairs of FMC boats heading North on the Grand Union Canal. The boats are:
1928 Yarwoods built motor Kestrel with around 18 tonnes on board
1911 Saltley horse boat Vienna
1927 Yarwoods motor Jaguar
1924 Saltley built butty Fazeley
1928 Yarwoods motor Kangaroo
1894 Saltley built horse boat Australia

[@BillyCosmosis]

Superb!

[@cody481]

Thank you

[@savie62]

Whats the difference between horse boat and a butty boat ?

[@mykaskin]

That's a good question. A horse boat obviously was built to be pulled by a horse. When motored narrowboats came along it was better to use them to pull them instead of using a horse. The the horse boats could carry more than a motor boat. Travelling in a pair, either with another horse boat(as done with large families on wide waters) or a motor, you were buddied up (which is the likely source of the term butty). When new boats were built they were built in pairs with an unpowered boat, however it was never built to be towed by a horse boat, so we're.always called a butty.

[@savie62]

@@mykaskin so basically just depends on when they was built so early 19 century was most likely a butty boat anythin before motor boat or steam horse boat